Next up from Spoken Label (Our Spoken Word / Writer Podcast) features Part 2 of our extended chat with the Environmental Poetry collection ‘I am Nature’, this time an extended chat with the wonderful Andrew Sumner and Patricia (Pat) Sumner. andynartist.substack.com/p/i-am-natur... #poetry

Coming next week, not one bit of music but two - A new single by Mandy in a Bottle (Amanda Nicholson - Author and I) and a new 5-track EP by Ward (Courtney Ward and I). #music #poetry #ambient #ambientmusic #spokenword

Genevieve F Ray R.I.P. andynartist.substack.com/p/genevieve-...

See you all 2moro. Me and Amanda are headlining Write Out Loud Sale. £3 admission. Open Mic available #poetry #spokenword #manchesterpoetry #manchesterspokenword

#podcast #writingpodcast #supernatural #ghost #authorchat #author New from Spoken Label (Author Podcast), the return of Amanda Nicholson andynartist.substack.com/p/amanda-nic...

Introducing my new novel 'Last Orders' out on March 06 2026. "Justice is served at 10.00am, but the real story always starts much earlier." www.youtube.com/shorts/N6ahK... Will be available on all of the usual places. #justice #novelunwrapping #novel #fiction #drama #fictionnovel #court

A week tonight taking a break from Speak Easy, our spoken word open mic night with Steve Smythe, Andy N and Amanda are headlining Write Out Loud's monthly event at the Sale Waterside Centre. Open mic night is available. 7.30pm start £3 admission #manchesterpoetry #poetry

andynartist.substack.com/p/new-book-r... new music out and a new book review on Threads #book #music #ambient #drone #fictionnovel #bookreview

Latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Author / ArtistPodcast) features making her debut, Lucy Beth. Lucy Beth (she/her/hers) is a multi-award-winningemerging performer, theatre-maker. #poetry #podcast #poetrypodcast #spokenwordpodcast andynartist.substack.com/p/lucy-beth-...

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hannahkate.net/north-manche... I've got a review coming up today on the wonderful Hannah's Bookshelf on North Manchester on North Manchester FM between 2pm and 4pm off my recent book 'Threads' as A.E. Nicholson (More news to follow on my next novel next week 'Last Orders)

A little bit of ambient / drone fun for #bandcampfriday oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/album/homage... #windows98 #ambient #drone (New Ward single to follow next week)

A little bit of ambient / drone fun for #bandcampfriday oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/album/homage... #windows98 #ambient #drone (New Ward single to follow next week)

andynartist.substack.com/p/i-am-natur... 1st of a two part podcast for poetry podcast spoken label talking about environmental poetry #environmental #environmentalpoetry #poetry #poetrypodcast

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Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend Sarah James (also known as Sarah Leavesley ) talking about her new poetry book 'Darling Blue'. andynartist.substack.com/p/sarah-jame... #spokenword #spokenwordpodcast #podcast #poetry #poetrypodcast

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Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) and our 2nd Podcast of the year, features making her debut, the wonderful Suzy Aspell. #poetrypodcast #spokenword #spokenwordpodcast #poetry #podcast andynartist.substack.com/p/suzy-aspel...

Back with our first Podcast of 2026, Spoken Label (Spoken Word/ Poetry Podcast)'s 1st show of the year features Hongwei Bao. onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2026/01/hong... #poetry #poetrypodcast #spokenwordpodcast #spokenword

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First new ambient album by my ambient band Ocean in a Bottle in over 18 months and I am over the moon with this. Thanks Yann camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/album/soundt... #ambient #drone #music #ambientmusic #dronemusic #music

I've got a new Ocean in a bottle album out shortly on the amazing Camembert Électrique records on 09 January 2025, but to lead into it, another new track has appeared on Brian John Mitchell's wonderful Silber Records on 'Now that's what I still call silence' #ambient #noise

andynartist.substack.com/p/the-years-... Music news and views from 2025 into 2026 #ambient #extrememusic #drone #dreams #experimentalmusic #music

Happy Boxing Day all. I've got some ambient work as Andy N, Ocean in a bottle and Distance on this truly epic comp. Thanks to Yann for putting us on it. camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/album/iceloc... #ambient #music #ambientmusic #noise #drone #ambientdrone

camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/album/iceloc... three of my ambient bands (Andy N, Ocean in a Bottle and Distance) all have tracks on this 13 hour comp. It's first rate stuff #ambient #noise #experimental

camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/album/iceloc... three of my ambient bands (Andy N, Ocean in a Bottle and Distance) all have tracks on this 13 hour comp. It's first rate stuff #ambient #noise #experimental

An 12 word Christmas Ghost Story TICKET OF DEATH: TRAVELLING HOME FROM GUIDE BRIDGE ON CHRISTMAS EVE 00:12, the ticket said he would die, the Tannoy confirmed it twice. (An 12 word Christmas story entrance for this competition - pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/12-word-ch...

I wasn’t planning to write a end of year review this year (continued on: andynartist.substack.com/p/when-creat...) #writing #blog #novel #poetry #flashfiction

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend with an extended chat, tea buff, weird fiction aficionado and abstracted songwriter, Eric Loveland Heath, professionally known as E.L. Heath. onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/12/eric... #epic45 #elheath

A bonus story out tomorrow in the world of Threads out 2moro called 'Father Christmas at Guide Bridge' (Book is here -https://www.amazon.co.uk/Threads-Nicholson/dp/B0FT3LSG9C) exclusively on my substack page - andynartist.substack.com #ChristmasBook #FestiveReads #Christmas #Winter #Xmasstories

onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-... Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry / Author Podcast) features Shan Powell. #podcast #horror #author #writer #bskypodcast #bskypodcast #bskywritingcommunity #bskywritingcommunity

Busy weekend: first up, we have a story featured on Hannah's Bookshelf (hannahkate.net/two-festive-...), from 2 pm to 4 pm, and then 2moro, me and Amanda are featured guests with the always lovely Ruth O'Reilly on Levenshulme's AllFM (www.allfm.org) from 3 pm to 5 pm.

A new Romance story of mine, ‘The Wedding Weekend Before Christmas,’ has just been published on Micromance Magazine (Thanks, guys). A somewhat different version can be found in my book ‘Threads’, available here - www.amazon.co.uk/Threads-Nich...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features Zoe Mitchell. onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-... #poetrypodcast #spokenwordpodcast #spokenword #poetry

Two old/new tracks by Ocean in a bottle and Distance (the latter is 47 minutes long!) have appeared on this very noisy, experimental comp by Silber Records. Over the moon to be featured alongside Alan Sparrowhawk and Robert Poss among others. silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/almost...

www.mixcloud.com/.../the-sund... 1st bit of airplay for the Ward EP (oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/.../ward-bli...) here today - just over a hour in and also a feature of a story spoofing my own Threads book too (www.amazon.co.uk/Threads-Nich...)

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A new EP for #bandcampfriday from my new band 'Ward' featuring myself and Courtney Ward is out today. oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/album/ward-b... #music #ambient #spokenword #poetry #bandcampmusic #experimental

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Likely as A.E. Nicholson rather than Andy N, but this is looking pretty good now - just hit 52,000 words and still have another 70 pages to re-edit before I get to the final edit over Xmas. Aiming for Feb / Mar 25 release #book #novel #newbook #newnovel

Editing this morning on Novel 3. (My Court stories novel). Just realised I have got 125 pages roughly edited aka 51,500 words or so. Things are defo starting to get serious.

Enclosed below are the readers (Not the running order) for the next Speak Easy (our spoken word open mic night) at Dulicmer, Chorlton on Thurs 04 December 2025. #spokenwordopenmic #spokenword #poetryopenmic #poetry #openmic #chorltonopenmic #chorlton #manchesterpoetry

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Latest up from Spoken Label Podcast (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making her debut is the wonderful Saira Anwar (Saira the Poet). onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-... #poetrypodcast #podcast #spokenword #spokenwordpodcast