This month I mix the sounds from a single, unfolding dawn with delicious soothing music. Birdsong and chilled, ambient sounds. Take your time with this show, it’s an opportunty to relax. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
PODCASTS
This month I mix the sounds from a single, unfolding dawn with delicious soothing music. Birdsong and chilled, ambient sounds. Take your time with this show, it’s an opportunty to relax. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
ANCOATS, MANCHESTER 5.24AM The decision as to where I will photograph at dawn is often taken the moment I turn the ignition in my car. A flock of choices swirl around my head, as if a strong breeze has caught a pile of carefully folded orders, and I must somehow pluck one out of the air. Once I’ve grasped my instructions, I’m aware and accept that I’ve set off on a particular path of fate, and that what I encounter […]
HIGHER BROUGHTON, SALFORD, SPRING EQUINOX 5.49AM The previous evening had been spent with a close friend, wandering the haunts of his past life as a student living in the area quite some years ago, him scampering childlike up and down the street where he had once shared a house. He marvelled at the changes, minimal to my eyes, but to him an era now lost and forever altered by passing time. The area’s residents are now often Orthodox Jews, and […]
MON 13th October – MON 17th November 2025 7pm -10pm ( 6 weeks, including one weekend afternoon session ) NQL HQ, GF 008, The Courtyard, Islington Mill, James St, M3 5HW LOVE TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS, AND WANT TO BE EVEN BETTER? This course will take you on a journey to help you take the pictures that you want to take… Join me in the Not Quite Light Studio 6 weekly lessons, starting on Monday 13th October 2025, and learn how […]
This month I go for a night walk up the Irk Valley with my friend Nick Dunn, amongst the ghosts bats and rats of this etheral land, and discuss ideas from his new book Dark Futures. Soundscapes by Not Quite Light, and music features tracks from Space Afrika, Yumi Iwaki and Aphex Twin. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
Join Not Quite Light for the monthly rummage through the box of sounds under my bed for an eclectic mix of field recordings and delicious music. There is a hint of spring to this month, and I feature tracks by Alice Boyd, Antony Szmierek, Pefkin and Duke Ellington. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
WHERE WILL THE SOULS OF THE DEAD LIVE NOW? Angel Meadow is a crucible land. Once bucolic, it became home to a notorious slum in the years of the industrial revolution, and at its northern end a now anonymous pauper’s burial ground conceals the bodies of up to 40,000 people. In recent years a vast sum of money from Hong Kong has been invested in regenerating the local district, and Angel Meadow, deemed a park these days, is slowly being […]
Join Not Quite Light for an eclectic mix of field recordings and delicious music…… This month field recordings from Poland and Antwerp, blended with the usual mix of delicious music. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
This short documentary features the late Joan Hibberd, who lived to be 102 years old, a life long Socialst activist, who was born and bred in Trafford, south of Manchester.This film was made as she approached her 100th birthday. Directed by Simon Buckley Additional camera & editing Pete Tomkies With great thanks to the Joan, and all her family. Also, to Kate Green and Stretford Urmston CLP or supporting the film
GATHERING POINTS We’re better when we work together…. A film about the people of Swinton, and the places they gather to tell their stories. This is a film that explores community through the voices of people that live, work and volunteer in the town of Swinton, Salford. We visit five venues; The Valley Gardens, The Swinton Nail salon, The Hive Cafe, The Parade Chippy and the Grand Palais. Stories emerge, that reveal the human connections we can all make, and […]