Time capsule of brilliance. Defiant. Different. Inspiring.

Just stopped still for this on R3. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgcZ...

If you have listened to ‘Goose Barnacle Goose’ and wondered what the ‘Red Beacons’ mentioned are. Here they are. From a film made round about this time last year.

Mistletoe for the solstice.

“…and fresh penguin eggs a treat…”

Going in.

This is a really good read: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/carlisles-.... ‘Void Rates’ in ‘Dabbin Houses’ attempts to balance what these places promised and what they delivered.

Somewhat unexpectedly this first run of the new issue of my zine seems like it will sell out imminently - I probably will reprint next year but if you want a copy soon, you might want to order! assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

Saturday lunchtime…

This is a really good read: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/carlisles-.... ‘Void Rates’ in ‘Dabbin Houses’ attempts to balance what these places promised and what they delivered.

The part of ‘Dabbin Houses’ called ‘Void Rates’ is about the movement of people to the towns of England to utopias: ‘anti-socialist’ as in this example, and others.

Good morning everyone. The 3rd issue of my IN THE APRIL SUN indie pop fanzine is now on sale. I have stock in hand so will be posting out right away. It's a beautiful issue, so do share/grab one. It has some lovely stuff in it; Heavenly, the Lemonheads, Chime School, The Felt Tips & much more.

“They taught us to read and we thought we were so grand as to join heaven and earth. But all we did was wallpaper over the crack between myth and science and lose our homes.” Always inspiring.

Spending time with an artefact.

Records that seem good value when you’re drunk. An occasional series.

In sleep, in dream song, the daylight ghosts are laid and trouble us no more. In silence nightlong a life’s debts are paid at the open door. 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Crows on the fields. Water held. Reminds me of making this.

God this is a difficult read. Not because of the grammar, or thematic content per se, but because of every single page describes the power networks that create Trumps and Farages, and their common or garden counterparts.

“Perhaps underneath the soundrel that I am there lies a poet gone astray.”

Crows on the fields. Water held. Reminds me of making this.

Mistakes sometimes become your favourite iterations. I came to like this mis-stamp so much, I kept hold of it.

Many poets leave a book behind as soon as it's published, but that's the moment I feel I'm only just getting to know it...

Mistakes sometimes become your favourite iterations. I came to like this mis-stamp so much, I kept hold of it.

If dark English magic is up your mistletoe(d) tree, then you could give us a whirl this Bandcamp Friday. Spoken word. Some noises. Over the red beacons.

Thanks to everyone who's got behind this today! It's been wonderful watching the orders come in. Getting on for half of the run gone, which is great stuff! Still plenty left of course.

These will be available tomorrow! Issue 3 of IN THE APRIL SUN has been, as ever, a labour of love.

"The nature of a pop-up is that it is drawing to a close from the moment that it opens. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can help to give it focus and purpose." SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log

#MusicSky #NowListening @nightjrrs.bsky.social Dabbin Houses/Goose Barnacle Goose 12" Winter sun through the window, starlings swirling outside, slow time in sonic transport... Sometimes, all is beautiful... 🖤😎👍😉

Very touched that out strange, sometimes arhythmic record about architecture, rural decay and dark English magic found listeners. Thank you - especially to @blueastronaut.bsky.social .

First published as a 'digital pamphlet' in 2023, and briefly available as a print edition in 2024, here's the free, downloadable PDF of our 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology, with poems apt for the year's end, and the year to come. longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...

I’ve followed Galia Admoni’s writing for a while. I think the more men that read this collection, the better.

This has been much delayed but I’m expecting copies from the printer this Wednesday and it’ll be on sale next Friday morning! Thanks for your patience, pals. And your encouragement!

Tindersticks have many brilliant spoken word pieces/parts. Just listening to ‘My Sister’ and I’m struck by how one of the facets of the ‘song’ is how unknowable someone else is:

Words and music. This is a live bit of the fourth track from the next 12”: ‘Veronika’.

Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone, cutting shingle. 'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing' thefooting.wordpress.com

'It is the best anthology of new work that I’ve read in years; anyone with an interest in contemporary British poetry should read it.' - Billy Mills Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted) thefooting.wordpress.com

I’m easing into the Friday listen.

“All that’s solid melts into air…” (a microscopically different, ditched mix of future AA side).

To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden. Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Pick a book, any book

Oh yes…

“…I remember all the things you said… I remember all the things you said…”

“…over the Red Beacons…”

This is a brilliant book.

If digital purchases are your thing, our sold out first album is available that way. Here’s a flavour of lead track ‘Ending Chairs’: nightjrrs.bandcamp.com/album/interr....

Conversation from the mixing desk: Nightjrr: Can we adjust the singing at the end? Studio engineer : Of course. ‘Nightjrr: Can you make it more Methodist? Studio engineer: More Methodist? Nightjrr: More Methodist. Studio engineer:

One of the tracks for the forthcoming 12”. Going into the studio to do final mixes next month.

Yes, you’re right. I am listening to Keith Jarrett albums to avoid listening to yesterday’s studio mixes.

Spent the day in the studio mixing the four tracks that will become our next 12”.

If you fancy a copy, just drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you (U.K., mainland Europe, Canada and Oceania)...