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Cardiff/Caerdydd - jack of all trades (published writer, avid reader, pie in the sky producer, father, hiker, half-arsed abstract expressionist, humble suprematist, fastidious futurist, tea drinking dadaist, manic multi-instrumentalist, podcaster of ‘These Weird Isles’, lead singer of Shiny Tram) forever seeking out musicians and artists to finance and/or facilitate eccentric and perhaps not commercially viable collaborations.
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You think there’s such a thing as sophisticated gravy? Oxomoron.
Measuring life - is it in your sighs?
It’s a beautiful, crystalline day in Wales. High up a plane cuts across the sky, a wren lands on my garden table, a ball of feathery energy.
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On this day, August 22, 1485 - Bosworth Field, a battle in which Henry Vll defeated Richard lll. In this soundpiece (it’s not a podcast - there’s no laughing) an octopus roams Leicestershire searching for facts. Features a dismantled grand piano and a distressed cello. Also on Soundcloud, Apple, Amazon etc (search ‘these weird isles’)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6k2sWwFSSrbVlcDXTVjDnL?si=BfMEI7K2Tj6hOk2Q7zQuiQ

Bosworth Field

Episode · these weird isles · An octopus searches for the location of a battle that took place in August, 1485. Facts are disputed. Five hundred years later the body of King Richard the Third is discovered in a social services car park in Leicester. The octopus studies the menu in the battlefield visitors’ centre and notices an absence of Welsh dishes.

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