Another day at Another Place: looking to the horizon in silent expectation

Originally posted on That's How The Light Gets In:
Friday was a glorious day here in the north-west. The November sun shone in a cloudless sky of brilliant blue.  An old friend was visiting, back in Liverpool for the first time in years.  She had never seen Anthony Gormley’s Another Place on Crosby beach…

The call of the river

Originally posted on That's How The Light Gets In:
Canada geese in flight. Photo by Philippe Henry The day began, walking with the dog in the park, with a skein of geese flying overhead, a honking arrowhead of birds heading straight for the river. I don’t think there is any another sound that so…

UK indie pop news !! ‘Drifter’ video from Tom George

This track has been available at http://www.tomgeorge.bandcamp.com for a while and people have compared it to acts as diverse as Blind Lemon and Squeeze…I’ve just finished the video to it, shot around Liverpool with help from my photographer mate Brian Ardrey. It also features cameo appearances from some of the Liverpool bohemians – many ofContinue reading “UK indie pop news !! ‘Drifter’ video from Tom George”

September Fly

There’s a solitary housefly living in the downstairs toilet. September fly was concieved on a dog turd down the street, hatched out on a rotting pastie by next door’s bins and found it’s way through our spare bedroom window last weekend. Since then, it has patrolled our rooms and corridors on a non-stop reconnaissance missionContinue reading “September Fly”

Dreamcatching next week at Domino Gallery…

Dreamcatcher is a video project I began last summer with a lil’ Flip camera. Interviewing friends and complete strangers, I simply wanted to share some stories from that mysterious world we all inhabit on the flip-side of consciousness. It was easier speaking to friends than complete strangers, although approaching people I didn’t know often producedContinue reading “Dreamcatching next week at Domino Gallery…”

I SPRAYED THE COVERS…

…of my book individually with aerosol paint – here’s an example. The book features the hit poems ‘Checkout Girl’, and ‘UV Angel’ as well as several previously unpublished or performed poetry and prose pieces. You can now find it in Liverpool’s radical bookshop News From Nowhere, on Bold St. Just hand over four fresh squidsContinue reading “I SPRAYED THE COVERS…”