If you are still looking for a "stocking filler" please bear in mind that "The Anechoic Chamber" is a slimline A-format paperback, so it fits snugly in a standard men's sock or the pocket of a winter coat. This also means savings on wrapping paper, postage, etc. and it's only £9.99.

28 days later on the Forth Road Bridge....

The crossing.

Spent the past few nights in a pre-WWI gun battery on the Firth of Forth trove.scot share.google/vr3egGRKvcjD...

"The Arches trio cover every blade of astral grass with rare Faust-cubed abstraction." Great to see Black Arches & Sexton Ming's album 'Folly' in @thequietus.com's 'Best New Weird Britain Albums of 2025': thequietus.com/tq-charts/co...

New Weird Britain: 2025 in review @thequietus.com features Black Arches with Sexton Ming's album 'Folly' thequietus.com/tq-charts/co...

Occult connections in North Queensferry

A herd of sauropods migrates south across the firth.

Life beneath the bridge.

Been getting up close and personal with this bridge.

To celebrate the 1st of December we have compiled a 'Best of 2025' playlist of tracks taken from all our Rocket's releases from this year. It is not really a 'Best Of', just a selection of tracks we have picked - one track per release. Listen here: Soundcloud: on.soundcloud.com/hIZ6JjHe4qdK...

Watch Black Arches + Sexton Ming performing the track 'The Sailors Daughter', filmed live at the Other Side Promotion's show at Strongroom in London on 16 August 2025: youtu.be/GsERp-1YlSI Pick up one of the last copies of the band's debut album 'Folly' here: rocketrecordings.com/products/folly

My novel 'The Stone Tide' and my short story book 'Terminal Zones' are both half price this weekend via @influxpress.bsky.social BLACK FRIDAY SALE share.google/pCF7QcOufUyJ...

Black Arches with Sexton Ming 'The Sailor's Daughter' - New live video with added fish and hermit cave via @rocketrecordings.bsky.social youtu.be/GsERp-1YlSI?...

BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.

LIVE : Black Arches with Sexton Ming, 16/08/2025 Strongroom Bar / Other Side Promotions - London (UK) youtu.be/kDmUcQPbgq4

There’s now ten episodes of Monstrosities Mon Amour available! That’s a lot of cheery chat about unloved and unfairly maligned places… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... - The Golden Mile with Kathryn Ferry - The Drum, Margate, with Dan Thompson - The Blue Bridge with Catherine Croft

New arrival by @drtombolton.bsky.social via @strangeattractor.bsky.social

Here's the sound from canal level, under the road almost 50 years later.

Archive footage of Spaghetti Junction, the day before it opened in 1972. The reviewer was a bit worried about the tight turns.

Cracking Andrew Weatherall soundtrack. Preferably immerse yourself whilst reading the excellent @garetherees.bsky.social 'Marshland', exploring the wonders of #Walthamstow marshes and beyond. To enter this wonderland you must shrink yourself at the 5ft bridge... www.mixcloud.com/Hackneymarsh...

Monstrosities Mon Amour is on a summer break, but will be back soon. In the meantime I can’t believe there’s already nine episodes! What a lot of cheery chat about unloved things johngrindrod.substack.com/podcast

This Saturday catch Black Arches doing our weird thing with Sexton Ming at our first ever London show, supporting Japanese psych band Quajaku at the Strongroom in Shoreditch. Tickets: www.gigantic.com/other-side-p...

#NewMusic2025 Black Arches & Sexton Ming - Folly @brucegeob.bsky.social @paulakeenan.bsky.social @coinneachrooney.bsky.social

The 'ship goo' story immediately reminded me of "We Are The Disease" from @garetherees.bsky.social "Terminal Zones" www.jalopnik.com/1906461/grea...

Just delivered from Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social @garetherees.bsky.social #adamscovell

I contributed guitar and vocals to some of the tracks on this ace album blending raucous postpunk with motorik psych jams and weird electronic detours elasticstage.com/blackadastra

Short snippet of yesterday's noisy shenanigans - Black Arches with Sexton Ming at Tough Love records in St Leonards

Getting all the right notes in the wrong order tomorrow afternoon at Tough Love record shop in St Leonards.

@lazaruscorporation.co.uk Hi Paul - details of tomorrow afternoon's gig (if you happen to be free)

Whorl is out now via @crackedankles.bsky.social ! Check out the animated music video by Yin Wrong here: youtu.be/a29YKIuIUxY?...

The bone collector caterpillar 'disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so it can live among spiders and poach their prey'. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

"Like trauma regression therapy carried out in the back room of a jazz club" - great review by @spennyt.bsky.social of Black Arches with Sexton Ming's album via @rocketrecordings.bsky.social in the latest issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

…hold on a minute…

"Thorpe Marsh is like a microcosmic version of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone." 'Thorpe Marsh Apocalypse': a new post by Steve Ely on the Longbarrow Blog longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/t... 'Debris Field': a photo-essay on the Longbarrow Substack longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/debris-field

The sadness in its eyes...

The couples you meet on the street.

A few shots of our townsfolk from yesterday's Jack-in-the-Green shenanigans (Hastings edition).

RELEASED TODAY: 'Folly' by Black Arches with Sexton Ming Collaborative work from English author Gareth E. Rees and The Medway Poets outsider artist, a total genre-melding trip of surrealist psychedelia. @garetherees.bsky.social @rocketrecordings.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2085...

Sexton Ming (masked) and me (knob twiddling) on stage - come and check us out in our first ever Black Arches London gig in August, supporting the Japanese heavy psych band QUJAKU www.gigantic.com/other-side-p...

As 'tis Bandcamp Friday, here's the digital version of 'Folly', my band's album of noisy esoteric psychedelia with outsider artist, Sexton Ming, released on vinyl earlier this year by @rocketrecordings.bsky.social blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/black-...

JUST IN! 'Folly' by Black Arches with Sexton Ming English author Gareth E. Rees and the cult outsider artist team up for an LP of experimental rock, industrial, krautrock, and all sorts of other surreal psych-scaping moments. @rocketrecordings.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2085...

I'm spinning a few of my favourite Fall tracks at this tomorrow night.

"‘Folly’ is the result of collaboration between the town’s improv-psych heads Black Arches and arch-maverick outsider artist Sexton Ming, and it’s a dive into mystery and magick as perverse and potent as any this seaside landscape has birthed." blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/black-...

apropos of appropriately nothing I just remembered about the -kind of- existence of Null Island, always thought it would make an incredible base of operations for some kind of comic book secret/paranormal organisation who operate in between the cracks of reality en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Is...

"I fear that before many years have elapsed the Sirens of the Naturalist will have disappeared from our earth, before the advance of civilization, as completely as the fables and superstitions with which they have been connected" publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...

It pleases us mightily to announce a Séance for the Summer as manifest on Jun 14 in Brighton by Teleplasmiste @markopilkington.bsky.social, Rose Io, Kemper Norton @kempernorton.bsky.social Map 71, Elkka Nyoukis & Karen Constance @smackmusic.bsky.social Tix! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-seance-f...

From British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions, Wirt Sikes 1880.

Post Industrial Noise - Symphony Of A Mind (1983) [USA, Minimal Wave] https://redd.it/8qgw6l https://youtu.be/93Ek7O0YR18