mythology
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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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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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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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Deirdre of the sorrows.
So it came to pass as the prophecy told, cast in the seeds of Cathbad’s toil, that three heroes would be shamed and exiled, the land and it’s people sundered and riven as warriors fought for the hand of our Deirdre of the sorrows. Of those three warriors, known as Ken, Mike and Samir, only Continue reading
the moss garden 