Justin Hopper
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social
Writer. Uncanny Landscapes podcast. Belbury Poly - The Path. Obsolete Spells. Chanctonbury Rings. The Old Weird Albion. https://linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion
RIP. What a talent.
October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
RIP. What a talent.
September in london VERY different from august tourist season.
September 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
September in london VERY different from august tourist season.
The Great Satanic Swindle at Black Shuck Festival in Bungay, Suffolk, on the 1st of August. #Folkhorror #truecrime #blackshuck #folktale #tellinstories #urbanfolktale
tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck
tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck
July 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Great Satanic Swindle at Black Shuck Festival in Bungay, Suffolk, on the 1st of August. #Folkhorror #truecrime #blackshuck #folktale #tellinstories #urbanfolktale
tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck
tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck
Fantastic new record from Pneumatic Tubes - Jesse from Midlake, Mercury Rev & Belbury Poly. Order now from Belbury Music. Includes guest slots from Meg Baird, Joao Kyron, Tim Midlake, Belbury Poly & more (plus my liner notes…)
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July 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fantastic new record from Pneumatic Tubes - Jesse from Midlake, Mercury Rev & Belbury Poly. Order now from Belbury Music. Includes guest slots from Meg Baird, Joao Kyron, Tim Midlake, Belbury Poly & more (plus my liner notes…)
belburymusic.greedbag.com/buy/runners-...
belburymusic.greedbag.com/buy/runners-...
Iron Sheik and Hulk Hogan at the Coldplay gig.
July 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Iron Sheik and Hulk Hogan at the Coldplay gig.
Everybody gettin pranged amidships.
July 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Everybody gettin pranged amidships.
Fri 1st Aug I’ll be performing THE GREAT SATANIC SWINDLE at Black Shuck Festival in Bungay, Suffolk. Come to Waveney Valley - officially the most pagan place in Britain - for a helluva lineup; tix for my gig here:
tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck
tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck
June 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Fri 1st Aug I’ll be performing THE GREAT SATANIC SWINDLE at Black Shuck Festival in Bungay, Suffolk. Come to Waveney Valley - officially the most pagan place in Britain - for a helluva lineup; tix for my gig here:
tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck
tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck
Real Magic Weekend in Wendover (40 mins from Marylebone station, londoners!) - I'll be doing The Great Satanic Swindle as part of a @stoneclub.bsky.social Sunday with Lally MacBeth and Sacha Coward at the bookshop - a few tix remain wegottickets.com/event/658928/
May 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Real Magic Weekend in Wendover (40 mins from Marylebone station, londoners!) - I'll be doing The Great Satanic Swindle as part of a @stoneclub.bsky.social Sunday with Lally MacBeth and Sacha Coward at the bookshop - a few tix remain wegottickets.com/event/658928/
Clouds, wine, food on the grill, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick playing.
May 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Clouds, wine, food on the grill, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick playing.
This ad fed to me for a bunnymen tribute band is relevant.
May 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This ad fed to me for a bunnymen tribute band is relevant.
Even in this case - As always with these awful people - the onus is on the victim to take action after the fact, not the creators of the systems or platform to prevent it.
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Even in this case - As always with these awful people - the onus is on the victim to take action after the fact, not the creators of the systems or platform to prevent it.
I couldn’t remember but looked it up - I loved all these books:
April 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I couldn’t remember but looked it up - I loved all these books:
New episode of Uncanny Landscapes up now - interview with folk-music duo Stick in the Wheel about their psychogeographic delve into London through song, A Thousand Pokes: uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/stick-in-t...
March 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New episode of Uncanny Landscapes up now - interview with folk-music duo Stick in the Wheel about their psychogeographic delve into London through song, A Thousand Pokes: uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/stick-in-t...
‘How can we get our brand - y’know, X - into this image?’
‘We could put it … below the checkmark?’
‘Excellent. Done. No further ideas needed…’
‘We could put it … below the checkmark?’
‘Excellent. Done. No further ideas needed…’
March 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
‘How can we get our brand - y’know, X - into this image?’
‘We could put it … below the checkmark?’
‘Excellent. Done. No further ideas needed…’
‘We could put it … below the checkmark?’
‘Excellent. Done. No further ideas needed…’
Industrial estate street signage psychedelia.
March 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Industrial estate street signage psychedelia.
From burials at St James', Clerkenwell, London, 1734. Stuff was messed up back then. 'A girl dropt in a coffin in the church yard'
February 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From burials at St James', Clerkenwell, London, 1734. Stuff was messed up back then. 'A girl dropt in a coffin in the church yard'
From the instas - an old pic of me playing geetar for Sally Timms (Mekons) - those were luvverly days!!
February 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From the instas - an old pic of me playing geetar for Sally Timms (Mekons) - those were luvverly days!!
No Wyndham Lewis or Spencer Gore artwork; Arthur Machen isn’t at the next table nor is Mona Limerick on the stage; still this is the space once the Cave of the Golden Calf and my man makes a damn fine sazerac!
February 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
No Wyndham Lewis or Spencer Gore artwork; Arthur Machen isn’t at the next table nor is Mona Limerick on the stage; still this is the space once the Cave of the Golden Calf and my man makes a damn fine sazerac!
I'm working on a book related to (about?) the Cave of the Golden Calf - the London nightclub c1912. Their manifesto is so relevant today:
'Our aims have the simplicity of a need: We want a place given up to gaiety, to a gaiety stimulating thought, rather
than crushing it...'
'Our aims have the simplicity of a need: We want a place given up to gaiety, to a gaiety stimulating thought, rather
than crushing it...'
February 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I'm working on a book related to (about?) the Cave of the Golden Calf - the London nightclub c1912. Their manifesto is so relevant today:
'Our aims have the simplicity of a need: We want a place given up to gaiety, to a gaiety stimulating thought, rather
than crushing it...'
'Our aims have the simplicity of a need: We want a place given up to gaiety, to a gaiety stimulating thought, rather
than crushing it...'
Brighton seafront doorway. 1758.
January 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Brighton seafront doorway. 1758.
Last night I did The Great Satanic Swindle in Norwich, at the marvelous new bookshop / drinks spot / DIY venue The Holloway, alongside my pals the *incredible* Feathered Thorns. Great shop, great town, great crowd - beyond sold out. Thank you! Check 'em out: linktr.ee/thehollowayn...
January 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Last night I did The Great Satanic Swindle in Norwich, at the marvelous new bookshop / drinks spot / DIY venue The Holloway, alongside my pals the *incredible* Feathered Thorns. Great shop, great town, great crowd - beyond sold out. Thank you! Check 'em out: linktr.ee/thehollowayn...
The Trapping Fog - little chapbook/zine of poems inspired by landscapes & language of 1980s D&D modules - avail now. Poems by me and Tom Eglington (wyrdwoods; thistlebone) and illustrations by tom. A #folkhorror stocking stuffer in tribute to the 50th anniv. of Dungeons & Dragons. Link/bio.
December 13, 2024 at 11:31 AM
The Trapping Fog - little chapbook/zine of poems inspired by landscapes & language of 1980s D&D modules - avail now. Poems by me and Tom Eglington (wyrdwoods; thistlebone) and illustrations by tom. A #folkhorror stocking stuffer in tribute to the 50th anniv. of Dungeons & Dragons. Link/bio.
From today's FT (Financial, not Fortean, Times) - explain to me what 'esoteric structured finance' is and how its universe is expanding? (Wrong answers only, please.)
December 10, 2024 at 11:30 AM
From today's FT (Financial, not Fortean, Times) - explain to me what 'esoteric structured finance' is and how its universe is expanding? (Wrong answers only, please.)
Just got the new Pefkin album (via b&ndc&mp) to listen to and it makes me realise it's been a year at least since my last 'What ya listening to' request. So, what non-pop/non-rock music should I check out? Ambient, folk, experimentalish, hauntological, neo-classical, etc?
November 21, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Just got the new Pefkin album (via b&ndc&mp) to listen to and it makes me realise it's been a year at least since my last 'What ya listening to' request. So, what non-pop/non-rock music should I check out? Ambient, folk, experimentalish, hauntological, neo-classical, etc?
Some new stuff coming soon: I'll have a tiny chapbook of poems in for D&D's 50th #gygax; a collaborative track with Italian hauntologist 30 Door Key; & a tribute piece to filmmaker Larry Gottheim w/ Woodchester Piano Company. Plus a buncha podcast eps... thanks for being here, stay tuned...
November 19, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Some new stuff coming soon: I'll have a tiny chapbook of poems in for D&D's 50th #gygax; a collaborative track with Italian hauntologist 30 Door Key; & a tribute piece to filmmaker Larry Gottheim w/ Woodchester Piano Company. Plus a buncha podcast eps... thanks for being here, stay tuned...