Full time job keeping up with this stuff.
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Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates – Gown
Song of the summer.
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An Interview with Roman Dial
I Recently had the pleasure of interviewing Roman Dial for the Outsiders website.
Not just an accomplished climber, mountaineer and skier, Roman was one of the first to see the value in the packraft in the early 1980s, crossing raging rivers with a basic inflatable dinghy to string together adventures that had never been thought of before.
The same goes for bicycles—and after realising the potential of mountain bikes in the late ‘80s he pedalled off the fire-roads and into the Alaskan wilderness with a few other brave souls to create ‘hellbiking’, the multi-day off-piste slog-fest which blazed a rocky trail for the bikepacking of today.
This is maybe the longest interview I’ve ever done, and maybe also one of the best. Read it here…
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Great Area – Good Coding
I saw great Area a few months’ back at the White Hotel. For maybe 25 minutes they sang their short, straight-up songs over a backing track while handicam footage presumably filmed in some far off eastern metropolis was projected onto a huge sheet. I know that sometimes people greedily crave the ‘full band experience’, but for a project as mysterious and personal as Great Area, this audio/visual set-up was perfect.
ANyway, Good Coding is their new album courtesy of Lolina’s Relaxin’ Records. Drag the files over onto your Creative Zen MP3 player then take a walk around the city for a while.
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Demon Boyz
Demon Boyz – ’88 – Broadwater Farm. Photos by Normski.
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The Whistling in the Dark – Online Now
A Super 8 visual document from World Force Artifacts.
Filmed from 2014 – 2022. Featuring Gaz Hunt, Addy Snowdon, Clarky, Wozzy, Sandy, Jambul, Sam Waller, Marv, Leo McKenna, Tommy Gore, Jim Newrick, Tim Evans, Feebz, Loz Taylor, Fathead, Minney, Tommy C, Shanky, Cookie and Dan Cox.
Thanks to Jack Dalziel, Luke Waller and Tom Hopkin for their audio contributions.
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The Whistling in the Dark
The Whistling in the Dark is available now on DVD via Central Library. This is a 22 minute Super 8 video filmed on and off from around 2014 to 2022.
Suppose it’s probably ‘a riding video’, but it’s also about buildings, cranes, dogs, cats, scrap cars, trains, sheltering from the rain, cheap holidays to Europe, life in northern cities and the occasional escape to the wilderness.
Featuring Gaz Hunt, Addy Snowdon, Clarky, Wozzy, Sandy, Jambul, Sam Waller, Marv, Leo McKenna, Tommy Gore, Jim Newrick, Tim Evans, Feebz, Loz Taylor, Fathead, Minney, Tommy C, Shanky, Cookie and Dan Cox.
Thanks to Jack Dalziel, Luke Waller and Tom Hopkin for their audio contributions.
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The London Perambulator
Vital viewing for anyone who enjoys spending their days wandering down canal paths and gazing at concrete fenceposts.
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Los Thuthanaka – Self Titled
A true unmastered masterpiece courtesy of Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. The audio equivalent of licking a battery.
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The Whistling in the Dark
Showing my Super 8 film The Whistling in the Dark as the warm-up act for Clarky’s latest Strangeways masterpiece in a few weeks. Roughly a decade of lurking around on bicycles, compressed into just over 20 minutes, shot on a camera from the early 80s. I’ll be glad to have this thing finally off my computer.
Saturday 15th March, Cultplex cinema, Manchester – From 7pm.
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(SPN) – Segni Particolari Nessuno
Not sure if it still exists, but there used to be something in Manchester called ‘Flu Camp’ where you could sign up for being given the flu and then monitored for a couple of weeks in a closed-off ‘Big Brother House’ style environment. From memory I think they’d give you two grand for this ordeal.
Anyway, this new tape from Italy’s (SPN) gives a similar woozy heavy-headed sensation. There’s no big cash payout at the end, but it’s an enjoyable grogged-out ride. Stock up on Lemsip and embrace the zonk.
Roman Candle Magazine 