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Uncanny Landscapes: From Pylon Love & Mad Benches to Car Park Epiphanies

WORDS: Gareth E. Rees EVENT: Uncanny Landscapes at The Hastings Storytelling Festival, November 9th, 7pm, Havelock Road, Hastings (FREE) I’ve been …

The North London Museum of Native American Culture: A Southeastern Rail Shaggy Dog Story

LOCATION: Southeastern Rail, London, Hastings WORDS: Ben Thompson The first time I saw Tex (and although at that point I …

The Fate of England’s ‘Infant Hercules’

A review of Stripped Tees: Endurance and Hope in the North East by Richard Milward and Natalie Hardwick [Influx Press, …

Outer Space Travel In Manchester’s Makro

LOCATION: Manchester WORDS: Gareth E. Rees I only remember Makro because of its car park, the space outside the place. …

Pier Pressure: Matchbook etiquette and Dizzee Rascal’s Birthday Cake

LOCATION: Hastings, East Sussex WORDS: Ben Thompson Piers are by definition irrational structures – temporary institutions, neither sea, nor land, …

The Cornish Lost Kingdom & The Oil Spill: A Catastrophic Soundscape

LOCATION: Cornwall ALBUM: Kemper Norton, ‘Toll’  LABEL: Front and Follow  WORDS: Gareth E. Rees Kemper Norton’s new concept album brings …

Enon Chapel: death, horror and dancing in Victorian London

LOCATION: London WORDS: Alex Cochrane Victorian London was a charnel house of the dead; a city oozing horror and nowhere …

And Also the Trees: Born Into The Waves (An appreciation)

WORDS: Justin Hopper Born Into the Waves is a series of offerings, not of events; of settings, not actions. It …

On the Trail of the Green Man: An interview with Nina Lyon

WORDS: Gary Budden I spoke to author Nina Lyon about her latest book Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green …

The Helm Wind of Cumbria

LOCATION: Cumbria WORDS & IMAGES: Eijls  ‘When heard and felt for the first time it does not seem so very …