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Escape from London 2012: The Neo-Trekkers of Hackney & Walthamstow Marshes
In Trekkers:Edgeland Renegades from London’s Lie-Dream I wrote about the people who ran away to Hackney marshes and Epping Forest to escape the Blitz bombing. In doing so, they were banished from the...
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Rebel River: A Heroic History of the Lee
The Thames cuts a lonely swathe through maps of contemporary London. Looked at from above, she’s one of the last visible reminders of a landscape lost beneath sediments of concrete and steel. She...
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A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes: Music from the Marshes Live at the Union Chapel
“There is a hole in London, which swallows up the city’s time….” I’m hugely nervous and excited to announce that on Saturday 20th October I’ll be performing A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes at The Union...
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Red Night – A Soundchronicity Walk on Hackney Marsh
Soundchronicities are those moments where the music you are listening to fuses with your environment, creating powerful impressions. For my latest experiment I listened to TVO’s Red Night while walking...
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Through the Walthamstow Rabbit Hole
The Rabbit Hole is at the north corner of Walthamstow marsh, where the reservoirs and railway lines converge at a five foot bridge. The entrance is a dark letterbox which threatens to collapse with the...
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Oh No, it’s Another Lea Marshes Spandex Pylon Raveorgy!
It began just before dusk with the sound of cracking concrete behind Walthamstow marsh. The horses in the Lee Riding Centre whinnied in panic. A kestrel wheeled away from its hunt and shot across the...
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How I Ruined Hackney (& the Mystery of “The Hackney Slap”)
On a bright afternoon I was on Walthamstow marsh with my dog Hendrix, walking beneath the brow of the old aqueduct path where the brambles grow. He was coming the other way, a stocky man, late 40s,...
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A Dream of Flight Over Walthamstow Marsh
In 1909 a man built a wooden aeroplane, and rolled it onto Walthamstow Marsh… Here is ‘Flight’, from an album I’ve made with Jetsam called A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes. The track is about the...
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Dead Bears, Ghost Factories & Blitz Secrets: The Hackney Marsh Tour Extravaganza
In a moment – BIG news about the forthcoming marsh tour extravaganza…. But first… On Wednesday 2nd November there will be a live performance of A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes, a hallucinatory journey...
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Soundchronicities: Exploring The Hallucinatory Sounds of London’s Wilderness
At long last, Marshland: Dreams & Nightmares on the Edge of London is out now on Influx Press, (order it here) The book is a time-travel journey through the Lea Marshes, weaving together...
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