Chris Bateman
"We've all had too much sorrow, now is the time for joy." Occasional writer about books and music. MD ANT
@govanstones.bsky.social
Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from early medieval Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old, and surrounded by our 1,500-year-old churchyard ⏰️ Open 7 days, 11am to 4pm 🎟 Entry is FREE!
@bookshelfie.bsky.social
The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Review Site) Accepting book submissions now! https://book-shelfie.com/submit-book/
@raecomm.bsky.social
International football commentator: ESPN, Bundesliga world feed, #EAFC25 video game (since FIFA19 days) and many others. Originally from Aberdeen in NE Scotland🏴 Happiest working in Köln. Posts in English & German. Contact: Nicola@belmontsport.com
@danielgraywriter.bsky.social
Next book ‘Sunday Best’ (April 10th). Word churner. Editor of @nutmegmagazine. Host of @WSC_magazine pod. York-grown Boro man living in Scotland. Links: https://linktr.ee/danielgraywriter
@nicolameighan.bsky.social
Arts Writer & Broadcaster 🏳️⚧️ Friday Afternoons, BBC Radio Scotland A Kick Up The Arts podcast akickupthearts.org Interviews: Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, Martha Reeves, Joan Collins
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social
Sonic hunter gatherer. Past/present scribe for Under The Surface, Comes With A Smile, Delusions of Adequacy, Pennyblack Music, Concrete Islands and Freq. Freq: https://freq.org.uk/tag/adrian All views my own.
@brokensubjects.bsky.social
Founder of Concrete Islands (2018-2024). New zine Broken Subjects launching 2025. Former section editor at Plan B magazine. Severed worker.
@orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Books and Archives since 1683. Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Ex-Guardian & Observer journalist till I got replaced by Nick Clegg. Fighting the Broligarchy since 2016. Please sign up to my (free!) newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy
@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
Artist, author & culture writer. History & art buff. The Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. My 2nd book, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club is now out. All stuff here. https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
@sarakbarker.bsky.social
Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
@rmhubbert.com
Retired tea towel salesman. https://rockaction.scot/collections/aidan-moffat-rm-hubbert https://chemikal.co.uk/artists/rm-hubbert https://elhombretrajeado.bandcamp.com
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966 | new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts | Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@gallopingpongwi.bsky.social
Too much music, not enough ears. May nothing but happiness come through your door ❤️
@spectralheron.bsky.social
All things bright & beautiful 🌻 fashioned in the North 🎸love gigs, Caramacs, vintage/quirky stuff 🎭 politically appalled 🧨 #MDANT
@overourwall.bsky.social
Music Podcast & You Tube Channel. Good music, good discussions, good times. #MDANT ❤️
@caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007 Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
@peteralanross.bsky.social
New book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland, will be published by Headline on September 11, 2025.
@bobbygant.bsky.social
Writer.... sometimes. A Decade of Drinking With Ghosts out 22nd August @razurcutsmag. Buy it at the link below: https://razurcuts.com/shop/a-decade-of-drinking-with-ghosts-bobby-gant #MDANT
@alisonirvine.bsky.social
Author Cat Step (Dead Ink) This Road is Red (Luath) Highly Commended in Wigtown Book Fest Anne Brown Essay Prize 2024 Recollective www.recollective.org.uk Concrete Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre Rep: Millie Hoskins, United Agents
@richards7370.bsky.social
Creator of the popular #5albums music polls. Family, friends, music obsessive, real ale / craft beer, Potters / Bears, whippets #MDANT 🏅 #musicsky 🎶 ‘In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection’ 🎶
@andrewgrantham.co.uk
Railways - especially in Afghanistan - travel and maybe the odd sound mirror. @andrew_grantham at The Other Place. https://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk
@thepastels.bsky.social
Independent music group. Songs, intervals, long intervals, clang, vibrant clang, sudden clang, no clang. thepastels.org
@jaynemoobs.bsky.social
Bon vivant; loves music, gigs, travel, veggie food, aperol & red lipstick! Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure🎖🤩
@theunhurriedreader.bsky.social
Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. 'Whatever is rational is tolerable.' theunhurriedreader.substack.com @the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing). 🇺🇦
@rhodri.biz
Vapid Response Unit. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi Also, musical human. Producer for Lush Handmade Sounds. Perform with Scritti Politti, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint etc. More info at rhodri.biz
@lissakevans.bsky.social
Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog, desultory gardener, attention span of a flea. lissaevans.com
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@adidazzlers.bsky.social
Scouse Kidney Transplant recipient YNWA, kicking the river, no pasaran! ASD since 2019 (officially speaking). Medium Density Autistic Nipple Twister Naarm, Wurundjeri country. #MDANT progressives oppose conservatives while liberals dither in the middle
@timalloypaul.bsky.social
Celtic fan, dad, grandad, sonographer. Cherish the NHS - you'll miss it when it's gone. #MDANT
@gordya49.bsky.social
Displaced Scot balancing quiet living with football, music , family and the dug not necessarily in that order. MDANT
@chemunderground.bsky.social
Independent record label est. 1995 in Glasgow. We’ve released albums by Mogwai, Arab Strap, The Delgados, The Phantom Band, Adrian Crowley, RM Hubbert, Broken Chanter, Chrysanths to name a few. https://linktr.ee/chemikalunderground
@richardlittler.bsky.social
Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system. https://www.richardlittler.com
@perrinado78.bsky.social
Work for a Uni in Glasgow in Education. Love Glasgow gigs, Glasgow art, and Aberdeen FC and watching Scotland now win! 😅 Memorial Service ANT
@barnsleysime.bsky.social
owner & DJ Solid Front Radio & Rock n Roll Lounge / Modernist / scooter rider / Morning Star DJ Of The Year 2015 / Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure / slowly but surely getting thinner
@gogorabbitrabbit.bsky.social
Film photography, zines, pretentious movies, noisy music. KY to WV to NC.
@casperpottle.bsky.social
Bearded bibliophile. Libertarian Socialist. Birder. George Blake's jailbreak. Ban the Bomb. Bradford via North Wales and North London. "The Useful Idiot of Bradford" - Alastair Stewart
@coneyislandsound.bsky.social
Music Making. Portstewart via Belfast, Hull, Gateshead & North Shields. Electronic Music/Archiving/The Sea. www.coneyislandsound.com or for more https://linktr.ee/coneyislandsound
@shelleyr.bsky.social
Tentatively here. Toronto by way of Montreal. Lapsed academic. Sound + vision, mainly. #MDANT Oh, and @shelley_rohar on that other site
@johnamaechi.apsintel.com
Speaker Psychologist Founder of APS Intelligence Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School Media enquiries: media.enquiries@apsintel.com https://linktr.ee/promisesofgiants
@poetclare.bsky.social
Novelist. Poet. Reader. 🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, etc. ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS coming 2025. Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle