Writing The Self With Gareth E. Rees — Hastings Writers Workshop A workshop exploring how to write ourselves into fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid forms.

I'm sharing my 14 years of inexpertise, including the perils of oversharing in print, at a writers workshop in Hastings on 9th May - tickets here: share.google/uKi6gKIbgoFI...

It's OK - we should be fine - don't panic - it's probably heading to France.

Outfall pipe on shingle beach with bars bent as if a prisoner has escaped

It has escaped.

Gnod plus Black Arches, the Piper St Leonards Sunday 17th May 6.30pm

Rare gig news - we are supporting Gnod at The Piper, St Leonards May 16th - tickets here: share.google/TbuBHYJKG2O4...

Cheers!

Done!
Yep, those were the people I thought of!
For those unfamiliar, this group mixes spoken word poetry with heavy psychedelic music. The effect can be a bit unsettling or hilarious, depending on the topics.
I very much recommend to try out at least the track "Bin Day"!

Highly, highly recommended!

Live at the Strongroom, by Black Arches 6 track album

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If this is the same Black Arches I'm thinking of, this is going to be a somewhat weird start to the week, but I'll take it!

I also see @nicbrown.bsky.social in the supporters again... I swear I'm not stalking you, Nic! 😆

Going in!

blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Cheers Joe!

Live at the Strongroom, by Black Arches 6 track album

Released today via our bandcamp page... Black Arches with Sexton Ming 'Live at the Strongroom' blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Terminal Zones by Gareth E. Rees - Trending Books I loved the stories “A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes” and “Thenar Space” because the exploration of unconventional characters (The former is about a man

Terminal Zones by Gareth E. Rees

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I loved the stories “A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes” and “Thenar Space” because the exploration of unconventional characters (The former is about a man falling in love with a disused electricity pylon, and the latter is about a …

oxland cylinder, by Kemper Norton 10 track album

As our latest opus nears completion, why not fill the time by downloading the previous KN albums from our
" Cornish Industrial " range ?
Brunton Calciner, Oxland Cylinder and Lowermoor are all available from a pound on our site for today only x

kempernorton.bandcamp.com/album/oxland...

[News] Black Arches With Sexton Ming unveil the live video for "The Sailor's Daughter" from their album "Folly" Hastings, UK based Experimental Psychedelic/Noise Rock band Black Arches With Sexton Ming have unveiled the live video for “The Sailor’s Daughter” from their latest album, “Folly,” released on March 1...

[News] Black Arches With Sexton Ming unveil the live video for "The Sailor's Daughter" from their album "Folly"
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#PRJ #BlackArches #SextonMing #LiveVideo #NewRelease #RocketRecordings #SextonMing #Experimental #PsychRock #MusicNews

Thanks Alan!

Finished THE STONE TIDE by @garetherees.bsky.social last night, read in three sittings over five days. An incredible piece of work that makes you crawl inside yourself and examine your flaws and mistakes just as the narrator does. With added Hastings psychogeography and pain and grief.

Cheers!

The Stone Tide, Adventures at the End of the World, Gareth E. Rees. The problems started the day we moved to Hastings...' When Gareth E. Rees moves to a dilapidated Victorian house in Hastings he begins to piece together an occult puzzle connecting Aleister Crowley, John Logie Baird and the Piltdown Man hoaxer. As freak storms and tidal surges ravage the coast, Rees is beset by memories of his best friend's tragic death in St Andrews twenty years earlier. Convinced that apocalypse approaches and his past is out to get him, Rees embarks on a journey away from his family, deep into history and to the very edge of the imagination. Tormented by possessed seagulls, mutant eels and unresolved guilt, how much of reality can he trust? THE STONE TIDE is a novel about grief, loss, history and the imagination. It is about how people make the place and the place makes the person. Above all it is about the stories we tell to make sense of the world.

2020 #82
The final book finished in 2020 was this eclectic novel full of psychogeography and strange goings on in Hastings from @garetherees.bsky.social and @influxpress.bsky.social . There's some blurb in the alt text as usual and this remains one of my personal favourite.
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Wrexham: 'Creepy' sculptures appear near former Brymbo Steelworks The statues prompted a flurry of speculation among locals before their origin was revealed.

This was one of the locations I explored in 'Unofficial Britain': the site of the former steelworks where my grandfather and uncle worked in the '70s. share.google/vpOu9fvu4J03...

Driftwood dragon 16 Jan — 15 Mar 2026 at the Paul Smith Gallery in London, United Kingdom

Hackney-based artist, Nick Jensen has made a series of paintings inspired by my book 'Marshland' for his exhibition at the Paul Smith Gallery, which includes a new short fiction I penned for the occasion www.meer.com/en/102905-dr... cc @influxpress.bsky.social

the sheer weirdness of Victorian classifieds

Afrosound - El Regreso de E.T. el Extraterrestre [Colombia, Cumbia/Afrobeat/Disco/Space/Rock] [1983] - this is just crazy as it sounds

Afrosound - El Regreso de E.T. el Extraterrestre [Colombia, Cumbia/Afrobeat/Disco/Space/Rock] [1983] - this is just crazy as it sounds
https://redd.it/518rng
https://youtu.be/R_5xtN8CUYk

Black Arches with Sexton Ming - Folly, by Black Arches 7 track album

In March, we released 'Folly' a collaboration with Sexton Ming on @rocketrecordings.bsky.social blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/black-... "The Arches trio cover every blade of astral grass with rare Faust-cubed abstraction." - The Quietus

Bin day was so traumatic for me (in my previous house) that I wrote a story about it in my book Terminal Zones.

Thanks Bob! Also had a bin day panic because of full bin and no collection yesterday. Thankfully they just turned up. Order is restored.

Black Arches With Sexton Ming – Bin Day YouTube video by Rocket Recordings

And I made a video about bins youtu.be/OXvHXTFfI-w?...

Things that never happened Available on vinyl from elastic stage

Also this year, I played some guitar and shouted some vocals on some of the tracks on 'Things that never happened' by Black Adastra @blackadastra.bsky.social
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Monstrosities Mon Amour: Junction 3 of the M32 in Bristol with Gareth E Rees #5. John Grindrod meets writer Gareth E Rees to explore the strange hidden life of a pedestrian junction of a motorway and the haunted power of cardigans.

From earlier this year - my tuppenceworth on inner city motorways and cardigans - 'Monstrosities Mon Amour: Junction 3 of the M32 in Bristol' - with @grindrod.bsky.social johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...

Low winter sunshine blasts through the blinds of a house window

I wrote a micro piece about midwinter sunshine and interstellar visitors for @necessaryfiction.com's 'Points of Light' necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

Thanks!

Car Park Life, A Portrait of Britain's Unexplored Urban Wilderness, by Gareth E. Rees. Car parks: commonplace urban landscapes, little-explored and rarely featured in art and music, yet they shape the aesthetics of our towns and cities. Hotspots for crime, rage and sexual deviancy; a blind spot in which activities go unnoticed. Skateboarding, car stunts, drug dealing, dogging, murder. Gareth E. Rees believes that the retail car park has as much mystery, magic and terror as any mountain, meadow or wood. He's out to prove it by walking the car parks of Britain, journeying across the country from Plymouth to Edinburgh, much to the horror of his family, friends - and, most of all - himself. He finds Sir Francis Drake outside B&Q, standing stones in a retail park, and a dead body beside Sainsbury's. In this darkly satirical work of non-fiction, Gareth E. Rees presents a troubling vision of Brexit Britain through a common space we know far less about than we think.

2020 #55
My first encounter with the distinctive work of @garetherees.bsky.social , one of the best chroniclers of modern Britain around. Love the quote that described this as a "retail park Heart of Darkness." 😄 There's info in the alt text and I loved it. @influxpress.bsky.social
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Day 2 of our solstice gathering features writing by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, Catherine Reedy, Kendra Cardin, @garetherees.bsky.social, @nonabiding.bsky.social, @erinkeane.bsky.social, @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social, Lleyton Michael Kane, and Warren Stoddard II. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...