Beer Cans, Wildflowers and a Dead Dog’s Ashes – A Dream Life Beneath the Pylon of Hackney Marsh
With the remains of his dead dog in a cardboard tube, Gareth E. Rees returns to the pylon that sparked his edgeland obsession
Ghosts of the Motorway
A haunting new video for a modern motorway ballad evokes memories of journeys past
Alternative Soundtracks to a Luxury Apartments Advert
Front & Follow release music in response to an excruciating commercial for Deansgate Square Flats in Manchester
Elegy for an Industrial Estate flattened to make way for Luxury Apartments
A new film by Martin Fuller, with music by Pett Level Sounds, explores a vanishing way of life
The Tragedy of the Hastings U-Boat: a Soundtrack
A new video about the dark events of April 1919, when something monstrous approached the beach of Hastings
Shadowlands: Light and Darkness on the Urban Edge
In Nigel Dawson’s photographic mutations of the everyday, human ghosts lurk within shadowy high-rise housing estates, derelict buildings and industrial edgelands.
Hastings’ 1919 U-Boat Wreck: Dark Omen, Harbinger of Chaos, Agent of Eris
WORDS: Gareth E Rees MUSIC: Wave Seer (Gareth E. Rees and James Weaver) In May 1919, the decommissioned U-boat 118 …
The Journey of a Memorial Bench, from Woodland Walk to Basement Techno
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees MUSIC: Fireflies ft Gareth E. Rees In 2014 I went on a long walk through Brede …
Uncanny Waters: Life and Death by Coasts and Canals
LOCATION 1: London, The Social, 28th February – tickets here LOCATION 2: Hastings, Electric Palace Cinema, 2nd March 2018 – …
A Prospect of Loughton Brook
MUSIC & WORDS: Spaceship (Mark Williamson) LOCATION: Epping Forest A Prospect of Loughton Brook was recorded using binaural and hydrophone …