Nick J. Brown
@northernmailman.bsky.social
Writer of To Rise in the Dark (2024) and Hunter (2025)
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.”
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.”
Pinned
30 years after a teenage band imploded, their late singer's daughter leads the surviving members on a booze-fuelled odyssey through Manchester in search of a secret they would rather remained buried…
Available in ebook and paperback.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DD...
Available in ebook and paperback.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DD...
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
Happy Gazpacho Soup Day to those what celebrates.
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Happy Gazpacho Soup Day to those what celebrates.
Should be at the My Bloody Valentine gig tonight but am over the wrong side of the Pennines for a wedding and staying at a hotel that doesn’t do a cooked breakfast.
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Should be at the My Bloody Valentine gig tonight but am over the wrong side of the Pennines for a wedding and staying at a hotel that doesn’t do a cooked breakfast.
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
Welcome to publication day‼️
Celebrate wildly by buying #PowerChords & dancing in torn sheets in the rain.
‘A life in music. Beautifully told’ @memorialdevice.
‘The power of music & ideas, pouring in to teenage life’.
#music #books #punk #newwave
Buy at your fave indie bookshop or online.
Celebrate wildly by buying #PowerChords & dancing in torn sheets in the rain.
‘A life in music. Beautifully told’ @memorialdevice.
‘The power of music & ideas, pouring in to teenage life’.
#music #books #punk #newwave
Buy at your fave indie bookshop or online.
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Welcome to publication day‼️
Celebrate wildly by buying #PowerChords & dancing in torn sheets in the rain.
‘A life in music. Beautifully told’ @memorialdevice.
‘The power of music & ideas, pouring in to teenage life’.
#music #books #punk #newwave
Buy at your fave indie bookshop or online.
Celebrate wildly by buying #PowerChords & dancing in torn sheets in the rain.
‘A life in music. Beautifully told’ @memorialdevice.
‘The power of music & ideas, pouring in to teenage life’.
#music #books #punk #newwave
Buy at your fave indie bookshop or online.
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
Sucker for books about fictional bands. This is more about what it meant to be in a band, looking back thirty years. I liked how Pete Moran moved through the book like a ghost. His presence was felt whenever he was ‘on page’. Mark E Moon was standout. @northernmailman.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Sucker for books about fictional bands. This is more about what it meant to be in a band, looking back thirty years. I liked how Pete Moran moved through the book like a ghost. His presence was felt whenever he was ‘on page’. Mark E Moon was standout. @northernmailman.bsky.social
Strangeways Here We Come.
Morrissey after his recent arrest for sarcasm, Paul Morley waits for comment…
Morrissey after his recent arrest for sarcasm, Paul Morley waits for comment…
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Strangeways Here We Come.
Morrissey after his recent arrest for sarcasm, Paul Morley waits for comment…
Morrissey after his recent arrest for sarcasm, Paul Morley waits for comment…
🎶 Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing,
I wanta get into it, man, you know,
Like a, like a sex machine, man,
Movin' and doin' it, you know,
Can I count it off?
One, two, three, four! 🎶
I wanta get into it, man, you know,
Like a, like a sex machine, man,
Movin' and doin' it, you know,
Can I count it off?
One, two, three, four! 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🎶 Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing,
I wanta get into it, man, you know,
Like a, like a sex machine, man,
Movin' and doin' it, you know,
Can I count it off?
One, two, three, four! 🎶
I wanta get into it, man, you know,
Like a, like a sex machine, man,
Movin' and doin' it, you know,
Can I count it off?
One, two, three, four! 🎶
For the morning shift…
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
For the morning shift…
🎶 My Rose has left me,
I’m in a mood 🎶
I’m in a mood 🎶
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🎶 My Rose has left me,
I’m in a mood 🎶
I’m in a mood 🎶
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
‘HOWAY LADS, IT’S FRIDAY…’ 🍺 🎶 🕺 🍺
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
‘HOWAY LADS, IT’S FRIDAY…’ 🍺 🎶 🕺 🍺
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
Watching #TheCricket (no spoilers, please) and my main takeaway is that the TNT commentary team are absolutely dire. Not one of them can carry a broadcast.
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Watching #TheCricket (no spoilers, please) and my main takeaway is that the TNT commentary team are absolutely dire. Not one of them can carry a broadcast.
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
The Fall - Twister
Ramble, grinning, normally, rambled,
In my ear hole was day of lunacy...
youtu.be/U06Wxc-oX-s?...
#FallFriday
Ramble, grinning, normally, rambled,
In my ear hole was day of lunacy...
youtu.be/U06Wxc-oX-s?...
#FallFriday
The Fall - Twister (Peel Session)
YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Redux
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Fall - Twister
Ramble, grinning, normally, rambled,
In my ear hole was day of lunacy...
youtu.be/U06Wxc-oX-s?...
#FallFriday
Ramble, grinning, normally, rambled,
In my ear hole was day of lunacy...
youtu.be/U06Wxc-oX-s?...
#FallFriday
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
I’m fit and working again. Look down the road in the sun. I make a path through a forty strong gang. #Fallfriday
Fit and Working Again (Live)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I’m fit and working again. Look down the road in the sun. I make a path through a forty strong gang. #Fallfriday
Reposted by Nick J. Brown
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Gutted about Mani
RIP
RIP
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Gutted about Mani
RIP
RIP
@heykidsshop.bsky.social I don't know if you've seen this yet but your Kurious Orange diorama gets a mention on this at 13:23.
thequietus.com/news/watch-s...
thequietus.com/news/watch-s...
Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall's Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook | The Quietus
First published in 2015, Steve Hanley’s memoir The Big Midweek (co-written with Olivia Piekarski) details his 19 years as the ‘backbone’ of The Fall. Perhaps second only to Mark E. Smith himself when ...
thequietus.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
@heykidsshop.bsky.social I don't know if you've seen this yet but your Kurious Orange diorama gets a mention on this at 13:23.
thequietus.com/news/watch-s...
thequietus.com/news/watch-s...
A brief return to Salford.
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A brief return to Salford.
The remnants of a Tony Wilson/Factory exhibition at Smolensky Gallery.
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The remnants of a Tony Wilson/Factory exhibition at Smolensky Gallery.