Hey loves,

I hope you're all doing really well. Been a while since the last one! I feel like I've lived a lifetime since, but haven't had anything to report on the music front. Instead I've been locked away working on PhD applications while trying to navigate some pretty big changes (some terrifying and some really lovely), and a pretty relentless slew of realisations about myself. Intense as fuck but really exciting and as of final submissions this weekend I'll be re-emerging into the world and oriented towards fun in all its manifestations - can't wait to see as many of you as I can :) Keeping it brief this time round but couple of things I wanted to share:

Narr Sunday 23/01

Back on Narr this Sunday from 1-2pm in my new monthly spot :) Something a little different from me this month. I was laid out sick for a couple of weeks over Christmas and when I’m feeling fraught and low I tend to reach for things that are bleak and achingly beautiful - Pure Shores on a hangover right? I rewatched Paris, Texas and Wild At Heart, and for the first time read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - a stunning book that made me feel like a teenager again, and a heartbreaking study in isolation. I have a real big thing for the American South, a sublime and truly weird part of the world, that’s full of ghosts and heavy with history in a wholly different way to the otherworldly deep time of Britain. So I have a lot of love for road movies, there's something about the intense psychodrama of individual lives and relationships set against such a relentlessly bleak and unmoving landscape, that ties my insides in knots. This one’s a tribute to the haunted South, a haunting that’s deeply entwined with the material life of recording technologies. Deep and lengthy drone works interplay with the disembodied voice of William Burroughs, abstracted in cut up tape, and crackly 7” rips carry echoes of long dead blues, outsider country, and rock ’n’roll singers, the reverberations of youth and love and pain from another generation, in another time.

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Half Edge 001

The tape's in shops! Copies at All Night Flight and Peste (in-store only but if you're in Manchester and haven't got down here yet what are u doing), and should be going up at Rwd-Fwd soon enough. Also plenty still about on the Bandcamp if that's what ur into.

Private link to the full recording here tho, for you good people:

Lots of love

Mike xx