I feel like Max Headroom would be an example of the American equivalent (although it initially had UK creators).
Would be interested of anything similar in Irish culture or if anything else non-British came to anyone’s minds.

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‘(through sobs) You can’t just say everything is hauntological…
Please…’
(points at cloud) ‘Hauntological’

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Black Mirror desperately wanted to be modern hauntology didn’t it

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I wonder if the future equivalent of Hauntology will be focused around weird creepy internet ads, Wish.co.m and Youtube clickbait-

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This YouTube channel hits on a few American beats - public service broadcasting, emergency alerts, red scare stuff.

I do think a lot of the stuff I’m aware of from the USA is very directly disturbing rather than indirectly sinister - the cults, the deadly theme parks, the abandoned low budget burial grounds.

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US stuff that puts me in mind of this is that kind of just out of tune radio station thing that GY!BE use (Canadians though obvs.)

Forgot I had this. Has an entire chapter about squirrels for some reason!?



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Omg this is perfect!!

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Big fan of Forest Swords who feels hauntological in that he takes a lot of very intangible ancient British stuff that just somehow feels part of our psyche and filters it through a more modern lens of electronica. A sort of hallucination that oscillates between viking longboats, Knightmare, abandoned industrial sites, scouse pop music and rave.

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Yessss feeling this!!!

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that’s a great description. You could say something similar about Craven Faults, whose stuff is explicitly inspired by the post-industrial landscape of Yorkshire, although he works at a much slower and longer scale.

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We used to watch these in primary school (the late eighties/early nineties ones).

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also loving this, thanks for posting :slight_smile:

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Through The Dragons Eye and Dark Towers were definitely contributors to my becoming a spooky nerd as a teen / adult / now.

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If you had watched Geordie Racer you might have wound up becoming a pigeon fancier

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Amazed there was never (to my knowledge anyway) a 90s dance single sampling the wizard Magic E

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Remember being well into Geordie Racer at school

Badger Girl

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Loved Geordie Racer.

The other ones I remember are Earthwarp (about an alien in Blackpool, maybe? Some seaside town) and one set in WWII - Spycatcher or something about spies.

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Possible name for a Mute Branches track / sideproject right here

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Is that the BBC Pride and Prejudice Andrew Davies? Is there a scene where the badger emerges alluringly from a lake?

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