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My son's new band, 72 Houses, with their original Sticks & Stones. He's the guitarist.

Currently

My band Holy Coves Autumn Tour starts this Thursday in Bristol, Liverpool & Birmingham for the opening weekend 🙌

Fully Independent. Fully Lovely, Cool & Sexy!

I had you at my band of course!

See you soon you awesome beautiful people 😘

This anthology came out under the radar this year but am remedying that. I came into the project to help get it out and this most certainly wouldn't have been achieved without the work of Noel Osualdini & Dan Franklin. A proper team effort. www.amazon.com/Monster-Bone...

Front cover of Harrowfield novel Lower half, dark green almost black with title and author name. Above is a solitary tree sheltering two small standing stones. The sky is a sludgy green.

Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales.

When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. And now Midsummer approaches ...

mybook.to/Harrowfield

Sorry you can hear my shouts a bit, but here's a clip from NMA at Birmingham institute for their rescheduled Unbroken tour.

Saw New Model Army this week.

Book cover of Harrowfield. Tree shading two standing stones.

Folk horror for autumn.

Take a walk in the Harrow Field,
but only during the day.
At night the folk of green and gold
decide it's time to play ...

Out October 1st

mybook.to/Harrowfield

Hey Tam, I keep forgetting to post here. Yeah, I'm older but no wiser. Early retirement in my sights. You and yours all good?

My skull burns with ideas that never sleep.
Machines hum lullabies of endless tasks.
I lean closer to the screen’s pale mercy
and offer my mind, one line at a time,
to the quiet hunger of code,
the cold indifference of the algorithm.

Hope everyone got a ticket 🎟️

The real me is the worst of the bunch!

Well, the #sheffhorrorfest #celluloidscreams lineup looks great. I can't go, but I'm sure people will keep me in the loop. Enjoy the digital ticket scrum Saturday.

The Midnight Sky Dog is now one spoiled and entitled pooch since Hobbs passed.

Sorry I've not posted in an age. I've been doing all the usual stuff.

Recent

I've got to remember to post here.

Here, we bare our souls and can't bear arseholes.

The Cure released #Disintegration 35 years ago today. A pivotal time in my young life, a pivotal time in my musical leanings! This album literally changed everything for me.

Really wish I was up at #CultureShock - I equate Sheffield with my cinema life and the Cell crowd are some of my finest friends.

It's not being a father, it's being called 'Dad' when they've no longer a need, when there's no other reason than that's what they mean.

That's when your heart sings.

That's when you know you did one good thing in the world.

I love my Dad.

I'm loved as a dad.

It's enough.

Cheers Vincente. Good to be having ideas again.

The sky cracked, oceans rose, and the world quietly burned. Most ran, some begged, a few prayed -
but me?
I poured a large one and watched.
Why would I run when the world was already ending?
Not every ending needs a survivor.
Some just need a witness.

Really good reading

If you've been listening to @classicfm.com Hall of Fame over the weekend, you might (or might not) be interested in my own personal #Top5 pieces of classical music that I wrote about here www.omandoriginal.com/2018/04/top-...

All done

Reality is frayed.
I can’t grasp the shape of silence
between each tick of the clock,
how furniture shifts when I blink,
or why the mirror never shows me leaving.

Ah, right - I think I know what you were saying. I've also got #ScuttlersCove which I'm reading next - I tried a steampunk novel but it wasn't landing.