Tim Burrows
@timburrows.bsky.social
Writer, Guardian and others. The Invention of Essex is published by Profile Books: http://bit.ly/3Bj9lLi
Guardian profile: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tim-burrows
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/timburrows
Agent: [email protected]
Guardian profile: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tim-burrows
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/timburrows
Agent: [email protected]
Knighthood for Geoff Barrow
![A screengrab of text in which Geoff Barrow from Portishead answers a question:
Barrow answers: Did you ever imagine that your sonic experiments on Dummy would become the backdrop to so many romantic entanglements – and how do you feel about being the unsung hero of the 90s sex playlist? asks VerulamiumParkRanger
I’ve heard that people were going out, doing ecstasy, coming back, smoking spliffs and putting Dummy on. If you just listened to the music, you’d think: “That’s really chilled, man.” However, the worst thing that anyone can say about my music is that it’s chilled! That makes me throw up. They’re only listening to Beth [Gibbons]’s voice, not what she’s saying, which makes a huge difference. I’ve had people actually say “My daughter over there was made to your music”, and I’m like, “fuck off”. I can’t think of anything worse to make love to.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fatch45et3xo3adwd6yejbzb/bafkreidpcfdggjrc7hretdat5e6dl7a3ezxzv7nkaq2st5hsdlf6zsvtue@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Knighthood for Geoff Barrow
We need a long read on the post-punk archeology of Starmerism, how its detachment lay not in any deep lying discomfort with a role he felt he was born to have, but just his love of groups like Josef K
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We need a long read on the post-punk archeology of Starmerism, how its detachment lay not in any deep lying discomfort with a role he felt he was born to have, but just his love of groups like Josef K
My latest working theory about the fact Starmer *simply can never look directly at the camera* is it is a hangover from his much-reported obsessive infatuation with 1980s post-punk bands such as Orange Juice
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
My latest working theory about the fact Starmer *simply can never look directly at the camera* is it is a hangover from his much-reported obsessive infatuation with 1980s post-punk bands such as Orange Juice
Excited to announce the first London screening of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, a film I have been helping with this past year. I'm in conversation with Andy Beckett (who features in the fim) afterwards.
30 October, Good Shepherd Studios, Leytonstone: www.tickettailor.com/events/weflo...
30 October, Good Shepherd Studios, Leytonstone: www.tickettailor.com/events/weflo...
September 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Excited to announce the first London screening of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, a film I have been helping with this past year. I'm in conversation with Andy Beckett (who features in the fim) afterwards.
30 October, Good Shepherd Studios, Leytonstone: www.tickettailor.com/events/weflo...
30 October, Good Shepherd Studios, Leytonstone: www.tickettailor.com/events/weflo...
I heard you fight fascism by simply saying: 'Sir! Your deportation numbers! They simply do not stack up!'
September 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I heard you fight fascism by simply saying: 'Sir! Your deportation numbers! They simply do not stack up!'
It's like someone tried to do Gilbert and George with AI
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's like someone tried to do Gilbert and George with AI
100% pure Gove commission
September 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
100% pure Gove commission
Of all the former Tory ministers I'd have had down as a Weimar fantasist, it would have been Gove tbf
September 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Of all the former Tory ministers I'd have had down as a Weimar fantasist, it would have been Gove tbf
Absolutely love these @thequietus.com Baker's Dozen selections from Jack Barnett of These New Puritans, including this on the Columbo soundtrack. thequietus.com/interviews/b...
July 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Absolutely love these @thequietus.com Baker's Dozen selections from Jack Barnett of These New Puritans, including this on the Columbo soundtrack. thequietus.com/interviews/b...
Torode's agent furiously sending voice notes to the producer as Nick Knowles is unveiled. 'John *IS* Malbec in this country, and you fucking know that, Iain.'
July 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Torode's agent furiously sending voice notes to the producer as Nick Knowles is unveiled. 'John *IS* Malbec in this country, and you fucking know that, Iain.'
Another inauspicious omen for Labour courtesy of my transcripton software
July 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Another inauspicious omen for Labour courtesy of my transcripton software
We sent this off to print today: an anthology of essays published with Estuary Festival 2025 on the legacy of Essex nightlife. Featuring essays from myself, Emma Edmondson, @danhancox.bsky.social , Morgan Quaintance, Sarah Wayman and Michael Fordham
June 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We sent this off to print today: an anthology of essays published with Estuary Festival 2025 on the legacy of Essex nightlife. Featuring essays from myself, Emma Edmondson, @danhancox.bsky.social , Morgan Quaintance, Sarah Wayman and Michael Fordham
Proper love this gallery of the new Ibiza book by Dean Chalkley. www.theguardian.com/music/galler...
May 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Proper love this gallery of the new Ibiza book by Dean Chalkley. www.theguardian.com/music/galler...
Is Google winding me up?
May 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Is Google winding me up?
I prefer it when either/or constructions are more binary than this
May 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I prefer it when either/or constructions are more binary than this
Can't read this in anything other than the cadence of Addicted to Bass by Puretone
May 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Can't read this in anything other than the cadence of Addicted to Bass by Puretone
Ken Worpole is a gentle yet fervent genius of writing about place and politics, and a great inspiration. I'm asking him questions about his new book tomorrow 24 April at Westcliff Library in Southend on Sea. Free entry &, as Thursday is the new Friday, BYOB www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southend-l...
April 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Ken Worpole is a gentle yet fervent genius of writing about place and politics, and a great inspiration. I'm asking him questions about his new book tomorrow 24 April at Westcliff Library in Southend on Sea. Free entry &, as Thursday is the new Friday, BYOB www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southend-l...
Finally found out what Train Guy does @bobmort.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Finally found out what Train Guy does @bobmort.bsky.social
Plus: TNP looking menacing/fetching ON Southend seafront WITH text by me ON paper IN today's Guardian newspaper
March 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Plus: TNP looking menacing/fetching ON Southend seafront WITH text by me ON paper IN today's Guardian newspaper
I remember reading it was from her first marriage
March 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I remember reading it was from her first marriage