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Jamie Taylor
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Thanks to the @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social team for including Studio Electrophonique by Jamie Taylor (@coldtapfilms.bsky.social) in their Books of 2025 list. #booksky
whiterabbitbks.bsky.social White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 27d
We announced our books and records of 2025 earlier this week, in no particular order, but now we're proud to reveal our #1 picks: Jesus Christ Kinski by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social, and Liminal, by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe. Sending thanks and love to all authors and artists on the lists!
Benjamin Myers Jesus Christ Kinski BLOOMSBURY Deranged and mesmerising. For those who have lost faith that the novel can do new things; for those who want to read a novel that is as close to experiencing watching a Herzog film as it is possible to get on the page, Jesus Christ Kinski is a masterpiece of suffocation and an unrelenting trip into the monomania of an unhinged and dangerous and damaged outsider artist. It restored our faith that fiction can still go to places where other art forms fear to tread. Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe Liminal VERVE Have we started to take Eno for granted? Perhaps this, the last in a magnificent trilogy of releases with Wolfe in 2025, has been slightly overlooked because it was the third to arrive, late in the year. Melancholy and elegiac chamber pop of the most haunting kind, Liminal has echoes of Spacemen 3 in their tender bluesy iteration. Perhaps Eno’s collaboration with the visionary artist Wolfe is his most exciting for almost fifty years, since his work with Cluster. Proof that some of the best avant garde music is affirmative, melodic and completely transcendent.
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Cheers for the nod for Studio Electrophonique. I appreciate it.
whiterabbitbks.bsky.social White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 27d
We announced our books and records of 2025 earlier this week, in no particular order, but now we're proud to reveal our #1 picks: Jesus Christ Kinski by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social, and Liminal, by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe. Sending thanks and love to all authors and artists on the lists!
Benjamin Myers Jesus Christ Kinski BLOOMSBURY Deranged and mesmerising. For those who have lost faith that the novel can do new things; for those who want to read a novel that is as close to experiencing watching a Herzog film as it is possible to get on the page, Jesus Christ Kinski is a masterpiece of suffocation and an unrelenting trip into the monomania of an unhinged and dangerous and damaged outsider artist. It restored our faith that fiction can still go to places where other art forms fear to tread. Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe Liminal VERVE Have we started to take Eno for granted? Perhaps this, the last in a magnificent trilogy of releases with Wolfe in 2025, has been slightly overlooked because it was the third to arrive, late in the year. Melancholy and elegiac chamber pop of the most haunting kind, Liminal has echoes of Spacemen 3 in their tender bluesy iteration. Perhaps Eno’s collaboration with the visionary artist Wolfe is his most exciting for almost fifty years, since his work with Cluster. Proof that some of the best avant garde music is affirmative, melodic and completely transcendent.
December 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Thanks @teddyjamieson.bsky.social at @heraldscotland.bsky.social for including 'Studio Electrophonique' by Jamie Taylor (@coldtapfilms.bsky.social) in their best music books of 2025.
Full list here: www.pressreader.com/uk/the-heral... #booksky
December 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Thanks to the team at Resident Music in #Brighton for making Studio Electrophonique by @coldtapfilms.bsky.social one of their Books of 2025!

View the full list here: www.resident-music.com/collection/b... #booksky
Books Of 2025 - Resident Music
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November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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We have music books for every budget this Christmas, from paperbacks for stocking fillers by @coldtapfilms.bsky.social & @djpaulette.bsky.social, to coffee table books like the Island Book of Records Volume 2. All 40% OFF in our sale until December 23rd, but order ASAP for Xmas delivery. #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Tickets here: showroomcinema.org.uk/book-frame?e...
November 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Plugging the book for the pre-Christmas punters this Saturday at St Giles Church at Camberwell. Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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This is today!

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October 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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If you missed out on 'Studio Electrophonique' events earlier this year, then happily @coldtapfilms.bsky.social is on the road again this month, with events at @otsfestival.bsky.social #Sheffield, TOWN Festival #Halifax and London.
Tickets & info here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/ #booksky
October 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Join @coldtapfilms.bsky.social in #Peckham later this month as he shares the amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain’s most beloved bands, including Pulp and The Human League.

25th October
Tickets still available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...
#London
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Friday teatime special!

Tickets here: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/studi...
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Come down for a pint and an outside chance of some cultural badinage.
manchesterup.bsky.social Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Sep 24
Don't miss TOWN Festival #Halifax in October, author @coldtapfilms.bsky.social will be in conversation with Douglas Field, to unpack the amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain’s most beloved bands.
Tickets: www.seetickets.com/event/jamie-...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Book and film events in October
@manchesterup.bsky.social

Come and have a listen to the same old patter
September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Me and our Vince. Come and have a chat.
manchesterup.bsky.social Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Sep 2
We're delighted to have two author events at this year's South-East London BookFest!

25th Oct - @coldtapfilms.bsky.social at Peckham Levels

8th Nov - Vince Cable at Peckhamplex

Tickets & info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...
#London #WhatsOn #booksky
September 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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We have two events at @otsfestival.bsky.social this year!

17th October
Studio Electrophonique – @coldtapfilms.bsky.social with @djdebgrant.bsky.social: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/studi...

19th October
Folklore – @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/folkl...
otsfestival.bsky.social Off the Shelf Festival of Words @otsfestival.bsky.social · Aug 15
The wait is over! 🎉 The new programme for @sheffielduni.bsky.social Off the Shelf Festival of Words is out!

Highlights: ✍️ Poet Lemn Sissay 🏰 Historian Lucy Worsley 🎭 and the brilliant Alison Steadman and many, many more!

Book your tickets👇
bit.ly/3UZOuGL
August 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Don't miss @coldtapfilms.bsky.social at the upcoming TOWN Festival in #Halifax as he unpacks the amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain’s most beloved bands.

Tickets on sale now: www.seetickets.com/event/jamie-...
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
#booksky
August 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Head to BBC Sounds to listen back to Jamie Taylor (@coldtapfilms.bsky.social) on his book 'Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, from the Human League to Pulp' on @bbc6music.bsky.social with @laurenlaverne.bsky.social: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

'Studio Electrophonique' is out now!
BBC Radio 6 Music - Lauren Laverne, Words around book Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, from the Human League to Pulp
Words From Jamie Taylor around book Studio Electrophonique.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Thanks to everyone who turned up for a foreign legion-style ‘march or die’ style walking tour of my books hot and cold spots. Put your feet up.
June 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Great to be involved in Sound Affects last night in Brighton with @liaminscoejones.bsky.social and Erin James. Cheers to Jak for organising and @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social for flogging a few more books.
June 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Mighty grateful that the book’s gone down well. If reading the book has made you want to see me point at Sheffield buildings, join me on Sunday 15th June at 2pm for a free walking tour organised by @labiblioteka.bsky.social

Only 9 spots left! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

labiblioteka.co/event/a-walk...
May 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Thanks to Mal, Adi, Travis and the Horse Hospital for a great do last night in London.
May 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Don't miss author @coldtapfilms.bsky.social and other guests at the next Sound Affects event in #Brighton!

Sound Affects is a night of talks about music and subcultures, how sound affects us and how music changes the world.

Tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/sound-affect...
May 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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'This potty, audacious gem is defiantly atypical, more a dystopian novel, odyssey or psychogeography treatise than an off-the-peg music biography.'

Mark Hodkinson's review of 'Studio Electrophonique' by @coldtapfilms.bsky.social in the latest issue of Rock'n'Reel (RNR) magazine. #booksky
May 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Author @coldtapfilms.bsky.social tells NME about new book 'Studio Electrophonique', the DIY maverick that could have stepped out of a Wes Anderson film, and the Steel City artists carrying that same spirit today: www.nme.com/news/music/s...

Out now, available from bookshops & online! #booksky #nme
Inside the "Wallace & Gromit-style" DIY council house studio that bred Sheffield's weirdest stars
Author Jamie Taylor on 'Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, From The Human League To Pulp' and the Wes Anderson-esque DIY maverick who built it
www.nme.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Nice one Andy. It means a lot.
andytattersall.bsky.social Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · May 8
I've written a review of @coldtapfilms.bsky.social superb Studio Electophonique book for @nowthenmag.bsky.social about Sheffield's legendary studio run by Ken Patten and the embryonic emergence of Sheffield's electronic music scene. It is a wonderful read.
nowthenmag.bsky.social Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · May 8
"There’s always been an edge to Sheffield’s music scene... yet, as we find out via Jamie Taylor’s (@coldtapfilms.bsky.social) excellent investigative work, a large part of those musical foundations were laid in a suburban house in the early 1960s"

@andytattersall.bsky.social ✍️ #Sheffield
May 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM