‘Here is a place of landlines, phone boxes and overhead pylons rather than wind farms, 5G masts and QR codes...’

Berris Conolly’s arresting photographs are proof that there is nothing so distant and strange as the recent past, writes Travis Elborough www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/trav...

Will Sergeant, Victoria Olympus OM1 Ilford XP2

www.flickr.com/photos/mylif... snap of Will Sergeant from recent stroll along the Thames

Launch of Touched by the Presence @garylachman.bsky.social @thecolonyroom.bsky.social

At the launch I'll be in conversation with pop culture savant Travis Elborough. I'll be showing the short film my son Max made to promote the book, and giving away copies of the rare "Amor Fati" CD, of tracks by my band The Know, with every book sold.

thanks for coming both of you!

On Saturday 10 January 2026, Foyles Charing X Rd will be hosting a Bowie Day Festival to mark a decade since the death of David Bowie. I will be chairing a couple of events
@foylesforbooks #bowie #davidbowie
Book via
www.foyles.co.uk/events/bowie...?

As festive season darts mania once again takes over the UK with the annual PDC World Darts Championship, Travis Elborough travels back to 1979 and John Samson's documentary about the rise of Eric Bristow

Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough on #EricBristow Darts Documentary, Arrows

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Thanks again to The Balloonist & @hiddenbritain.bsky.social for their superb sets - at #thehorsehospital
more #concretealtantis adventures planned for next year

20 years on 9th December - since the Routemaster left normal service
Piece I did on their 70th anniversary for the Big Issue a while back
www.bigissue.com/life/routema...

next Thurs 7pm, 11 December at The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury wegottickets.com/event/678061/

Next Thursday 11 Dec at the Horse Hospital www.thehorsehospital.com/events/a-con...

Lud Heat A limited 50th anniversary edition of Iain Sinclair's classic text. With photographs by Anonymous Bosch and essays by Travis Elborough and Adolfo Barberá del Rosal.  “THE TRUE LEGACY OF LUD HEAT IS TH...

'Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets' 50th ltd ed of Iain Sinclair’s classic @swedenborghouse.bsky.social nborghouse.bsky.social photos by Anonymous Bosch + essays by Travis Elborough + Adolfo Barberá del Rosal.
available online here £14.95 (PLUS P&P): www.swedenborg.org.uk/product/lud-...

The wonderful Budgie @waterstones.bsky.social Gower Street @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

A reminder that Budgie will be appearing at Waterstones Gower Street tomorrow night, in conversation with Travis Elborough about his acclaimed memoir The Absence. He'll be signing copies afterwards too, so come down and meet a legend...

www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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On Wed 12 Nov - I'll be interviewing Budgie at Gower Street Waterstones book here www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Concrete Atlantis Autumnal #polaroids #expiredfilm @thehorsehospital @kempernorton.bsky.social #lauragraceford + #markopilkington #teleplasmiste @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social
#polaroids #expirefilm

Interviewing #paulmorley about #davidbowie last night in Soho for Walthamstow Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club
snap thanks to David Simmon

Next outing for the Bob Dylan Record Club is from 2pm on Saturday 15th November @betseytrotwood.bsky.social @peteastor.bsky.social chooses Love and Theft
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/672334

#iainsinclair Lud Heat 50th special ltd edition of just 200 with a piece by me in the appendix - available from @swedenborghouse.bsky.social now

Secret History of London's East End (4K) YouTube video by John Rogers

For my fellow Iain Sinclair fanatics(?) an excellent 50th anniversary Lud Heat walk by John Rogers

Unhappy band of brothers: the Beach Boys’ story Film noir was the term coined by the French in the late 1940s to describe the genre of Hollywood crime movies which probed the darkness that lay in the shadows cast by all that bright Californian sunlight....

Unhappy band of brothers: the Beach Boys’ story.

✍️ Travis Elborough

PAUL MORLEY: FAR ABOVE THE WORLD THE TIME AND SPACE OF DAVID BOWIE

Paul Morley’s new book on Bowie is published a week today. Join us at the launch event at 21 Soho close to Bowie stomping grounds. In conversation with Travis Elborough #FarAboveTheWorld

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paul-morle...

Kat Lister - The Betsey Trotwood Canon T50 Ilford XP2

www.flickr.com/photos/mylif... snap @katlister.bsky.social from our Street Legal listening party @betseytrotwood.bsky.social

A lovely event - cheers to those came etc and, of course, to Kat

Tomorrow afternoon at the Betsey - @katlister.bsky.social and I listen to the post-Elvis, post-divorce, pre-God-ish album Street Legal from 1978 - doors 2pm

Alright Bobcats, just a little reminder that I will be joining Travis Elborough at my fave pub on Saturday to talk all things Street Legal, an album I've loved since I was 17. I will be bringing my Dylan encyclopedia! I may even recite some Sam Shepard! There will definitely be beer! Join us!

The delightful Billy Collins at the Cheltenham Literature Festival

Tomorrow at #cheltenhamliteraryfestival #geoffdyer

Delighted to be interviewing Budgie at @waterstones Gower St next month

Sound Gallery 30th tonight @ Century Club