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Rare gig news - we are supporting Gnod at The Piper, St Leonards May 16th - tickets here: share.google/TbuBHYJKG2O4...

Done! Yep, those were the people I thought of! For those unfamiliar, this group mixes spoken word poetry with heavy psychedelic music. The effect can be a bit unsettling or hilarious, depending on the topics. I very much recommend to try out at least the track "Bin Day"! Highly, highly recommended!

#NowPlaying If this is the same Black Arches I'm thinking of, this is going to be a somewhat weird start to the week, but I'll take it! I also see @nicbrown.bsky.social in the supporters again... I swear I'm not stalking you, Nic! 😆 Going in! blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Released today via our bandcamp page... Black Arches with Sexton Ming 'Live at the Strongroom' blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Terminal Zones by Gareth E. Rees https://www.booksns.com/191229/ I loved the stories “A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes” and “Thenar Space” because the exploration of unconventional characters (The former is about a man falling in love with a disused electricity pylon, and the latter is about a …

As our latest opus nears completion, why not fill the time by downloading the previous KN albums from our " Cornish Industrial " range ? Brunton Calciner, Oxland Cylinder and Lowermoor are all available from a pound on our site for today only x kempernorton.bandcamp.com/album/oxland...

[News] Black Arches With Sexton Ming unveil the live video for "The Sailor's Daughter" from their album "Folly" @rocketrecordings.bsky.social progrockjournal.com/news-black-a... #PRJ #BlackArches #SextonMing #LiveVideo #NewRelease #RocketRecordings #SextonMing #Experimental #PsychRock #MusicNews

Finished THE STONE TIDE by @garetherees.bsky.social last night, read in three sittings over five days. An incredible piece of work that makes you crawl inside yourself and examine your flaws and mistakes just as the narrator does. With added Hastings psychogeography and pain and grief.

2020 #82 The final book finished in 2020 was this eclectic novel full of psychogeography and strange goings on in Hastings from @garetherees.bsky.social and @influxpress.bsky.social . There's some blurb in the alt text as usual and this remains one of my personal favourite. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💡📚 #booksky

This was one of the locations I explored in 'Unofficial Britain': the site of the former steelworks where my grandfather and uncle worked in the '70s. share.google/vpOu9fvu4J03...

Hackney-based artist, Nick Jensen has made a series of paintings inspired by my book 'Marshland' for his exhibition at the Paul Smith Gallery, which includes a new short fiction I penned for the occasion www.meer.com/en/102905-dr... cc @influxpress.bsky.social

the sheer weirdness of Victorian classifieds

Afrosound - El Regreso de E.T. el Extraterrestre [Colombia, Cumbia/Afrobeat/Disco/Space/Rock] [1983] - this is just crazy as it sounds https://redd.it/518rng https://youtu.be/R_5xtN8CUYk

In March, we released 'Folly' a collaboration with Sexton Ming on @rocketrecordings.bsky.social blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/black-... "The Arches trio cover every blade of astral grass with rare Faust-cubed abstraction." - The Quietus

And I made a video about bins youtu.be/OXvHXTFfI-w?...

Also this year, I played some guitar and shouted some vocals on some of the tracks on 'Things that never happened' by Black Adastra @blackadastra.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/C0rENUavzU9Z...

From earlier this year - my tuppenceworth on inner city motorways and cardigans - 'Monstrosities Mon Amour: Junction 3 of the M32 in Bristol' - with @grindrod.bsky.social johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...

I wrote a micro piece about midwinter sunshine and interstellar visitors for @necessaryfiction.com's 'Points of Light' necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

2020 #55 My first encounter with the distinctive work of @garetherees.bsky.social , one of the best chroniclers of modern Britain around. Love the quote that described this as a "retail park Heart of Darkness." 😄 There's info in the alt text and I loved it. @influxpress.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💡📚 #booksky

Day 2 of our solstice gathering features writing by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, Catherine Reedy, Kendra Cardin, @garetherees.bsky.social, @nonabiding.bsky.social, @erinkeane.bsky.social, @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social, Lleyton Michael Kane, and Warren Stoddard II. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

Day One of our solstice gathering features writing by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social, @travisflatt.bsky.social, @raymondbrunell.bsky.social, @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, @janewords.bsky.social, Talya Byrd, Carol M. Quinn, Tanya Kornilovich, and Joe Kalovac. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

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