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We have a listening party for Plague Dogs by @heartwood9.bsky.social on Monday 20th April at 8.0pm UK time. You’re all invited and we’d be delighted to see you! folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/plague...

There’s a Q&A with @heartwood9.bsky.social on the Folk Police blog about the new album, and his influences and approach. Dig in! folkpolice.com/qanda-with-t...

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Pre-orders up now for this new release, please support as all profits from this release will be going to Animal Rescue Cumbria : folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/plague...

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Earth Studies Field Trip #1: The Heartwood Institute- Plague Dogs. Out 20th April. youtu.be/5SDSqeZ1-j8?...

Coming on 20th April. The first Earth Studies Field Trip. More soon.

New Heartwood incoming...

Inside the witch is a library of feral spirits, a hundred books that need not be written for their knowledge is best told by tree root and hedge blossom. Her living practice is a curation of wonders and wild wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Selling my 3 octave harmonium - collection only from West Cumbria. £300 or nearest offer.

The mark of the witch is not a third nipple or a refusal to drown, but in a thousand ritual acts as they dance with the land. - Tess Heller, Grey Horse Coven, 1978 #WitchSky

Everyday Ladybird things. The town library (1960) Artist: Harry Wingfield

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An exciting message from Drew Mulholland on #Bandcamp this Monday morning 👇

First release of 2026..... more Henning Zinoviev & Floating Candles, unearthed from the vaults..... henningzinovievfloatingcandles.bandcamp.com/album/lost-i...

Today is Plough Monday - by tradition the start of the agricultural year Artist: John Berry (The Farmer, 1963)

Happy New Year all ! Thanks for your continued support of Heartwood and related projects. Much more new music to release this year 🤘

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

The Ladybird Christmas tree. Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)

Day 19 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. Time for modernist ornaments. We take the chain of electrical pylons from box, the silver wires between them pulled tight. Under them we scatter repurposed dolls and action figures into a march of ragged walkers, Children of The Hum.

Sometimes the images sprayed and spat from aerosol cans onto underpasses are just intended as pretty scenes. Sometimes they represent ghost trees, omenic corvids and fox brides. It's my job know if they are. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1983

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There comes a point when we begin to encounter more polite, respectful and well-mannered ghosts than we do people. This is why I tell those who ask that I prefer the company of spectres to that of the living. - #CJosiffe #Ghosts

When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

There are infections of blood. There are infections of the soul. There are I believe, infections of the place. For the land itself may be wounded by our traumas. Where its psychic skin cracks, the spoilings of rot and wickedness can set in. We call such infections hauntings. – Rev. A. Morley

Goodnight from Gosmer, where the villagers have chosen to burn an effigy of Thatcher the Iron Witch instead of Guy Fawkes. Goodnight from David Appleyard, walking a night filled with bonefire incense and the heady gunpowder smell of exploded fireworks. Goodnight from Hookland.

It's that time of year again...... theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/rituals

Divided Time '79, now available direct - sadly vinyl only shipping to the UK : jonathansharp.bandcamp.com/album/divide...

The modern world in old Ladybird books. “A small digital computer designed for the businessman” (1971) Artist: BH Robinson

Rare live appearance incoming - October 25th, Fell Foot Woods, The Lake District. quob.uk/2025/

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

Please support - doomforpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/doom-f...

"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for #October eves!" By Humbert Wolfe #October1st #BookChatWeekly #Autumn 🎃🍃🍂 🖼️ 'La Bourrasque' (The Gust of Wind) by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, 1896

If you're a newsletter subscriber, today's the last day you can save 25% off the newly released Diva Gemini, Diva Gemini Dark and Diva Gemini Bundle. www.theunfinished.co.uk

Tonight we are going to see Rollerball. Tomorrow we are going to Brent Cross the new shopping centre.

PEG - Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, a group formed by women for stitching and swearing #WomensArt

The Hum was more than a sound. It was the electric ley of the land manifesting. We walked underneath its lines and were transformed. Outsiders called us trespassers, filthy hippies, mad marchers. We just called ourselves Children of The Hum. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

New release day - Carlisle City Council return..... carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/gatewa...

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In having an intimate knowledge of the paths she treads, the witch not only knows where and when to gather herbs, she develops a profound relationship with their ecosystem of spirits. Around this bend wild strawberries, in this stretch the Wood Sprite called Whipfast. – #EmilyCBanting 1981 #WitchSky

Sadly with the various limitations on international postage, I can now no longer ship to the USA or Europe. UK orders only. 🤯

When I pass under a transmission tower, I look up and wish for The Hum to start anew. I want to be one of its children again, to re-connect to the electric ley of the land. Marching the wires and saying: "Fuck you!" to farmers one last time. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person, 1982

Some lanes and tracks hold a feeling of being shadowed on even the fiercest summer days. Shadows due to something more than high hedge and tree. Lanes and tracks that are the territories of temporal shades, thick with the sense of other times breaking through. – #CJosiffe

With tracks from: @heartwood9.bsky.social‬ @bummercampband.bsky.social‬ @bellprover.bsky.social‬ @micro-moon.bsky.social‬ @headtech.bsky.social‬ and more :)

Further audio explorations from Lookout Mountain Laboratory : lookoutmountainlaboratory.bandcamp.com/album/human-...

At Lammas, the borders of Faery expand. They enfold. They entangle. To walk the edge of the field is to risk accidentally crossing into those silvered lands with two moons and unfamiliar stars. No wonder it is regarded as a date of disappearance. – #CLNolan #Lammas

The Hum called us to walk under its lines, to listen to its songs. The Hum called us to become part of the electric ley of the land. It opened up the way into another England and when it stopped, not all of us made it back. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave, ex Pylon Person