Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social Co-creator/cohost of Talking Simpsons podcast, follow us wherever you listen to podcasts and also on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/talkingsimpsons
Bob Mackey @bobservo.bsky.social Co-host of Retronauts and Talking Simpsons, acclaimed author of Skeleton Car Wash
Jeremy Parish (Radio Edit) @jparish.bsky.social NES Works/Segaiden video and book producer; Retronauts co-host; RGB addict. Get it straight: I did not invent the word "Metroidvania," and my opinions don't represent those of my employers. He/him. Header pic: Sonya Yruel.
Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social Editorial Director of the BAFTA-nominated Tetris Forever and more at Digital Eclipse.
Co-host, Good Job, Brain! WIRED editor from 2005 to 2017. Well-known Japanese curry enjoyer.
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Stuart Gipp @stuartgipp.bsky.social British one off of Retronauts. Games writer, etc.
All Games Are Good: limitedrungames.com/products/all-games-are-good-hardcover
Merry Hell: merryhellcomic.com
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com Director of @necrosoftgames.com, panelist on the @insertcredit.com show, recovering journalist, genre cinema enjoyer, and resident of the city of Oakland California.
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too 
Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space 📛ask me about boku no natsuyasumi
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BUY BLAST RUSH LS! https://bipedal.dog/works/bls
Pod casting: https://nomorewhoppers.com https://drawgamepod.com
Former 1UP/Retronauts
https://rdbaaa.space for more fun
Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social Playing video games since 1976.
Writing about them since 1983.
Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social A podcast about old video games. 10 years = retro, we don't make the rules. Support us on Patreon for exclusive episodes, Discord access, and more!
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Forgotten Worlds @forgottenworlds.bsky.social Looking back at video game magazines and culture from the 80s and 90s. Check the website for articles / interviews about obscure magazines and retro games… https://www.forgottenworlds.net
💽🕹
jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social Protagonist at https://dekiru.gg — websites for indie game studios.
Mega Drive maniac
Loud music listener
~ You are not the only hero ~
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
CAPCOM OFFICIAL／ARTWORKS Ⅱ @capcomart.bsky.social カプコンアートワークBluesky公式アカウントです。デザイン室時代から現在まで、イラストに関する活動情報、アーカイブネタをお届けします。※ご返信はできませんのでご了承ください。 Hello there! This is the official account of the Capcom Artwork Team.
Shoe @danshoehsu.bsky.social Now: @goinganalogshow.bsky.social.
Formerly: EGM/1UP, Bitmob, GamesBeat, PlayStation, Blizzard, Riot Games. ❤️s: board/video games, Christina Ha, Michigan Wolverines, snowboarding. Opinions: mine!
Chris Grant @charstring.com Now: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then:
VP @fandom.com // @gamespot.com @tvguide.com @metacritic.com and friends
SVP @voxmedia.com // @polygon.com @theverge.com
Always: A dork
In: PHL
Shane Bettenhausen @shanewatch.bsky.social ★
NO WAR
Ex-EGM/1up, blazing new trails in gaming with PlayStation. (Expressed opinions are my own, and not that of my employer.) RESIST / Stay Woke 大丈夫だ、問題ない (He/Him)
YouGov @yougov.co.uk YouGov gathers real opinions and behaviours from worldwide panel members to power insights into what the world thinks. Join now: https://account.yougov.com
Ipsos in the UK @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Leader in market research in the UK, part of @ipsosgroup.bsky.social.
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The Leaf Label @theleaflabel.com Taking the least worst option since 1995.
https://ffm.bio/theleaflabel
Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social All the wonders of space and time: space, science, science fiction, etc. Also on IG, TikTok, Twitter, Threads, etc. Contact: humanoidhistory@gmail.com
Marion Seury @marionseury.bsky.social • music PR
•• MGMT : Penny Arcade
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Rocket Recordings @rocketrecordings.bsky.social Reality you can rely on
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rocketrecordings.com
✞ 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔇𝔬𝔩𝔡𝔯𝔲𝔪𝔰 ✞ @blackdoldrums.bsky.social Creating melancholia for the masses
Latest album ‘In Limerence’ out on Fuzz Club
EU Tour 2025 details in link below
https://smart.bio/blackdoldrums
Chris Bye @chrisnbye.bsky.social Chief Exec Jazz North.
Trustee and consultant for creative and cultural sector. 
Blanck Mass @blanckmass.bsky.social Official Blue Sky account for Blanck Mass: Electronic musician / Award winning composer / Producer / Fuck Buttons (RIP) founder & member / Editors
Wandering Oak @wanderingoakuk.bsky.social Live magic in the north east!
Innovative, impassioned and international #psych • #postpunk • #dreamgaze • #rocknroll • eccentric #electronics and beyond...
http://www.wanderingoak.uk
Eat Your Own Ears @eatyourownears.bsky.social London-based music promoters and record label who work with an eclectic roster of the best new and established artists
Gigantic (Dan Lomax) @giganticdanlomax.bsky.social Alt/electro/darkwave/techno/dreampop/indie DJ in and around Leeds (then and now) also posing as an Events Management lecturer
https://www.mixcloud.com/GiganticDan/
6music @6music.bsky.social What's playing on BBC Radio 6 Music. #6music #nowplaying #bot
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Richard Norris @mrrichardnorris.bsky.social Musician, Writer, Producer. Jack The Tab, The Grid, The Time and Space Machine, Oracle Sound, Music For Healing, BTWS, etc. Lewes, England. Memoir 'Strange Things Are Happening' (White Rabbit) out now. www.richardnorris.bandcamp.com
𝔏𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔶 ℭ𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢 @lillycreightmore.bsky.social Artist
Director @ Trip Documentary
Marketing/Socials @ Fuzz Club Records
Berlin ⚔️ London
www.lillycreightmore.com
Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000).
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com Music for a broken concrete utopia.
He/him
https://warringtonruncorn.com/
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social Deputy Editor and folk music columnist at The Quietus // my book Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds Of Soft Cell is out now // cult classic, not best seller
John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
Co-founder of Acid Horse
Writer/Editor
Anti-Fascist
Listen to Nurse With Wound
https://linktr.ee/jahduran
Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social Write about music & culture & various things for various places, mainly the Guardian. Based in Sheffield. danieldylanwray@gmail.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-dylan-wray
Arusa Qureshi @arusa.bsky.social Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Hen Hoose
https://www.arusaqureshi.com/
Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
emmaggarland.com
Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
Joe Banks @joebankswriter.bsky.social 'Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground' - a MOJO, Uncut, Prog & Shindig book of the year. www.daysoftheunderground.com.
'Rock And Role: The Visionary Songs Of Peter Hammill And Van der Graaf Generator' out now. www.rockandrole.net
Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social I write for The Big Issue about arts and culture and stuff. SE London, via Derby, Cov, N London and Glasgow. 
Jeremy Allen @jeres.bsky.social Record Collector, Prog, Electronic Sound, the Quietus, Classic Pop... others.
Author of Relax Baby Be Cool: the Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg - out now on Jawbone Press
Will Salmon @evilrobotbill.bsky.social Super falling star. Words at SFX magazine, The Quietus, Wyrd Science, GamesRadar+, and more.
Modern Aviation (@modernaviation.bsky.social here and @musiqueparavion at the other place) doing tapes & that.
Tabletop stuff: unremembered_empire on IG.
Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social Writer / DJ / silly sausage
crisps / hullabaloo and custard / pop music is important
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Zara Hedderman @zarahedderman.bsky.social Listens to albums & writes (mostly) & talks (sometimes) about them in The Quietus, Aquarium Drunkard, Northern Transmissions, RTÉ Arena, The IMRO Podcast.
📩: heddermanzara@gmail.com
Newsletter: The Bad Arts
Hannah G @hannaheg.bsky.social writer on art, places, relations
~ memory-work ~
editor of nonfiction & experimental lit 
John Quin @jdquin.bsky.social FRCP. #MDANT Writing sometimes in The Wire, Quietus, ArtReview, The Tablet, 🇮🇪Times, 🏴 National.
Memoir: Dr Quin, Medicine Man. 4 star review @TheTimes.com
New 📕Video. On 📺 Art
Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com For those of you just returning.
https://matthewgneale.com ✨ he/they
Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot. 
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
Elizabeth Aubrey @aubreywrites.bsky.social Freelance arts & culture journalist / editor / lecturer.
Words: Guardian, GQ, IndieWire, MOJO, NME, Quietus, Radio Times, Record Collector, The Standard, Total Film & more.
www.elizabethaubrey.com
Derek Robertson @derekrocks.bsky.social Writer & editor. ✍🏻 for @guardian, @Independent, @NME, @VICE, @theQuietus, @timeout, @TheFaceMagazine & more.
https://derekrobertson.journoportfolio.com
Kiran Acharya @whoismrbishop.bsky.social 🎬 Eternity, Survival, Dispossession, Honesty
📧 Email community at www.kiranacharya.xyz
📱Enquiries & collaborations at www.kinoflekke.studio
Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social ✍️ music writer: The Wire, The Quietus, Kulturpunkt...
🥼 researcher
🍎 teacher: Academy of Music, Zagreb
⌨️ programmer
🌐 https://antonio.poscic.net
📰 https://researchmusic.blog
Christian Eede @chriseede.bsky.social Permanently tired / editing news stuff @thequietus / freelance stuff elsewhere
Jared mumbles into the void @ouchmonkey.bsky.social "I told him I was a business monkey, Roy"
Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social Writer & arts journalist in East Sussex. Shindig! The Quietus. Author of A Gathering Of Promises, Scatological Alchemy, Amorphous Albion, Pink Floyd Are Fogbound in Paris, etc. Discordian poet. www.bleedingcheek.wordpress.com https://ko-fi.com/bengraham23
Lior Phillips @liorphillips.bsky.social verklempt, mostly.
🌿Author of 33 1/3 South African Popular Music out now everywhere
❤️🔥Currently writing a book about Cher
🖤🇿🇦🪬🧿mother of twins 〰️ music journalist
chicago via cape town
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Daryl Worthington @darylworthington.bsky.social Spool's Out cassette reviews columnist at The Quietus. Sound maker at Beachers. Co-runner of Bezirk tape label. 
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Amanda Farah @amandafarah.bsky.social Woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.
Your foreign correspondent.
Sometime music writer.
Kombucha socialist.
Pointy dog owner.
Hemmelig dansker.
miloš hroch @miloshroch.bsky.social sonic nurse • the wire magazine • the quietus • respekt ❘ media studies at charles university ❘ nadšením nájem nezaplatíš
Vanessa Ague @vanessakayague.bsky.social Writing about experimental music at various publications. Blogging at The Road to Sound. Based in NYC.
Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social Typist.
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
Bill Brewster @djhistory.bsky.social DJ, writer, idiot.
Bookings: ryan@thepool-london.com
wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social DJ, producer and professor of musical information.
Contact: wrongtom@gmail.com
Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social Stay afraid, but do it anyway / words: Guardian, Observer, i paper, the Quietus / lecturing: City University / agent: http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/kat-lister / book: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/kat-lister-fragile-bodies-auction-weidenfeld
Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social Freelance writer. Blog about books (https://bookdedications.co.uk & https://livesinlit.com). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.social. All links to all bits: https://linktr.ee/wbgooderham
Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social Writer for newspapers and magazines, sleevenotes etc. Two books: Denim and Leather, and The Gospel of the Hold Steady. QPR supporter, hoping always that change really is possible
Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social There is no I in 'Optometry'
https://linktr.ee/augstone
Substack augstone.substack.com
Puja @puja-words.bsky.social Writer | Freelance music & film | Poetry & screenplays | Bridport Prize 2024 shortlisted | Words in The Quietus/Screensphere/ Filmhounds Mag & Ors
Find me on IG: puja_garia.rd
Lisa Jenkins She/Her @lisaannejenkins.bsky.social Disability Inclusion Advocate | Turning Lived Experience into Lasting Impact | Speaker & Podcast Guest | Empowering Organisations Through Authentic Storytelling
Matt Anniss @sellbydave.bsky.social Author, journalist, researcher, dance music historian, PhD candidate. Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music’ out now on Velocity Press. www.jointhefuture.net
Hayley Scott @hayleyscott.bsky.social Writer and promoter based in Manchester
linktr.ee/hayleycscott
Chris Roberts @chrisroberts123.bsky.social 
Alex Rigotti @alexrigotti.bsky.social Freelance journalist, ex-Radar Editor @NME.com, words at The Quietus, Clash, Dazed, DIY, DJ Mag and more
www.alexrigotti.com
Bernie (allergy pilled) @dhallllc.bsky.social Lapsed artist and recovering curator, music writer for The Quietus, 1/2 of Key Grips on CAMP Radio, 1/2 of Metaphysical Powers 🤷♀️
Stuff here: https://linktr.ee/DHALLLLC
@clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Edinburgh, writing for The Quietus, The Wire, The Times, Big Issue, The List etc
linktr.ee/clairesawers
Tom Bolton @drtombolton.bsky.social tombolton.co.uk
📖Atomic Albion
📖London's Lost Rivers Vols 1 & 2
📖Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods
📖Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
📖Camden Town: Dreams of Another London
✍️Theatre for Plays International
✍️Music for The Quietus
Barnaby Smith @abarnabyms.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher.
Website: https://barnaby-smith.wixsite.com/home
33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House
2nd album released in 2026: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-no-one
Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social Brighton, East Sussex.
I write about the French equivalent of Krautrock.
25 @ResonanceFM shows: bit.ly/FRSradio
Concrete Science Fiction Riot forthcoming on Strange Attractor
Keith Goldhanger @keithgoldhanger.bsky.social Writes words for Louder Than War https://louderthanwar.com/author/keith-goldhanger/ Once made music that not many people except John Peel liked. Also on Facebook & insta - www.facebook.com/KeithGoldhanger www.instagram.com/KeithGoldhanger
John Kennedy @johnkennedydj.bsky.social DJ/Presenter/Producer: X-Posure Radio X Fri & Sat 11pm-2am / X-Posure Daily Global Player Mon-Thu / Tape Notes http://linktr.ee/johnkennedydj
Drowned in Sound | Newsletter & Podcast & Community @drownedinsound.org DiS is one of the original music blogs and online communities, founded back in 2000. Its back as a weekly newsletter about the future of music and as a podcast hosted by founder Sean Adams. ⚓︎ http://drownedinsound.org
Beak> @beakbristol.bsky.social Hello we’re Beak>, global phenomenon and industry legends.
Ben Salisbury @bensalisbury.bsky.social Film and TV composer. Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs, Civil War, Archive 81, Constellation.
JETFURY ii @jetfury.bsky.social PORTISHEAD/BEAK> / Ex Machina / Civil War / Black Mirror / and now for something
Very different.
Clint Mansell @iamclintmansell.bsky.social Love Now More Than Ever
Benefits @benefitstheband.bsky.social Noisy little band from the north east of England.
https://linktr.ee/benefitstheband
L I T R O N I X @litronix.bsky.social You Are Now At Your Highest