David Bamford

@davidbamford.me

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He/Him. Glasgow. Queer. Writer. Con-goer and -runner. Eastercon co-chair 2027. Horror, SF/F, queer culture, punk/sludge/hardcore/doom metal, kittens. Conservatives/bots/TERFs/nazis/arseholes need not follow. #ThePhobiaFiles is at davidbamford.me

Movie poster for IN A VIOLENT NATURE, showing a masked killer wielding a hook.
A black t-shirt design for the band Deerhoof featuring the midnight dinner scene from the film Goodfellas, in which Joe Pesci asks to borrow a carving knife to cut a deer’s hoof out of his car grille
A yellow greeting card and blue envelope. On the card is a drawing of 2 men on a high street, with several coffee shops around them. One man is saying to the other, ‘Excuse me, is there anywhere round here I can’t get a coffee?’
Movie poster for TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989) - a man’s face, blue-tinged, faces left, surrounded by metal cogs
Movie poster for THE DESCENT (2005). A black background has a thin, blue, misty-looking line leads down to a woman’s face, looking to camera.
Image of the poster for POSSUM: it shows a spider crawling out of a doctor’s type bag on a bed.
The book DARKEST MARGINS rests on a wooden table, along with swatches of fabric worn on-screen by Lady Gaga in AHS: HOTEL.
Sunrise feat. an orange/dark blue sky, against which are silhouetted two church spires
Cover of THE GONE-AWAY WORLD by Nick Harkaway, featuring white text (The Gone-Away World) above a red paint splatter in more or less a straight line bisecting the cover, beneath which the author’s name is written, again in white. The background is black.
George, a black and white cat, on a laminate floor.
A list of films to watch for Shocktober
Against a dark blue-grey nighttime background, several silhouetted children run away from camera, their arms outstretched at their sides. Beneath the children, the word WEAPONS is in bright red capital letters.
A dark red background, on which black text reads SPIDERS.
Black and white still from the video game LIMBO. A small child stands, facing to the right of the screen, on a platform over some water and a slight drop. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to him, a HUGE spider is crawling towards him from behind.
On a red background, black type reads ‘The Phobia Files’
On a red background, the word HEIGHTS. is written in black type.
Three tiny bottles of pink gin/gin liqueur from (l-r) Whitley Neill, Greenalls and Edinburgh Gin.
On a red background, black text reads #ThePhobiaFiles coming 2025, what are you afraid of?
On a red background, black text reads: #ThePhobiaFiles Coming 2025 What are you afraid of?
Lineup for Core. Festival in Glasgow this year.
Green background with skeleton beneath with raised arms. Caption reads ‘Describe a horror movie in 5 words or less and let’s see who can guess what it is’.
The Sound of Music's Sister Maria regales the Von Trapp children with an acoustic guitar rendition of La Dispute’s King Park on an Austrian mountaintop
Cover of THE GRACE OF KINGS by Ken Liu, showing a metal armour helmet with a dandelion on top of it against a black background
Cover of the new Deafheaven album LONELY PEOPLE WITH POWER, featuring a lady leaning in the window of a red car, in which a child sits.
Pete Hesgeth as one of The Plastics in MEAN GIRLS (2004) in a car with Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert, the caption reads ‘get in loser we’re bombing Yemen’
Alexis Mateo on RuPaul’s Drag Race mid-argument, saying ‘Act the fool, girl. Act the fool.’
A man with a beard (me) in a green t-shirt looking at the camera. I have a visible tattoo on my right arm. My shirt is kind of crumpled and the walls of the room are painted green. There is a painting on the wall of a man fishing surrounded by greenery.
Image of the villain from the movie AUDITION, a Japanese women called Asami. She has long black hair and is wearing a black and white shirt and long black gloves and holds a length of piano wire. The title of the movie FOOTLOOSE is emblazoned over the image. SPOILERS FOR AUDITION BELOW In Audition, the climax of the movie comes when Asami cuts a man’s foot off with piano wire.
3 people on top of a skyscraper, on the left a man in a mask smokes a cigarette while holding a machine gun, in the middle a man holds a sledgehammer across his own shoulders and on the right a young girl stands looking at the masked man.
Cover of THE QUEEN by Nick Cutter, showing a woman’s face with a wasp on her cheek.
Two glowing residential towers on a sunny and misty day early in the morning, sunlight reflecting off and between them. Trees and greenery in the foreground. Blue sky above.
Simpsons meme: Bart’s classmates are looking at him and the caption is ‘Say the line, James!’ The next panel is Bart, downcast, with James Hetfield’s (Metallica) face pasted over his. The caption is ‘My lifestyle determines my deathstyle’. The final panel is his classmates celebrating and laughing at him. The meme is a reference to Metallica’s 2003 song ‘Frantic’.
Anime character gesturing/looking at a butterfly. By his head it says ‘Metal bands’, by the butterfly’s head it says ‘One date in London on a Wednesday night’ and the question the men is asking is ‘Is this a UK tour?’
Meme featuring 2 cartoon computers, the caption reads ‘Oh you’ve had sex? Yeah, well I’ve had enough’
On a red background, black text reads: #ThePhobiaFiles Coming 2025 What are you afraid of?
Jeremy Bolm of the LA post-hardcore band Touché Amoré. Jeremy has a shaved head and is holding a microphone in his right hand and is singing into it, he wears a black t-shirt and black trousers. Both his arms are tattooed.
The cover of Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 album, DAMN. Kendrick is a Black man with his head bowed slightly, looking into the camera. He has cornrowed hair and is wearing a white t-shirt. He is standing in front of a red brick wall. The album title, DAMN., is in big red capital letters above his head.
Nick Offerman sits in a chair outside a white building with a Pringle in his right hand. In his left hand he holds the Pringle tube. He has a moustache and 3-4 days of beard growth and is looking up at something off-camera. His left hand has a wedding ring on the ring finger. He is wearing a plaid shirt. The text above the picture (a paid partnership ad for Pringles) reads ‘Nick Offerman and Pringles paid partnership’
Cover for Doechii’s 2024 album ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL. Doechii, a Black woman, is sitting in a wooden u-shaped chair on the right hand side of the picture, wearing a white blouse and green tartan-print skirt, white and beige knee-length socks and black shoes. Her braided hair falls over her left shoulder. She has earrings in, and is looking straight to camera. The chair she sits in is on a patterned Persian-style rug, which is on a wooden floor. She is holding an albino alligator, which is side-on to camera, facing to her right. The wall behind her is dark, forest green in colour.
Hayseed Dixie. 4 men (l-r) in a vest with a guitar, a vest with a banjo, a brightly coloured shirt and hat with a guitar, and one in dungarees with his back turned holding a ukelele
Cattle Decapitation, a death-grind band from the USA
JD Vance attempting coolness by posing outside wearing sunglasses in the dark on a flimsy-legged chair against a background of timber logs while holding a big machine gun (possibly an AR-15, I don’t know guns sorry). Needless to say, from the above description his attempt at coolness has already failed miserably. Caption reads ‘The Catholic Vance will give liberal bishops a challenge they aren’t used to: a young, appealing, intelligent, articulate and muscular counterpoint to the effeminate (but fading) ecclesiastical zeitgeist of the 60s. He likely has a far better grasp of *real* Catholic social teaching.
Artwork for the END album ‘Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face’ - a haunted, skeletal human figure in yellows and browns beset on all sides by splinters and shards aimed at their face
Pic of George, a handsome black and white cat sitting on top of a shed in a garden
A gold framed painting of Big Ronnie and Big Brayden, lead characters in THE GREASY STRANGLER, the title of which is spray painted in pink across the picture. Ronnie has white hair and wears a grey and black striped shirt, Brayden wears a mustard yellow roll neck sweater.
A young woman looks at the viewer while peeling dead skin from her face. The picture is blue and purple-hued. The movie title REPLACE is in white below the woman’s neckline.
Pic of Shania Twain as a guest host on RuPaul’s Drag Race. She has curly auburn hair and is wearing a sparkly pinky-red and black dress. She is seen from the chest upwards. In the background are tessellated hexagons in pink and red. The caption reads ‘Fuck same here we go’
Black and white image of David Lynch against a grey background
A masked pilgrim in a traditional pilgrim costume carrying an axe.
Ho99o9 vocalist Yeti Bones wearing a Freddie Krueger glove while performing at Manchester’s Soup Kitchen
Image of The Lord of the Rings DVD art, featuring every major character
Artwork for Deftones’ 2000 album WHITE PONY, which shows a line drawing of a pony on a white background.
Image of a woman with long hair obscuring her face, standing in a room with curtains drawn closed.
Courtney Cox as journalist Gale Weathers in SCREAM (1996). She is holding a microphone and wearing a lime green suit jacket
Selfie of me in a red shirt and black jacket. I am bearded and smiling.
A shadowy figure barely lit against a dark background- tagline ‘Succumb to the darkness’ above him and the title ‘Nosferatu’ below
Cover of Type O Negative’s 1996 album OCTOBER RUST. Green thorns against a black background. In the top right corner the band’s name is written in orange, with Type O horizontally and Negative vertically, and in the bottom left corner, the title in orange, with October horizontally but upside down and Rust vertically.
Movie poster for CASPER (1995) - tagline is ‘Seeing is believing’. Black background with ‘Casper’ in white text and the tagline in blue text. Picture above the text is of 4 blue-outlined cartoon ghosts, the three ‘villain’ ghosts above Casper himself, who is peeking out just above the movie title, hands holding the A and R of his name.
Demi Moore’s face in close up, she has 2 irises in one eye. White text says THE SUBSTANCE across her face.
Lime green background with the word ‘brat’ in black