Held By Trees – Talk Talk’s Legacy lives on and is rooted in Dorset

You Need to see / hear this band https://www.wegottickets.com/event/593559#

26th April they play In Chelmsford

read about them in objective words here and Classic Pops ( love that mag ) amazing article on Held By Trees

https://open.spotify.com/embed/artist/1ymZF1ZIsHaqneEoqAi7lz?utm_source=generator

I’m not gonna rant and rave ( well maybe a bit …) but at the risk of sounding like a total loon I’ve had an epiphany / amazing tripple whammy concidence after a big life change

I started working at an amazing company ( warm) it was an amzing experience but also quite stressful for a number of reasons I wont go into the best thing about it was I got to know the amazing and talented Mickey Browne

we worked side by side me as a booking agent and handling multiple tasks/ spinning plates and he running the Re: warm label , getting to work with Mickey and hang out and talk music was / is one of the great pleausres of my life in all honesty.

he gave me loads of great opportunities / laughs and encouragement to ( usually too blue to publish )

I Joke but he is my ROCK and I’m living laughing and loving again xx (eeeee thanks doll face )

1 ) First eeerie coicidence / jungian synchronicty theory in action

Often I would get totally distracted by Mickeys work as he would be playing new / old songs that were going to be included on the various Warm compilations

He was playing the latest comp of the label and night Afficianado ( , DJs Jason Boardman and Moonboots more on them here

and the first track was by Held By Trees – and I had heard it before after good pal and friend of Kerry Robinson Chris Mears sent it to me after we had reconnected after many years and got talking about Talk Talk ( boom tish )

BOOOM sonic booom 

at the Time of hearing it I was blown away and I had forgotten that Chris had mentioned his involvement, months later I got in touch with mutual pal of Mearsey and Kerry  Chris Peddley musician , film maker , face and and bit of a legend as I wanted to get back to DJing and putting on live gigs after a short spurt with Tom Moon at the Poole Hill Brewery nights Desert Shore I mentioned In the Trees and wanting to get involved and maybe put them on and what did he know about them and that they are incredible and I knew a bit about the Talk Talk legacy but not that much but I was ravenous to know more and so is Mickey …

in short

Held By Trees’ debut album brings together eight alumni of the revered Talk Talk albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, and Mark Hollis’ only solo album on new instrumental music.
Alongside the likes of Robbie McIntosh (guitar), Martin Ditcham (drums), Simon Edwards (bass) and Phill Brown (mix), the album also features…
Tim Renwick (Guitar – Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Eric Clapton)
Mike Smith (Saxophone – Blur, Gorillaz, Jamiroquai)
Gary Alesbrook (Trumpet – Super Furry Animals, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher)
Blues/roots legend Eric Bibb.

Boom – 2 number 2 coincidence / event

he said Im going to see / chat with David at my friends studio and do you want to come along meet and have a look – I immediately thought this is so odd / amazing / spoooky

thats a seperate entity in itself the studio – it is rediculous with its own reverb chamber made from a basement ( dig the cosmic hole ! ) – I’m hoping to send some cosmic messages between musicians I love and send them to this unearthly echo womb ( more on this studio at a later date )

I digress

Booooooom mind blow

So I went over and Met David and flipping out both as a fan and reverb nerd- this is a sepearate story in itself …

at the same time Mickey is having a conversation with David and we ( mickey and I ) were texting going wtf they are from Bournemouth ??!!

and now I’m really hoping to help them out / release their music / book them some shows , whatever I can do to spread the notes – the sparsity and beauty are the direct DNA of Mark – its so eeerie

when you think about Mark Hollis classic quote about the space between the music 

“Before you play two notes, learn how to play one note, y’know? And don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.” ~ Mark Hollis

and his last leaving remark to a jornalist from the Wire “I think im done ” it had this eerie relevance to my life- ( working in an office with all the crap that goes with it ) and knowing when i’m done and needing and appreciating the space and beauty of the landscape around us and feeling restless ( Mickey and I constantly dreaming and talking hippy bollox about plateus of sound and being lost in nature and the strange pagan heritage and legends of dorset – see Gerald Gardner /

Sybil Leek /

Harry Paye and having moving experiences in this landscape – this is what Held By Trees is all about and it turns out David is from our beloved Dorset and this music was born out of a moment when the world stopped ( COV19)

In short I have a a bewildering urge to make this band heard by whatever means necessary.. It feels so odd to meet David but good odd …I wish I had dug deeper into them and reached out to learn a bit more about them.but TIme is just time right …Its opening up a world of Music to me that ive never had time to dive into Swans / Bark Pyschosis for example and David has a lot of plans and exciting projects coming up

to get a bit personal ive been Struggling with mental health and depression and Talk Talk have meant so much to me and I feel really and blessed to have met David and learnt about his mission to continue the legacy – I’m struggling to convey this but In short if you like Mark Hollis / Rustin man / Ambient / Pink Floyd or just in short MUSIC . please devour and buy everything Held By Tress have made .. enough of my waffle !

PS I had to run to a job interview and what Lennon said “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans”

but I hope David you read this and we work together. Whatever happens, signed Robin Fan for life and I hope Mickey becomes your dear friend and colaborator too xxxx

Room Radio See Safari show / Luke Una / Levon Vincent / Warm new Job / Warm Comps

Been struggling to find time to put these shows mixes together and for good reason as I have just recently started working for https://warmagency.com/. which is a dream come true as they represent some of my fave DJS inc Luke Una – his compilation E Soul Cultura is a must you can get it here through Warms record shop for the fair price & have included some tracks from the comp on this here mix head over to warm and cop some of their amazing compilations including the
Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume One comp

and now just recently Levon Vincvent has signed to Warm Levon Vincent (dubby / muddy pure jacking material trax – here’s a wee blurb about his new Album

Levon Vincent returns with his fifth studio album, titled Work In Progress, the follow up to 2022’s Silent Cities cassette release. Progress sees the dub techno and NY house auteur throw away any overarching concept, apart from the idea that it must move you.

Work In Progress is a collection of club ready jams that form the latest productions from Levon’s incredibly prolific run of 12”s he’s pressed on his own label Novel Sounds, directly for the next weekend’s sets. His run over the last 20 years of 12” numbers almost 50 releases. Rather than his previous albums presenting a finished story, his fifth presents a diarist’s work in progress, his latest club constructions, many raising the BPM to 140 to reflect the faster pace of his latest DJ sets.

“The previous albums I have made are all meant to be heard from start to finish, where it takes the listener on a voyage” explains Levon. “I modelled the narrative idea after those LPs after greats like Stevie Wonder, who made albums that contained an arc that would unfold from start to finish. You were meant to listen to them from beginning to end.”

“With Work in Progress, I set out to break the pattern of writing albums with an arc. I wanted to make something that more closely reflects my DJing. This is an album for DJs. I thought, ‘why separate my LP and 12” approaches? My only rule for this album was ‘you have to be able to play each track in your own sets’. My DJ sets are varied and go through different styles. I would play every track on this LP at some point in a club night or at a festival. I named it Work In Progress, because I am a work in progress. And I am frequently in a situation where I must improve. So it references self-improvement, the concept and the action of.”

DJs and home listening fans of Levon will find a lot to love in the new collection. From the hi-nrg 80s proto-disco through a gray scale gauze of Regarding Love, with an emotional mood continued through Longing, the skipping NY House drum programming of Strut Beats filtered through a submarine Berliner filter. Even a track which promises such an uncomplicated confection as The Funk is complicated by Levon’s gritty vision, made tougher and more metallic. Sunday Mornings echo’s the most feel good of 90s piano, but with a shifting modal centre, as befits a musician who has taught himself to play with and use nonstandard harmonic intervals. Again, Levon is exploring and composing in real time, pursuing his muse across an industrial grid of his own construction.

Turlin – Ambient / noise label

had the pleasure of meeting label boss Alastair. who runs this very interesting label

@viimeinen_ on instagram

http://turlin.bandcamp.com -.. Viimeinen and Lavender Blood  

http://soundcloud.com/viimeiset – Viimeinen Soundcloud. https://viimeinen.bigcartel.com/ – Viimeinen tapes for sale. 

see safari free music

making a few beds / trying out some different sounds in Ableton free or name your price, keen to hear any feedback or just send a message and if you have some music you want to share here happy to share it x

Desert Shore Bournemouth DIY Shows

The second installment of DS brings The Marbles and More to the Poole Hill Brewery on the 30th of March

Free entry 

Live :

The Marbles 
– High Energy Folk rock from these local young guns 

Sophie Avison 
– multi instrumentalist and constant musical collaborator, capable and innovative in Pretty much everything folk, polka, jazz and surprises 

EeeSquire 
-Deconstructive guitar assault 

Viimeinen 
-Tape loops and well crafted noise, a fluid formation of sharp sound within a rich sonic landscape 

Screening :

Karen Nikgol’s Total Recall 2

Desert Shore DJs Sea safari and little Mishap

Cultural Enrichment for schools : Is Everybody In The Place ? Free Party Folk History and the roots of Rave from Traveller scene

I’m over the moon! I finally get to talk about rave culture / raving and the social impact it has had on our society. I’m going to be running a short course on djing and rave culture for my own school where I attended and collected many tapes and flyers ( personal Thanks sam blay , Matt Carter, James Hutchins , Theo ,Richy Blitz , Jords, Gareth w, The Hall twins , Lucy , Al Harrison , Morgan egg lord and countless other ravers who all shaped my young raver mind ) and i’ll be able to invite some heroes ( warm agency – Mickey , Andy who was at Castlemorton ) , Jenny Twenty ( death by stereo / mixology ) to talk about what they have experienced… i’m literally agogo and assembling many pieces of essential info to present a brief history of the greatest cultural movement we have still going…

I know its anti outlaw to work with da man ( insert jez from peepshow voice ) but we need the next generation to keep the acid house supported and spreading the spirit, fuck trap, fuck mumble rap I know I sound like rave grandad when I say that but nothing pains me more to hear that sound coming out of a boom box on the beach , where are the pounding beats my lord !! ….but they need less Xanax and more XTC ….and TLC waterfalls is OK 😉 btw anyway sorry this is a rambling blog ill get my verbal diaherea out the way now and try and be more cohesive…

Writing for schools is difficult …. what to leave in what to leave out !! My heads wrecked !

here’s the rough text for the presentation of Jeremy Deller’s totemic film Everybody in the place and other important docs I’ll be showing to the students.

Everybody in the place – Jeremy Deller – an incomplete history of Britain 1984 -1992 – Free Party Folk History & Tales of a Traveller docs

Course Notes 

Jeremy Deller is a Turner Prize winning  multi media artist that focuses on history and postmodern culture to look at the way Britain has evolved through music and youth culture. He traces the links and social historical background of cultural events and movements, he’s not so much an artist more of a historian that makes visually interesting work. 

His film Everybody In The Place very accurately tells the story of how Rave culture made a huge impact to our society, we the British took and re made a sound and culture from many different elements  the throbbing hypnotic music of gay chicago clubs like Ron Hardy’s music box where EBM, Belgium New beat and other types of early electronic music and disco music were fused leading to inspired remakes and a completely new type of music was born using the newly available roland music devices such as the 303 drum machine and 808 and 909 drum machines , the beginnings of the Detroit techno sound was growing at the same time in the early 80s and the industrial sound that sprung from the deindulstialized zone of the former motor city was fused with the trance elements of Belgium New Beat and the roots of New York Disco from Clubs like Larry Levan’s Garage (we’ll be looking at these scenes through the course to see the parallels and similarities and learn about them and these societies and what created their specific cultures )  

Today there are a multitude of different sounds and scenes that grew from the rave scene in the late 80s and early 90s. outsider Societies mirrored societies and took elements and remade and created incredible mutations of sound and vision, from the collapse of the Berlin Wall leading to the amazing German rave scene we see that Rave and Techno powered amazing social shifts in societies globally.

from a UK perspective With the above mentioned music we took elements and added our own love of hip hop and reggae and created Hardcore and this sound exploded in fields and abandoned warehouses and clubs across the country.

Industrial spaces that had been abandoned since the de industrialisation of the UK  in the Thatcher reigning years 1979- 90. Where a steady decline in production as the UK moved to being a service and finance based economy leaving many parts of the UK in ruin and without recompense for the loss of jobs and effects it had on communities…however

We ( the generation that embraced rave culture )   re purposed spaces and sounds from the past that led to the creation of a wholly new sub culture that led to Moral panic and questions being asked in the house of commons about the future of our nations youth, this panic basically amounted to fear of a society out of control and living with its own codes and outside normal Conservative values. Where the travellers and hippies were shunned from the spaces they had seen and quite rightly used as common land they formed alliances and assimilated into ravers who organised free parties all over the country , a great website with accounts of these can be found here , free party people.org culminating in the event that undoubtedly changed society – Castlemorton which led to the Criminal Justice Bill – no gatherings allowed with repetitive beats and police having powers to break up parties and take away sound systems.Painted as folk demons the travellers had been moved away from stone henge and other sites as the police cracked down on the New Age traveller movement that had developed since the late 60s.

It is important that people see that there are alternative ways to live outside of society and especially now that the cost of living has become untenable , looking back over history like this there were moments when it seemed possible to live without intervention from the state, alternative worlds and ways to be are still possible and we can take inspiration from the peak era of raves and free parties, it is also a huge industry ( think of what is termed EDM and techno blandness with Instagram djs and paid for followers and ghost producers …. ) with all the downsides to what we have today but there are also many pluses and links to the travellers and ravers groups like Extinction Rebellion whatever your view on direct action and groups like this have links to these scenes and are necessary for the protection of our planet

Hippy ramblings ? Make of it what you will, films like Aaron Trinder’s doc show us and give voice to many who were intrinsic in this radical movement that arguably means more than Punk ever did and has had many more positive effects on society – DIY culture, autonomous societies and independence is something that needs encouraging, applauding, examining and talking about now more than ever as a the world gets crazier and more unbalanced.

a really touching and essential book that has inspired myself and friends to go back to free parties and make our own was the gift of Dreaming In Yellow by Harry Harrison l by Velocity Press , my true love gave me this Bookman its the greatest present ever to get a book about something I really enjoy and feel passionate about …….DIY is the sound system I respect the most as they simply had the best music, digs and whoosh almost played in alum chine in bournemouth but the party was shut down within twenty minutes … boohoo I was too young to get to their parties so reading about them is a joy , thanks LUCY xx

another great eye witness account of the roots of the rave scene and parallel lives with links to the free festival and traveller circuit can be seen here in this film about Rodger a traveller who ended up djing at Spectrum at Heaven …

Sumatran Black video interview texts on Artists and music

Sumatran Black

Peter Reeves AKA Sumatran Black,
Black Box Memories, Camomile Dawn

& Ataşehir
https://sumatranblack.bandcamp.com
Melancholy jaded sounds with deeply personal names to the songs, Pete has created a sonic universe
with themes of urban alienation, deep space isolation, waking states
modern relationships, ennui and intriguing melodies that draw you in and leave you in a calm state of idleness
and
somewhere between
the dream and waking state,
perfect music for our times

Mr Kyps is a music venue in Poole that our mutual friend Romin was a booker for,
Pete and I were mutual friends and have bonded a lot over Pet Shop Boys
I hope to also one day see them and Depeche Mode in Istanbul or in Eastern Europe,
where synth music is APPRECIATED

RUSSEL T DAVIES Its a Sin,
tells the story of a group of friends living in
London and the impact of AIDS,

VENUES ? NIGHTLIFE

There are various groups pushing
for more aid for the night time economy and aid
for venues

probably the most direct need is to save smaller venues
you can donate here

http://musicvenuetrust.com/
And for individual musicians of course head to bandcamp

Just this month ( march 2021) The Government has now announced £1.57bn
in additional support to help cultural and heritage organisations,
through a mixture of emergency grants and loans.
Under what method of application and criteria and how to apply for
This funding of course is another matter …

The latest Album is
A Taxonomy of Grief,
A Taxonomy of Grief” is the final album of the Sumatran Black Necrotrilogy,
and the follow up to the acclaimed EP
“Elegy for a Lost Cosmonaut”.
The album sees Sumatran Black go deep into
his past and examine the devastating
emotional fallout following the loss of a loved one 20 years ago

Potential soundtracks / rescoring films…

Previous projects include Soundtrack to A Page of Madness, directed by
Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Commissioned as part of SALT
Galata’s Sounds of Cinema performance season. April, 2018.

https://sumatranblack.bandcamp.com/album/a-page-of-madness-a-sumatran-soundtrack

A Page of Madness (Japanese: 狂った一頁, Hepburn: Kurutta Ippēji or Kurutta Ichipeiji)

is a 1926 Japanese silent film directed
by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Lost for forty-five years until being
rediscovered by its director in his
storehouse in 1971the film is the product of an avant-garde
group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha (or School of New Perceptions)
who tried to overcome naturalistic representation.

Herzog and Kinskis relationship is documented in
Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski
Kinski left one of his Jesus tours to star in
Herzog’s film Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).
This was the first of five films that the
two would make together, the others being
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978); Woyzeck (1978); Fitzcarraldo (1982);
and Cobra Verde (1987)

The elder daughter of the late German film star Klaus Kinski, Pola,
has accused her father of sexually abusing her between the ages
of five and 19. She told a German magazine
she had broken her silence because of the continuing adulation
Kinski enjoyed, more than 20 years after his death

Family Romance concerns itself with the truth
and falsities of human nature. Over one and a half hours, we follow Ichii across
various jobs and tourist destinations,
with each situation weirder than the one that
came before it.

The main storyline begins with a divorced
woman hiring Ichii to impersonate her
ex-husband and befriend her troubled 12-year-old daughter
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-rented-and-the-real-werner-herzog-s-family-romance-llc



Fordlândia is a district and adjacent area of 14,268
square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city of Aveiro,
in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is located on the east banks of the
Tapajós river roughly 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of the city of Santarém.
It was established by American industrialist Henry Ford in the Amazon Rainforest
in 1928 as a prefabricated industrial town intended
to be inhabited by 10,000 people to secure a
source of cultivated rubber for the automobile
manufacturing operations of the Ford Motor Company in the United States.

Nil By Mouth
Gary Oldman’s film partly about his childhood in
South London. This film is a modern classic
The scene we talk about is played by Steve Sweeney
mimicking Dennis Hopper in “Apocalypse Now,”

the sountrack some by Eric Clapton with key tracks with vocals by Frances Ashman is fire

Camomile dawn and See Safari
The Ghosts of Seoul and London
https://camomiledawn.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghosts-of-seoul-london

DJ Python Mas Amable
https://djpythonnyc.bandcamp.com/album/mas-amable

JUNG AN TAGEN – Stefan Juster of Vienna,

for it is he of Not Not Fun and since 2016 on cult viennese experimental label
Editions Mego

Complete musical and artist polymath genius and
through being introduced by Sami Nagasaki
a promoter from Vienna ,
Stefan put some great suggestions of tape labels including
Baba Vanga a great label from Prague,
https://babavanga.bandcamp.com/
got introduced to some great music through Samis events, great artist too,
Please research these https://babavanga.bandcamp.com/album/unreal
https://shapeplatform.eu/2018/jung-an-tagen-my-main-approach-is-still-psychedelic/

Cult label https://vill4in.bandcamp.com/album/–5

cult member /ethernet
https://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/ethernet

dizzcock
https://babavanga.bandcamp.com/album/unreal

A collaboration between Vaporwave producers Hong Kong Express and t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者, ２８１４ is a project that creates cyberpunk-esque, dystopian yet psychedelic and relaxing ambient soundscapes.

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/–18

Eccojams by Daniel Lopatin invented the vapour wave genre back in 2010 fast forward ten years he’s making soundtracks most notably the completely insane Uncut Gems

https://ae2.online/blogs/news-blogs/eccogems

Kerrie J Robinson Interview

Kerrie J Robinson is a multi-instrumentalist based in the remote west Highlands of Scotland. Originally from Dorset, she cut her musical teeth working in record shops and playing in bands, including Red Peal, Betika, and Sancho. Her current solo work fuses field recordings with improvisation, sound design and electronics. https://kerriejrobinson.bandcamp.com/releases

Fact check: there are actually around 30,000 lochs in Scotland. Slightly less than the 100,000
in this video we talk about new music from

Lost Map: https://www.lostmap.com/

Ed Dowie’s latest single:

https://soundcloud.com/kerrierobinson
includes the Red Peal ep and some Sound Design/Noise stuff on there too. kerrie mentioned Jane Rushton, who she’s currently collaborating with. She can be found on the insta handle @jane_rushton_artist
the Thalassing LP is out on Clay Pipe records.. pre sale is out but http://www.claypipemusic.co.uk/ links to other shops here
I talk a bit about clubs and the two Chrises… Peddley and Mears Bournemouth music and club scene, Weatherall And Sean Johnston and THE ALFOS EBS Ko-fi.com/alfosebs
https://www.twitch.tv/alfos2020reconnecting with People and Lock Tavern and Camden memories and the need to put on gigs and club nights and save smaller venues https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-our-venues-red-list

main topics

Lost Map, the label is home to The Pictish Trail ( jonny ) as mentioned
Rozi Plain and Ed Dowie (he’s from Bournemouth!) ALEXIA AVINA
and Clementine March both of whom are highly recommended
based on the magick isle of Eigg.
The new Visitations series of records include Arthur King
(inc Jason Lytle of Grandaddy) Rozi Plain and more…

Ed Dowie

was part of Brothers in Sound who were label mates on Regal with the Beta band
Ed makes strange wonderful music and has a distinctive voice and artisitic vision
be sure to dig into his work and look for the novel use of a mechanised tea straner
in the video to his current single
https://eddowie.bandcamp.com/music

End Of The Road Festival
Was Held in the Larmer Tree gardens in Dorset
and will be back for the 2nd to 5th september 2021
The Pixies will headline with King Krule and Little Simz and many more

On seeing PJ Harvey at Camp Bestival
PJ being from Bridport Dorset and Bridport has recently seen
a mini explosion in the arts scene there

Red Acoustic lady land, Kerrie’s band Red Peel supported the group at Mr Kyps

members went on to form
Melt Yourself down and
The Invisible ( who played one of my nights ! )
They were also part of the FIRE art collective
who also included http://ingridlaubrock.com/

Sumatran Black – Aka Pete Reeves and the Bromide Connection ( Romin )
Pete is really the musical brain behind Haram Tapes
I met Pete through Romin
(mutual friend and booker of Mr kips
now working for SoundCrash Ninja Tune and his own Video company and events
Freak London)
and years later through soundcloud I got to know him
again as Sumatran Black as a mysterious producer based in Istanbul
little did i know at the time we had known each other in a past life

thanks to the Malgo riddim of soundcloud we were reunited !

Baders voice and story is featured in Haram Tapes and
his story continues to influence me and I hope we will be able to be in the same place again and continue our work and friendship along with Peter and Mo
The creation of the album began in 2017 as a document of
people living in Europe and Istanbul who had escaped
their home country or in the case of Mohamed Shawky
had moved to Vienna to study and become
a lawyer to help people in need.
Mo, friend of Haram Tapes and
creator of the haram text and poem on our first album
Both Bader and Mo were
living in difficult circumstances and
trying to find their way in a new society…

You can find snub tv on Youtube ,with classic interviews
With the Jesus And Marychain, Spacemen 3, 808 state, a Guy called gerald ,
he Fall, Pixies , Dinosaur Jnr
and the tv debut of Manic Street Preachers,My Bloody Valentine, The JAMMS (later KLF)
and Björk (in her first TV appearance, with the Sugarcubes).In an interview Mark E smith
Professes his love for Hip Hop “rap music is the most literate music I’ve heard in years.
They’re saying a lot more than Dire Straits ever did”
Snub TV was created by Pete “Pinko” Fowler and Brenda Kelly,
who met working at Rough Trade records
it ran for three seasons from 1989 until its demise in 1991.
read more in guardian article snub-tv-cult-80s-music-show-unearthed-underground
and a blog post with a comp of the best clips here from
https://calling-the-shots.com/2020/06/09/way-back-when-snub-tv/

Anticon featured likes of Buck 65
Sage Francis and Why? & many more

Bournemouths club scene
Was very healthy from mid 80s up to the mid 2000s
With a wide range of promoters including Destiny for Hardcore and Drum and Bass,
Cocoshebeen at the Opera House and in its
early days it saw sets from Laurent Garnier,
Carl Cox , Deepdish, mid week specials like AWOL with Kenny Ken Mickey Finn and
Nicky Blackmarket packing out the club.
Also of note was The Manor and Madisons who had regular appearances from Sasha and Digweed,
LTJ Bukem , CJ Bolland, Billy Nasty, Colin Dale
and many others… for a slice of peak hardcore mania
google fantazia Matchams Bournemouth

Snowboy as well as being an amazing DJ
is a specialist in percussion and recently worked with
co-founder of Talk Talk, Paul Webb on the new Rustin Man lp
https://www.dominomusic.com/releases/rustin-man/clockdust/exclusive-limited-lp

Peddler and Mears and Avid Records and Mat Humphrey
Chris Mears night was actually called Mobility
Chris Peddley brought ,amongst others
DJ Spooky, Daddy G and Patrick Forge and gave me my first paid gig ( cheers ears )
and it gave me inspiration for putting on nights
with long term friend and Campari Safari creator Mat Humphrey
probably most of my records were purchased from the excellent Avid Records where
Mearsey worked and
where DJ Snowboy would pop in. Paul the owner of Avid was lovely and if youre out there
get in touch!
Peddley’s night at the Consortium was really open in its music policy and thanks to Nat the owners
progressive attitude meant
there were always interesting and exciting DJs brought down to little old Bournemouth.

I mention here Sixty Million Postcards for
putting on Horse Meat Disco and a young Daniel Avery
amongst many others, with it being booked by a group who also organised adventures in the beetroot field / Field day with eat Your Own Ears and many events all over the uk… main booker and spearhead Casper C / Volte face / Bleed and Bloggers delight) along with Filthy Dukes/ ASBO/ Nadia Ksabia and Rory Phillips along with a host of great DJS and Promoters arguably brought the best nights across the country and gave Bournemouth a kick up the arse
Thanks to casper and the Lock Tavern and Those early nights at the Drop and Defectors weld I got to put on some really great nights and I want to say thanks and praise be for Casper as a great person and incredible DJ and Producer. Go investigate Volte Face NOW !
The Lock tavern spawned the Disco Pub /small disco see also Horse and Groom
and Old Blue Last and the Gun as shining examples of Disco pubs.

Bournemouth hardcore connection
Remix was along with Madisons a great club for
hardcore,techno and drum and bass
The Gander also on holdenhurst road along with Mr Smiths in the Triangle
also important gig venues.
Remix is now The Bunker and at the Firestation
there are occasionally good nights along with The Four Horsemen putting on small club nights.

Edited libellous rumour about a local night club person
Who rumour had it was a hamster snaffler

Kerrie is talking about the artist Jane Rushton, they’re currently collaborating
. She can be found on the insta handle @jane_rushton_artist and
https://www.resipolestudios.co.uk/jane-rushton

Pay To Play Scandals !
Common practice amongst SOME venues
Was to demand bands bring a certain number
of people and if they didn’t make the numbers they wouldn’t see a red cent !

But right now whats more pressing is the lack of for help venues and musicians and
technicians are getting in this crisis and the total abandonement of
the creative industries, write to your MP and support venues, it shouldnt have to be fans
who bail out but if you can spare a bit of money please buy music from band camp and
pay for any online events, The Deaf Institue and Gorrilla in manchester were saved thanks
Tim Burgess and SSD and partly thanks to Labour Mp Andy Burnham for raising the issue.

but many more venues are in the Red and didnt make the grade for arts council funding which has been made available at the last minute

please go to
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-our-venues-red-list donate what you can

ALFOS Sean Johnston
Sean has continued A Love From Outer Space his legendary and life affirming club
Which he and Andrew Weatherall started at The Drop in stok Neewington
ALFOS broacdcasts Can be found on twitch
And https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALFOS
support the space cadet family
be sure to check out his work as Hard Way Bros and tune into
the Emergency Broadcasts to beat any blues

Ed Dowie – mechanised tea straining synth pop

after talking to Kerrie Robinson she mentioned Ed Dowie and have a new favourite synth pop melody stuck in my brain, what is also a treat is the video to accompany it, an Edwardian Ruff, a Tea strainer repurposed as a tracking guide, symbolic numbers and items left in a field, I have a lot of questions but I’m happy to let the blissful icy tones and Ed’s celestial voice transport me to that field. Eds been making music since the 90s and makes sound scapes, ambient, sound tracks , field recordings and all manner of sound works have a delve into his sound bath

Due to release his 2nd album, The Obvious I on 26th February 2021 on Pete Paphides’ label, Needle Mythology. Ed’s first album came out in 2017 on Lost Map Records. Lost Map features heavily in the upcoming interview I did with Kerrie on her music and influences and music from mates in Scotland, sounds like the highlands and the isles are the place to be if you want splendid isolation

Homepage – album launch

SUSANNA MAJURI RIP FINNISH PHOTOGRAPHER

SHE DIED IN MARCH 2020

I REMEMBER HER IMAGE FROM

THIS

WILLIAM Basinski WATERMUSIC 2

HERE WORK LIVES ON FOREVER

UNDERWATER AND FOREVER FLOWING TRULY ETHERAL AND MAJESTIC