Lulu Allison
@luluallison.bsky.social
Artist, maker, author. MDANT.
Happenstance and holy smoke
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Lulu Allison
@luluallison.bsky.social
· Oct 9
Alert! Alert! Freaks and Weirdos and Scary Ideas! - Dorset Eye
In a mindless scroll through social media yesterday, due, I hasten to add, to a friend’s indignation rather than my own preferences, I accidentally noticed ex-footballer Joey Barton. Joey Barton, foun...
dorseteye.com
Here is a piece I wrote about banned books.
Featuring none of my favourite people - Joey Barton, Rishi Sunak, Bro-normative and his best female-coded-services gal
And some of my favourite things - libraries, dangerous ideas, unthinkable kinks, spanking flamboyance
dorseteye.com/alert-alert-...
Featuring none of my favourite people - Joey Barton, Rishi Sunak, Bro-normative and his best female-coded-services gal
And some of my favourite things - libraries, dangerous ideas, unthinkable kinks, spanking flamboyance
dorseteye.com/alert-alert-...
Here is the Subpop single of Crystalator. I loved playing this live. One occasionally bent note. A kid who was a fan of the hot pot chilli dippers once told me it was indulgent to have a bass line of only one note. Wunderbar.
youtu.be/37O88ZNaOBc
youtu.be/37O88ZNaOBc
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Here is the Subpop single of Crystalator. I loved playing this live. One occasionally bent note. A kid who was a fan of the hot pot chilli dippers once told me it was indulgent to have a bass line of only one note. Wunderbar.
youtu.be/37O88ZNaOBc
youtu.be/37O88ZNaOBc
Review of a film about my friend Shayne, with a link to the first Subpop-released Dimmer single, when I was bass player, and did the cover art. Great film, but Shayne's book is even better.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Life in One Chord review – the Dunedin sound through the eyes of a music maverick
Based on a memoir by Straitjacket Fits frontman Shayne Carter, this documentary maps out the New Zealand town that birthed an indie movement
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Review of a film about my friend Shayne, with a link to the first Subpop-released Dimmer single, when I was bass player, and did the cover art. Great film, but Shayne's book is even better.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
One very poor phone snap of the full moon.
One quite nice phone snap of moonlight in the church yard.
An enjoyable walk in the dark after a day stuck inside working.
One quite nice phone snap of moonlight in the church yard.
An enjoyable walk in the dark after a day stuck inside working.
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
One very poor phone snap of the full moon.
One quite nice phone snap of moonlight in the church yard.
An enjoyable walk in the dark after a day stuck inside working.
One quite nice phone snap of moonlight in the church yard.
An enjoyable walk in the dark after a day stuck inside working.
What the hell, The Olden Days?
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What the hell, The Olden Days?
I made a poor choice.
Instead of eating pie and watching a detective drama in my dressing gown, I carried on working and listened to the football. #LEECHE
Instead of eating pie and watching a detective drama in my dressing gown, I carried on working and listened to the football. #LEECHE
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I made a poor choice.
Instead of eating pie and watching a detective drama in my dressing gown, I carried on working and listened to the football. #LEECHE
Instead of eating pie and watching a detective drama in my dressing gown, I carried on working and listened to the football. #LEECHE
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Bluemoose Books of the year!
The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social - short listed - The Orwell Prize
The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Beast by @luluallison.bsky.social
Celeste by Colette Snowden
Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers.
Here's Hetha in a hat!
The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social - short listed - The Orwell Prize
The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Beast by @luluallison.bsky.social
Celeste by Colette Snowden
Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers.
Here's Hetha in a hat!
December 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Bluemoose Books of the year!
The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social - short listed - The Orwell Prize
The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Beast by @luluallison.bsky.social
Celeste by Colette Snowden
Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers.
Here's Hetha in a hat!
The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social - short listed - The Orwell Prize
The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Beast by @luluallison.bsky.social
Celeste by Colette Snowden
Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers.
Here's Hetha in a hat!
Drawn by a young friend
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Drawn by a young friend
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Thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social @iancritchley.bsky.social @adamjfarrer.bsky.social and Madeline for these kind Saltburn words and you can pick it up free shipping @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social #IndieBlackFriday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/salt...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/salt...
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social @iancritchley.bsky.social @adamjfarrer.bsky.social and Madeline for these kind Saltburn words and you can pick it up free shipping @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social #IndieBlackFriday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/salt...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/salt...
Niche, yes, but solid
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Niche, yes, but solid
I like this bell with a bird.
From my maker page www.instagram.com/seventyseven...
From my maker page www.instagram.com/seventyseven...
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I like this bell with a bird.
From my maker page www.instagram.com/seventyseven...
From my maker page www.instagram.com/seventyseven...
I’ve started making custom hand-made, glazed ceramic bells - choose your own name or short message
www.instagram.com/reel/DRh-dIT...
www.instagram.com/reel/DRh-dIT...
Seventy Seven Seas on Instagram: "Customised bells - choose a name or short message. They are £65 each. Each one completely unique, hand-built and hand painted glazed and fired ceramics
#handbuilt #ha...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I’ve started making custom hand-made, glazed ceramic bells - choose your own name or short message
www.instagram.com/reel/DRh-dIT...
www.instagram.com/reel/DRh-dIT...
I really hate lots of ‘acting’ in audiobook narration. It’s a book, not a film or a play. Being read to well is so very adequate. Realistic tears, swamping fear, great gouts of accents all spoil it. I don’t read to myself like that. Stop it.
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I really hate lots of ‘acting’ in audiobook narration. It’s a book, not a film or a play. Being read to well is so very adequate. Realistic tears, swamping fear, great gouts of accents all spoil it. I don’t read to myself like that. Stop it.
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I love publishing day.
Today we publish
ORCA & BIRD by Anna Chilvers and launch tonight at Hebden Bridge library 7pm
It is her 4th novel with Bluemoose.
Marvelous.
Today we publish
ORCA & BIRD by Anna Chilvers and launch tonight at Hebden Bridge library 7pm
It is her 4th novel with Bluemoose.
Marvelous.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I love publishing day.
Today we publish
ORCA & BIRD by Anna Chilvers and launch tonight at Hebden Bridge library 7pm
It is her 4th novel with Bluemoose.
Marvelous.
Today we publish
ORCA & BIRD by Anna Chilvers and launch tonight at Hebden Bridge library 7pm
It is her 4th novel with Bluemoose.
Marvelous.
This is a cracking book
The splendid @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social have reduced the price of the AWARD WINNING audiobook of All My Precious Madness on their site, for a short while, to celebrate winning the best fiction Speakie on Monday: www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/a...
www.spiracleaudiobooks.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is a cracking book
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The splendid @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social have reduced the price of the AWARD WINNING audiobook of All My Precious Madness on their site, for a short while, to celebrate winning the best fiction Speakie on Monday: www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/a...
www.spiracleaudiobooks.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The splendid @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social have reduced the price of the AWARD WINNING audiobook of All My Precious Madness on their site, for a short while, to celebrate winning the best fiction Speakie on Monday: www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/a...
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There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
All going swimmingly at the Bridge 💙💙💙
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
All going swimmingly at the Bridge 💙💙💙
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That voice, good grief. Will never forget when he was on Buzzcocks and reduced Phil Jupitus to tears with one quick blast of his voice.
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
That voice, good grief. Will never forget when he was on Buzzcocks and reduced Phil Jupitus to tears with one quick blast of his voice.
My latest crop of bell people for sale. I really like the grumpy one with the cow - I think her job must be seeing off bad vibes and protecting against milk souring. £49 each - can be customised for a little more
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My latest crop of bell people for sale. I really like the grumpy one with the cow - I think her job must be seeing off bad vibes and protecting against milk souring. £49 each - can be customised for a little more
This is the robin that comes into Pierre’s painting studio and steals his mashed potato
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is the robin that comes into Pierre’s painting studio and steals his mashed potato
Just had an email from Bandcamp about this ‘new release’ which is actually a very old release - I know because I’m playing bass and did the cover artwork.
dimmer-new-zealand.bandcamp.com/album/crysta...
dimmer-new-zealand.bandcamp.com/album/crysta...
Crystalator, by Dimmer
2 track album
dimmer-new-zealand.bandcamp.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Just had an email from Bandcamp about this ‘new release’ which is actually a very old release - I know because I’m playing bass and did the cover artwork.
dimmer-new-zealand.bandcamp.com/album/crysta...
dimmer-new-zealand.bandcamp.com/album/crysta...
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My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.