The Fairy Temple (of trees) full of lambs

Good morning No15.

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Monochrome of 2 lambs on s track over a small bridge

Ida has stolen the squeaky ball.

Crick Iron Age Village: One of the largest Iron Age settlements ever excavated in Britain. Reconstruction image by Mark Gridley. 178 hectares were excavated, up to 100 roundhouses at peak occupation and five separate housing clusters built across a valley.

Yesterday a new release landed on my label Frosti from Scottish musician The Lost Past Society : frostilabel.bandcamp.com/album/transm...
It's a stunning album in the form of a fictional radio station style mixtape (lots more about the concept in the Bandcamp description!)...

Two lambs in a green field

Gang of wrens.

Lots of rain on a window pixilating the trees and shrubs in the garden

Has been raining. Hard.

Cat very soggy. Other cat still out.

“You had a column where you could put personal ads. And so, John and George and I used to just put them in. Just so we could see our words in print, you know?” Paul McCartney gets experimental again. ... Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

2. Wanna see the unabridged version of the interview I did with Paul McCartney just after the release of Electric Arguments in 2008? His quote about Carnival of Light still makes me laugh.

The walk from the Station was great. Him pointing out mad stuff with his walking stick, stopping to talk to street drinkers, then we did the interview in a studio run by the guy out of the Enid which was one of the only places left where he could chain smoke weed indoors.

Pussy has eaten a rabbit.

In 2010 I went to Northampton with gentleman Dave Ma to meet Alan Moore, for a cover feature for Stool Pigeon and a big feature for theQuietus [ln1k in thared].

Dave just sent me these photos which I wanted to share because... well, you would, wouldn't you?

Moore was a fantastic host... 1/?

A woman with bouffant hair wearing a black and white striped dress sits at a Control Data Corporation computer terminal using a graphics pen in 1970.

Happy Monday 🌐
youtu.be/mWheWmDbd6s?...

This is very sad to hear.

Curry nights at his Morton Pinkney cottage were magical.

Close up of an old knotted rope slowly turning green wrapped around a wire fence with green field and trees behind

The Kite has a mouse.

A colour illustration of the front cover of Ideal Home magazine with New Ways

The latest edition of our Anatomy of a House blog goes back to the start and the first modernist house in Britain, New Ways in Northampton. It was designed by Peter Behrens for W.J. Bassett-Lowke, 100 years ago. Read more about the house here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/anatomy...

A blacks and white photo of the garden facade of New Ways

The garden facade of New Ways, Northampton (1926) by Peter Behrens. This side of the house would prove more influential than its front, with a number of houses borrowing its design for their facades www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/anatomy...

#AshaBhosle died after being admitted to the hospital a day earlier due to ‘extreme exhaustion’ and a ‘chest infection’.

Read more: scroll.in/latest/10920...

Asha Bhosle: The sound of Bollywood dies aged 92 Her infectious voice got fans dancing and singing, becoming the soundtrack for generations of Indians.

Very sad news.

Fortunate to have seen her perform with the Kronos Quartet at the Barbican.

Asha Bhosle: The sound of Bollywood dies aged 92 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ewe on right with her lamb on left against a green grass field

Burning the toast?

Ah, but maybe time for a new origin story?

I wonder if this is where @scannerdot.com took inspiration for his name from?

Energy In Northampton - Linda Jardim YouTube video by EvenThisNameTaken

Just remembered “Energy In Northampton”, a song commissioned by the Northampton Development Corporation to promote Northampton, in which aliens visit Northampton

Silently they came one night / attracted by the glowing light / their scanners led them to the town Northampton

youtu.be/4xKjGqefH7U

Monochrome of the sun behind clouds with tree at bottom.

Shiny green bird.

A green grass field with trees. A sheep is looking at me whilst her lamb runs off.

Stalked by a tractor.

JUST IN! 'Click-er' by Various

Compilation highlighting both established and underground acts in the Northampton music scene.

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I’m going to be playing a UK tour in the summer as I’m releasing a new album on the wonderful tak:til / Glitterbeat this year.

I’ll be accompanied by Mark Nicholas at these shows.

Tickets here:
linktr.ee/alison__cotton

Hope to see you at one of these!

I’m going to release more music under the name Two Way Mirrors very soon. I’ve just put this EP I did in 2024 under this project down to £1 for a bit : thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/torn-2

A brown/green field with shadows, mostly of trees but also a figure. Hills and blue sky above

A double Snoopy day!

The juxtaposition of this Boards of Canada story with a local news story below couldn't be more apt, as if a screen grab from this mysterious BOC VHS tape.