Fat Balls & A Lost Wedding Ring at a Sheffield Retail Park
Author of Car Park Life, Gareth E. Rees, recounts the sorry tale of his trip to a retail park in Sheffield in which he encounters the Mad Hatter, fat balls, riverside poetry and loses his wedding ring.
Absurdities and Synchronicities: A Postman’s View of the Everyday
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees reviewing Round About Town, by Kevin Boniface, Uniformbooks 2018 LOCATION: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire IMAGES: Kevin Boniface from Round …
Fieldgate Street
WORDS: Bobby Seal IMAGES: David Hoffman [© David Hoffman] Introduction: When I was a student in London in the 1970s I lived …
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 …
Haunted by a Nuclear Power Station
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: Hastings In 2013 I left London for good. It was traumatic. Fifteen years in that …
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 – …
Psychogeography from Huddersfield to Hackney
The latest episode of Inside Culture on RTE Radio 1 features a report by Regan Hutchins from the 4th World Congress …
Welcome to the Molly House
WORDS: Alex Cochrane In the 18th century the secret world of the molly house was a place for gay men …
Lowriders, Joyriders, Cruisers & Doughnuteers – Car Park Life at Night
LOCATION: A supermarket car park near you, probably. WORDS: Gareth E. Rees In 2014, Plymouth’s Crownhill retail park hosts a nocturnal …
The Gallows Pole: Myth & The Taxonomy of Terrain in Yorkshire’s Rebel Landscape
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: Yorkshire Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole [Bluemoose Books] is a novel about the Cragg Vale …