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House of Harley
@houseofharley.bsky.social
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Purveyors of comics to amuse and confuse since 1987. Home of the annual anthology UGLY MUG, along with a growing range of art books. Member of Mystery Dick and Pestrepeller bands. Tried and failed to join The Fall. https://houseofharley.net
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No ifs some butts: elegantly minimal, slightly ghostly nudes in blue. An expanded version of a blog post from September 2020 now available in our Patreon boudoir.
www.patreon.com/posts/no-ifs...
#art #drawing #nudes #minimalism #sketchbooks
December 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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soundprojector.bsky.social
No new radio show last week, but I was in the ResFM studio yesterday for a rare live broadcast, playing some unusual vinyl LPs.
www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/12/07/f...
Forest of Wonders – The Sound Projector
www.thesoundprojector.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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As well as posting regular new drawings to our Patreon clubs, we're going to be sharing enhanced versions of old posts and giving the drawings that populate our notoriously busy sketchbook spreads the opportunity to breathe.
www.patreon.com/posts/headsc...
#art #drawing #sketchbooks #faces #people
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Look what I just saw in a bookshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania @acmedarryl.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Stand still, comedians! The HoH pays tribute in pencil sketch form to a daft and irresponsible social media phenomenon. See our 18+ Patreon boudoir...
www.patreon.com/posts/stand-...
#art #drawing #pencildrawing #comedy #socialmedia
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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skippyvinyls.bsky.social
New House Of All album now on pre-order with bonus CD on Bandcamp
houseofall.bandcamp.com/album/inklings
Inklings, by HOUSE Of ALL
14 track album
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December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Fascinating chat and insight into a part of music’s history I knew nothing about. I like the guy’s ’well I just got on with it’ attitude to being a record producer, setting up record labels, organising legal and illegal gigs and crossing the Berlin Wall, as if what else would anyone have done?
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This week, we’re delighted to welcome Mark Reeder to the show. The Berlin-based producer talks us through his journey from Manchester to Berlin, putting on illegal gigs in the GDR, smuggling East German uniforms back to the West, and encountering The Fall along the way. (1/2)
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Stand and stir: enlarged from a page of dance and movement studies. For more, join our new Patreon club, for a paltry £2 a month.
www.patreon.com/posts/stand-...
#art #drawing #movement #dancing #motion #figurestudies
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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weaverwerx.bsky.social
Hey Riga cinema folks! Don't forget that @kinobize.bsky.social is screening some amazing Dario Argento classics starting next week! I already have tickets for TENEBRAE, DEEP RED and THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE!
#RigaKino #WatchMoviesinaTheater #DarioArgento

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Kino Bize
Festivālu favorīti un kino klasika
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December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Here we go: first 2026 live show announcement! 📣

Sparks play at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London on June 12th!

Tickets go on sale Friday, December 5 at 10am.

🔗: www.gigantic.com/live-at-chel...

Sparks Fan Club presale starts Wednesday, December 3 at 10am.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The House of Harley, like any building of military significance, has a 24-hour security detail prowling its perimeter day and night. To see them strutting their stuff, sign up to our new Patreon club.
www.patreon.com/posts/on-gua...
#art #drawing #guards #security #uniform
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Free Jazz - “A music both liberated and yet wholly indebted to the learned techniques of its tradition.”

Thurston Moore’s new book attempts to give people a way into one of music’s most forbidding genres. All power to his elbow!
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
#music #jazz #freejazz
‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music?
Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
houseofharley.bsky.social
Bewitched and bothered: see the link below for a full page of facial expression studies in pencil. Inspired by a certain beloved '60s sitcom actress... although not in any sort of accurate-likeness-type way.
houseofharley.net/bewitched-an...
#art #drawing #people #faces #women #elizabethmontgomery
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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'In the video, the pair discuss the disastrous 1998 tour of America: "“All any of us were asking of Mark was to stand on that stage for an hour, and sing the songs. That was all we asked of him."'

Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook

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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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How High the Moon - nothing has the unearthly sound of Les Paul & Mary Ford's hit. All the same, I hadn't appreciated that LP was such a Da Vinci-like innovator. He invented overdubbing, sketched out an idea for a synthesiser years before the Moog, + lots more...
500songs.com/podcast/how-... #music
Episode 9: “How High The Moon” by Les Paul and Mary Ford
A look at changes in music technology in the forties and fifties.
500songs.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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The Bugle features comic strips in a vintage northern British vein. The creation of small-press artists John Bagnall and Phil Bartle, with guests Ed Pinsent, Marc Baines & a new HoH character, Lady Backenforth. Don’t be frugal, buy the Bugle!
houseofharley.net/dont-be-frug...
#comics #Britishcomics
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
houseofharley.bsky.social
Thoughtful #battlefest discussion about 'woke art'. Yes, there has always been political art but many in the art world today say they see art as a means to a political end. With that attitude, chances are you'll make bad art that alienates people
artsfirst.substack.com/p/what-does-... #art #politics
What does post-woke art look like?
How will a post-woke age affect the output of the contemporary art world? What role should artists take in the ‘vibe shift’? Will new styles emerge to greet this new political landscape – or did the r...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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soundprojector.bsky.social
Yes, I've got a table at Thought Bubble this coming weekend, but you'll NEVER FIND ME!
@thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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This week on Oh! Brother, we are delighted to welcome Ian Broudie to the show. The Lightning Seeds frontman and renowned producer talks us through his early days in Big in Japan, and his production work with the Bunnymen, The Coral, The Zutons and The Fall (1/2)
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Take out: a tribute to all those who have their food delivered. See our latest blog post: houseofharley.net/take-out/
#art #figuredrawing #food #takeaways #movement #nudes #elegance
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Don't be frugle, buy The Bugle! Chuffed to have a story in 'Slackdale's Super Comic for Grown-Up Boys and Girls'. It will be available at Thought Bubble and launches with live music and original art next Friday (14th Nov) at Consett Heart Heritage & Arts Centre.
#britishcomics #comics #thebugle
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Some intriguing electronic music and a great acoustic Greek tune are amongst the mixtape choices of Eleni Poulou, who has been very busy and productive since leaving The Fall...
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Arts First Podcast live at the Battle of Ideas: artists talk from personal experience about modern-day censorship and the different forms it takes - often coming from within the arts sector itself.
artsfirst.substack.com/p/arts-first...
#art #freespeech #politics #battlefest
Arts First live at the Battle of Ideas - 'Are the arts too politicised?'
Listen now | Live edition in which we explore the crisis of freedom of expression in the arts and ask how artists survive – and even prosper – in an age when political activism has proliferated within...
artsfirst.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
houseofharley.bsky.social
Playing the field: the House of Harley will be back in 2026 with a new issue of Ugly Mug and lots more art goodies. In the meantime, enjoy a kickabout. Full view of the pitch at...
houseofharley.net/playing-the-...
#art #drawing #sketchbooks #football #sport #action #movement #men
September 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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That cat won't jump: a portrait from a recent train journey in London. See the full set on the blog.
houseofharley.net/that-cat-won...
#art #drawing #people #urbansketching #faces #LondonUnderground #travel #commuters
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM