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Beautiful Things
Most of my old paintings used as record sleeves have been in storage since 2002, they’re free now and I think they need to get out and about. This painting was used for the sleeve art for Haven’s 2nd release, Beautiful Thing.July 2021. Tar paint and emulsion on paper, started 1998, it’s still breathing and Continue reading
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Vegetable-ism.
Originally written in 2024 in response to the Farage Riots, it contains perennial truths. Did we grow right here? Did we sprout out of the very ground we inhabit? Are we vegetables? Or, did we arrive here by an historic process? My Dad once said that: ‘Manchester is a city of fleeing immigrants.’ Joe Moss. Continue reading
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Worrier on the Edge of Town.
It was cold on the edge of 1984. Dread swamped around frayed hems, an ominous puddle stagnating as the year loomed closer, then subsiding as the new year broke and that dumfungled vision of a jackboot future forever stalled, mired at the sluice gates neath the ruined towers on the edge of town. The young Continue reading
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Gods and Aliens and Assassins of Youth.
In late 2019 the late, great, dearly missed Professor John Hyatt and I were talking about making some music with the soulful feel of the late 60s, early 70s proto punk bands, with socially aware protest lyrics, particularly aimed at the looming disasters of Brexit and the climate crisis. The influences were the MC5, The Continue reading
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Revisiting this-island, a sour time regained.
Can we sidestep dangerous billionaires? Continue reading
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The Holy Mountain
For Beaker. I’ve got this friend called Kath who I’ve known since September 1984. Ours was a momentous meeting in a year of spectacular happenings. We met at Stockport College where we were both scratching around trying to get some post O Level qualifications, whilst also launching into some happy, socially hedonistic adventures that would Continue reading
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Come on Ken!
In June 1984, on the eve of the Summer Solstice, Hawkwind played a legendary set at Stonehenge free festival. Druids were gathered at the stones awaiting the sunrise. Among their number there was rumoured to be one William Roache, Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow. Hawkwind’s saxaphone player, Nik Turner, who was a singer and frontman in Continue reading
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