Jez Conolly

Feast your eyes on these beauties!

I’m from Cleethorpes originally and I was very familiar with ‘kali’ from the sweet shop, which was like a more solid form of sherbet.

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Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly PREORDER In Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, Jez Conolly revisits the haunted textures of a 1970s childhood on the Lincolnshire coast, where faded...

A quick update for anyone who has preordered a copy of my new book Capture Spiral. Copies are expected to be received from the printer this week, and posted out ASAP thereafter. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, and would like to, here’s the link.

temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/capt...

The Lincoln Imp

Combine that with stories about the Lincoln Imp and you could start to believe that the smell of sulphur in that part of England isn’t purely because of the drains.

I found my copy in a charity shop some years ago, for just £2. I didn’t realise at the time

a) quite what a bible it is
b) quite what a bargain that was

I’m just reviewing a WIP, and by crikey, have I over-hyphenated! Oops, there I go again!

Dolly poster

Boris Johnson vibes

Stork Roofing mascot on some scaffolding

It’s not a real stork, if you’re wondering.

I think I speak for the vast majority of my British countryfolk, when, in response to his recent remarks, I say to Mr. Trump: ‘if you’d be so kind, please fuck off and die soon, you bigoted, lying, murderous, syphilitic rapist and child molester. Thank you very much’.

Well, at least I was polite.

a little boy is standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books . Alt: a little boy is standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books .

Stupid memory! I read a great quote recently and I can’t now remember the source. However, it’s good advice: write the kind of book that, in sixty years time, somebody will find at the bottom of a pile of books in a secondhand book shop, and think to themselves ‘this is weird, I’m gonna buy it’.

Yes, have done. One or two I was already following, but not the vast majority. The more the merrier!

Thanks Rob! Could you please add me to the list if I’m not on it?

A woman (Lesley) and her mother (Dorothy) in a hospital waiting room - a scene from the miniplay ‘Adam & Yves’

Looks like a theatre company will be acting out my short playscript ‘Adam & Yves’ at a venue in Wimbledon on 31/3. More deets to follow - in the unlikely event you’re in the area on that date, and free, you might like to go along.

Misocomplex Miso Complex GIF Alt: Misocomplex Miso Complex GIF

I’ll tell you a bad habit podcasters have. They start by saying ‘my first guest needs no introduction’ and then proceed to give you
a lengthy verbal profile of their guest. So obviously you think they *do* need an introduction 🤷

Plate glass edges

If anyone should ever ask me that age-old question ‘what’s your favourite colour?’, my answer would be ‘that greenish colour that you can see along the edge of a sheet of plate glass’. I mean it, it is.

Ché Aimee Dorval - Carnal Needs (Live Video) YouTube video by Ché Aimee Dorval

One more - not really Cocteauesque but one of the best new tracks I’ve heard in a while. youtu.be/HsNtkIycfMk?...

Silver Tunnel YouTube video by Leo Valmont - Topic

Also not bad. youtu.be/X9vAS0AXYv0?...

Waves YouTube video by Art School Girlfriend - Topic

Also this, in the Cocteau/Massive Attack middle ground. youtu.be/0xjHygbcHZk?...

Yndling - It's Almost Like You're Here YouTube video by Yndling

This one’s pretty good, although possibly more like Lush than Cocteaus. youtu.be/YQBUCt4XVdw?...

I spend my waking hours searching for bands and artists that sound a bit like Cocteau Twins, just to fill the void left by them.

THIS JUST IN: yoga teacher breaks wind during class, killing all pupils.

THIS JUST IN: yoga teacher breaks wind during class, killing all pupils.

As bad as things are right now, the thing that worries me the most is that, while a lot of people in the UK/Europe regard Trump as an aberration, what if what follows him is just as bad if not worse? What if it’s not a horrible blip?

That’s my feeling. The real story here is: ‘to what extent is this a part of an orchestrated campaign to reconfigure attitudes as a means of saving money?’ Publishing the words of an eminent but elderly expert in a premeditated attempt to move the needle on the subject. That’s what’s going on here.

a black and white photo of a woman standing in a kitchen with the words `` hmmmm , let me think '' . Alt: a black and white photo of a woman standing in a kitchen with the words `` hmmmm , let me think '' .

Serious question for Reform supporters: given that you want to vote for the Party of Hate, which of these do you hate the most?:

a) immigrants / foreigners
b) liberal, educated people
c) everyone who isn’t you
d) (secretly) yourself

Tough choice I know, but give it a shot.

Lord Offord

Offord. Declined. The living embodiment of the contempt Reform UK has for Scotland. He looks like a semi-melted Gerry Anderson puppet. No, scratch that, Gerry Anderson puppets are infinitely more believable. He has the face of somebody waiting to have their arse handed to them on a plate.

Shabana Mahmood

It’s giving ‘baddie off of Blake’s 7’.

The Witch’s Hat, a poem by Jez Conolly

#WorldBookDay is my flimsy excuse for sharing the poem that I read out at the Granite Noir Crime Writing Festival ‘Into the Dark’ event on 19/3.

Ché Aimee Dorval - Carnal Needs (Live Video) YouTube video by Ché Aimee Dorval

Time to obliterate the relentlessly bleak world news with some excellent new music. Share a song that’s been released in the last few weeks that makes you think people are still out there doing great stuff. youtu.be/HsNtkIycfMk?...