Firepit Collective’s To the Lost: folk songs and landscape punks
WORDS: Gary Budden “Delving into traditional folk is on the one hand like hearing the voices of people whose names …
The Sea, a Collaboration Between Gareth E. Rees and Dead Gull
LOCATION: The Sea WORDS: Gareth E. Rees MUSIC: Martin Fuller AKA Dead Gull Below is a poem I performed in …
Welsh Folk Music by Fernhill: Where Geography & Calendars Collide
LOCATION: Swansea MUSIC: ‘Amser’ by Fernhill Inside. Outside. Byth (Ever. Never). Tock Tick. A collision between mechanical time, seasonal time, …
Unofficial Britain Soundtrack 2014
WORDS & MIX: Gareth E. Rees Cover illustration: Maxim Peter Griffin Below is a selection of UK-based music, all released …
Marshland at Spike Island
LOCATION: Bristol (via Hackney) WORDS: Gareth E. Rees On November 27th, I’m going to be at Spike Island in Bristol, …
Kemper Norton’s Loor & the Thing that Is Coming Up My Stairs
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: Cornwall, Sussex, Wales, Unnamed Cities Night time. I’m at my computer, listening to Kemper Norton’s new …
High Rise: a Homage to North East England Brutalism
LOCATION: Gateshead, Tyne & Wear MUSIC: High Rise by Caisson – recorded on location at the site of the former …
Suspected Rural Telephone Poltergeist
A mix of haunted ambience, analogue electronics, drones and telephone boxes by the wonderful The Geography Trip label. Find out …
The Wiccan Circle
MUSIC: Concretism FILM: The Kill Shop WORDS: Gareth E. Rees Here’s some music from the ever-excellent Concretism. Chris Sharp’s world is a …
Jesse Hector and The Hammersmith Gorillas
LOCATION: London DOCUMENTARY: A Message to the World [dir. Caroline Catz] WORDS: Gareth E. Rees This is a fine slice …