Jim Mortleman

IT journo, writer, parodist; punster; puzzler; potty-mouth; penner of odes; podcaster; free thinker; synth tinkerer; dad; hat fan. Also @[email protected]

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

Tweeted Love: Twitter in all its diversity - from mundanity to perversity - "sings" Soft Cell. Enjoy. https://t.co/pRUlHKQkbi

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

It's a miserable #BlueMonday. We're months from another holiday, it's freezing outside, and Trump's gurning mug is all over the news.

Need cheering up? Look no further.
https://t.co/uuBHVwuAKK

🟦 Help beat the blues - please share!

#bluemonday2025 #comedy #humour #neworder

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

@neworder @theCALMzone Ordered mine. And if you need cheering up today, here's a video I made to raise a chuckle. 🙂
#bluemonday
https://t.co/QptxMXYHBY

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

@neworder @01BSumnerr @gillian_gilbert @stephenpdmorris @peterhook @The_OtherTwo @Peston BTW, if you enjoyed the video, please consider supporting the suicide prevention charity CALM, perhaps by buying this great new #BlueMonday t-shirt from @neworder...
https://t.co/qjYAHr0Xef

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

It's a miserable #BlueMonday. We're months from another holiday, it's freezing outside, and Trump's gurning mug is all over the news.

Need cheering up? Look no further.
https://t.co/uuBHVwuAKK

🟦 Help beat the blues - please share!

#bluemonday2025 #comedy #humour #neworder

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

(With 🎩 hat tips and apologies to @neworder 
@01BSumnerr @gillian_gilbert @stephenpdmorris @peterhook @The_OtherTwo @peston.)

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

Always good to check out the purveyors of vinyl when you're abroad. Picked up the Associates first album and an Ultravox bootleg here.

[Acceptableinthe80s @intheeighties]

Coming soon

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

@intheeighties Another one for the #whoasongs list (from Basildon's finest*)... https://t.co/prIAY4SwIx

(*Fletch excepted, whose cuntishness 17yo me was - like you - exposed to when I saw him in The Spice of Life in the West End and got told to fuck off after I said I was a fan)

[Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog]

Here is some of Suzanne’s kit

[Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog]

@Jimjar @ElectronicMagUK I saw her at Hidden Notes festival in Stroud, Gloucestershire 2 days later and it had been returned….

[Acceptableinthe80s @intheeighties]

Brand new episode of Acceptable In the 80s with @kuntandthegang & Roy
Listen wherever you get your pods or
https://t.co/p02w6RJpda
LINK IN BIO

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

Anyone know if Suzanne Ciani has been reunited with her lost Buchla yet? @ElectronicMagUK? I do hope so.

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

OMG the airline sent Suzanne Ciani's Buchla to Budapest so she was unable to play live at Union Chapel tonight. Rescued the evening by playing a previously recorded gig through the quadrophonic soundsystem then did a Q&A. Hope you're reunited with your synth soon, @sevwave. ❤️

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

Just running through my holiday photos and realised this waterfall in Arnisdale reminded me of someone... 😄

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

@iambillwaters @sevwave Agree the venue should have mentioned it and offered a refund to those who wanted one. Yes, disappointing not to have seen Ciani interacting with her Buchla, but I still enjoyed the evening and loved hearing 'Four Sequences' in quadrophonic sound in a venue with great acoustics.

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

OMG the airline sent Suzanne Ciani's Buchla to Budapest so she was unable to play live at Union Chapel tonight. Rescued the evening by playing a previously recorded gig through the quadrophonic soundsystem then did a Q&A. Hope you're reunited with your synth soon, @sevwave. ❤️

[Union Chapel London @UnionChapelUK]

TONIGHT 🎵 "Diva of the Diode" and "America's first female synth hero" SUZANNE CIANI takes to the Union Chapel stage.

Fri 20 Sep
Doors 7pm
Hekla 8pm
Interval 8.30pm
Suzanne Ciani 9pm

Last chance tickets at https://t.co/PLjVizhkyj

@sevwave

[Photo: Maria Jose Govea]

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Banning smoking in an outside space is the worst kind of prurient, hectoring, interfering, puritanical bullshit. No health basis to it whatsoever. Just a flat-out act of social control.

[Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton]

The Opening Ceremony begins. A man walks out under a spotlight, pauses, looks around. He shrugs. More spotlights ignite. Ten men, twenty. One hundred middle aged French men, all shrugging in time. An orchestral version of Ca Plane Pour Moi begins to swell. Incredible. #Olympics

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

@robinrimbaud ...oh, and Stan Shaff, founder of SF's experimental sound theatre Audium who, if he's still alive, must be in his mid 90s (I'm pretty sure he made it through COVID, though, so 🤞)

[Jim Mortleman @Jimjar]

@robinrimbaud Suzanne Ciani (she's in London in September, too); Bruce Gilbert & Edvard Graham Lewis