Music
My production work, lyric writing and guitars contributed to the 2025 edition of Jupiter Loop's seminal trip-hop album not just being remastered but completely re-imagined with lush textures, driving synths and sultry vocals.
The Photograph (short story from The Cabal)
New Year, new deadlines! Plenty of catching up on the writing schedule! The Photograph For thirty years I’ve carried the image in a magnetically clamped locket. Originally there were two photographs, but the second of the pair had an allure that would not leave me. Her face within that brass oval was not harsh or
Christmas Angels (short story from The Cabal)
The ESTRONOMICON 2007 Christmas Special features my short story “Christmas Angels”. This is a fragment from a new novel regarding the adventures of members of The Cabal, a shadowy group of investigators set in a London of the near-future. The Angels in question are the infamous Enochian entites that visited John Dee in 16th Centrury
Of Orient Are We (Three Kings)
My track Of Orient Are We (Three Kings), produced as Gothick, is available on the Dark Winter Holiday Compilation – A Candle’s Golden Glow It evokes the essence of the Dark Ambient genre as typified by Lustmorde, Bunk Data and others and incorporates reworkings of the traditional We Three Kings motifs with swirling, haunting soundscapes.
Glyn Hughes Poetry Book Launch
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
Jerusalem theme
Following on from last week’s warping of the Blake classic “The Tiger”, I had the opportunity to set the theme this time myself, as Jerusalem. I knew it would be troublesome for people to get to grips with. It’s very easy as a writer to only write about subjects you enjoy yourself or not know
William Blake – Anniversaries, Parodies and Assorted Animals
photo credit: Copleys This week’s exercise was a little more unusual that most. The brief was to take a favourite poem and then rewrite it, replacing nouns with diffferent nouns, verbs with different verbs etc. Everyone seemed to share the consensus that it is a very difficult task which consumes time rapidly. Of course this
Silent Knight – Xmas tune
Inspired by the netlabel Darkwinter, Gothick has spent the last few days working on a track called Silent Knight. It started out as a variation on the well-known Silent Night but insisted on becoming something very different. Tinged with snippets of Ethiopian Christmas chants and a Templar’s snowy footsteps its quickly gaining listeners since its
ICE (short story from Death Codex)
No set subject this week so I return once again to the space opera Death Codex. This is a scene from earlier in the novel. Let me lead you gently into events with a quick flashback to Chapter 2: At the jetty one of the two-seater surface skimmers blasted by, its bow barely missing the
Tonight’s theme is “tango”
photo credit: ianmcburnie The theme for this week is “tango” – quite limited it would seem. Searching for background information on the word I was happy to see that there was a Japanese reference. I was then able to draw upon my experiences of travelling across Japan to write the poem. The critique it received
National Trust (writing workshop)
Since becoming involved with a local writers’ group I’ve noticed my poetic sense re-awaken and the tendency to see things in poetic vision increase. I had forgotten that sensation of concentration that seeks through word and rhythm to take you to another place. Its seems to enhance everyday experience to the point where you’re able