Folklorists and Antiquarians
Landscape artist Maxim Griffin, as featured in this very wobbly Unofficial Britain profile, has made some postcards for The Travin …
The Drinker’s London & the Poems of Salena Godden
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees In 2001 I became a weekend DJ in Filthy McNasty’s, a pub in Islington, sadly no …
Hand of Stabs: Asemic Approach
LOCATION: On a road between town and country, wakefulness and dreaming MUSIC: Hand of Stabs FILM: Giles Whitehead WORDS: Gareth …
The Warren is Empty: Watership Down and Fall of Efrafa
LOCATION: A Warren, Somewhere WORDS: Gary Budden When most people my age think of Watership Down their minds tend to …
London Murder Poems
WARNING – contains explicit, violent imagery. Not for the squeamish or the easily offended. LOCATION: London WORDS & PICTURES: Martin Hayes …
The Hell Fire Caves
LOCATION: West Wycombe Melmoth the Wanderer makes queasy, occult music mixes that explore uncanny British geographies. Snippets of dialogue ooze through ambient …
Beowulf in Faversham? In search of a Kentish Grendel
LOCATION: Kent WORDS & PICTURES by GARY BUDDEN It’s a compelling thought.; the monster Grendel inhabiting the bleak marshlands of the …
The Spiritual Hymn of A Broken Pipe in Devon
Duality Field #1 by Laica LOCATION: DEVON Electronic artist Laica specialises in dark, broken techno and brooding industrial atmospheres. A recent piece, Environs, pushed …
The Words on the Streets
By Gareth E. Rees Signs, signs, they’re everywhere on our streets, telling jokes and stories. Here are some favourites, taken …
An Abandoned Monument to Arrogance
LOCATION: KENT Neolithic soul drone collective Hand of Stabs perform ‘Hallux Working’ by a derelict monument to a man who …