“As I set foot upon the spongy land of the marshes, tall reeds at my side mixed with the spindly uprights of the jetty, a hand reaches to me, to aid my step from the long, low barge. It has brought me and my brothers, hooded others from Atlantis, on the final stage of
Back in 2011 I wrote about a forthcoming exhibition of Vodou art at the Nottingham Contemporary in the UK. That was before I had visited the Lehmann Collection and conversed with the spirits of the tradition, in the flesh so to speak. That exhibition, Vodou ; Kunst Und Kult Aus Haiti, and this new one
My muse is never elusive, but she definitely has her moods! There’s really no point trying to undertake a project if she’s not onboard. For example right now I have several music projects in the pipeline. But they won’t happen just yet because the muse has decided, for the time being, that photography is where
Robert Rankin (on the right) at the largest Steampunk festival in Europe. I managed to get to the front of the book signing queue and became the proud owner of signed poster 1/250 above. He also personally inscribed a copy of his latest novel, Mechanical Messiah (above). I’ve been a fan of his ‘far fetched
Kenneth Grant, with his wife Steffi, created books that were more than mere pages and pictures. They were magickal totems, memes that lay waiting to be discovered and offered the keys to a worldview based upon the philosophies of Thelema and riddled with adventures from the Darkside. Its perhaps fitting then that I should discover
Sleazy was a distant yet manifest influence on my own work. It started with the ownership of a rare book – it turned out to be from the Threshold House library and amongst the works auctioned after Jhonn Balance’s death. It led me down a path both different and familiar and to a greater understanding
I first heard Dio with Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow on songs like “Catch The Rainbow” and later on one of my all-time favourite albums, Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell. Since then I’ve seen him many times live with Dio and Heaven & Hell and to learn today that he’s gone is almost like having a piece
Maschine – is it stand-alone, is it more than an expensive toy?
I discovered Psychic TV in a round-about manner. After obtaining one of the books from Jhonn Balance’s personal collection at Threshold House I became interested in all things Coil. Their final album, The Ape of Naples became a staple diet of my in-car entertainment for many months and this led to Peter (Sleazy) Christopherson and
The book launch of Glyn Hughes’s poetry collection takes place on 8th December 2007 at the ArtsMill, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire UK. Glyn Hughes’s poetry has been a Poetry Book Society recommendation, and a recipient of the Welsh Arts Council Poet’s Prize. His novels have been awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, the David Higham Prize and
