I know right! All good here, might have something new brewing but it could take a while…

fields: churches & rivers, by spaceship 9 track album

Realised it’s ten years since I released this. It was the first time I’d tried recording music in the field and the first time I’d got artwork from @maximpetergriff.bsky.social .
Also featuring the fiddle of @schoolofnoise.bsky.social founder Dan Mayfield and mastered by Jacob Mayfield.

Thanks!

now playing on THE PERIPHERY on NOISEBOX RADIO:

moss crop – nottamun town (Forged River Recordings)

spaceship.bandcamp.com

@noiseboxradio.com

I’m no expert in Roman and post-Roman history, but I thought I was reasonably well read. However, I’ve just discovered in @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Domination book that there was a tribe of Barbarians called the Alans. Alans. I look differently now at all the Alans I have known.

Either ‘Oi!’ Or a very loud and exaggerated clearing of the the throat; ‘Ahhhh-hhggggmmmmmm!’

The PPYO in a cemetery in Halifax…

For some reason, my brain read ‘calendar’ and I began, for an instant, to try and work out what year it would work again in…

In our house, we announce that dinner’s ready with ‘It is time!’

black hameldon, by moss crop 3 track album

Out now! Listen to it all. Buy it if you like!

#dronemusic #folk #dronefolk

spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/black-...

I enjoyed S1 but the first half of S2 even seemed like that to me, who knows nothing about games. It seemed to rally a bit towards the end, but you know how easily pleased I am…

My gamer brother in law says it feels just like playing Fallout, just a series of little puzzles and objects to collect from the right people in the right order I guess.

My youth orchestra/workshop, the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra is going to be at @krankenhausfest.bsky.social this summer. This is great news!

@seapowerband.bsky.social

Are you watching Fallout?

You can preview two of the three pieces and watch interesting videos here:

youtube.com/@mosscrop?si...

We went to a three hour performance of the Simon Armitage translation of this accompanied by the Folklore Tapes lot at Christmas.
It was great. Highlight: the Green Knight describing Sir Gawain as a ‘namby pamby knight’…

Drone folk from Todmorden!

spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/black-...

#folkmusic #folk #todmorden #dronefolk

Stone Report - S2E3 - Lligwy Burial Chamber YouTube video by Mark Williamson

Love the whole ‘thousands of years of history in a couple of fields’ thing there… youtu.be/kLg-lWSYpDI?...

Aw thanks! There’s lots more Stone Reports on that channel if you’re into that kind of thing…

Stone Report - Hetty Pegler's Tump YouTube video by Mark Williamson

Thought so! I’ve been there and remembered reading that Roman bits were found in there. My prehistoric tunnel vision neglected to notice the massive Roman site nearby!
I made this little film about it: youtu.be/bP5j13N_yPI?...

Is that Hetty Pegler’s Tump down the bottom?

Music people. I need a new Windows laptop that can handle music stuff and also small 4K video editing jobs. I can perhaps pay Mac prices but don’t want a Mac. Been using Windows since 3.1 and I’m too old to learn a new OS. Any suggestions? Thanks!

After all those beautiful, efficient European trains, I was rather hoping for a grubby and delayed East Coast Mainline up to Hadrian’s Wall though. Next time?

I enjoyed @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Roman Empire on the train, especially see Figueras where my then nine year old sister had a major meltdown as she didn’t want to see ‘more ruins’.

Dame Jenni Murray: Former BBC Woman's Hour host dies at 75 She was the Radio 4 programme's longest-serving presenter, having left in 2020 after 33 years.

I worked for a couple of winters in a warehouse in Nantes fixing up camping equipment and doing general warehouse things.
We could get Radio 4 on longwave and would time the jobs we could do in the warm breakroom to coincide with Woman’s Hour. Four lads in their 20s/30s.

The PPYO really droning it up this week…

Oh, I’ve been eyeing that up in the bookshop. Hope it’s as good as it promises to be!

Northern Earth 183, Spring 2026, is out now: In this issue: John Aubrey at 400; Neolithic Malta; stone circles in Northern Ireland and Cumbria; Merlin in Scotland, and more… More: http://www.megalithi

Population: Nil, by Null 5 track album

Looks familiar… harmonicunionmusic.bandcamp.com/album/popula...

piano improvisations, by primitive percussion youth orchestra ft: m.williamson 5 track album

Kids always want to have a go on the piano and teachers say ‘no’. Well, I said ‘yes’.

backupdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...