This month, as it’s nearly Christmas, I decide not to get up, so put my headphones in and fall back into the land of dreams… Soundscapes by Simon Buckley / Not Quite Light Music includes tracks by Keeley Forsyth, Erland Cooper, Ichiko Aoba and Einojuhani Rautavaara. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
This month I take a dawn walk to Piccadilly Station… A slightly new format this time on the Not Quite Light radio show, as I put on my headphones and wander up to Piccadilly at daybreak, listening to music and the sounds I encounter along the way, including an unexpected encounter with a Nigerian radio presenter inspecting tickets at the end of platform 1… Tracks include Sarah Neufeld, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Franz Shubert. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
In this month’s show I reveal stories of ancestors, loss and identity… In late September I travelled to Hull with artist Gareth Smith ( aka Vanishing ) and interviewed him at dawn on the banks of the Humber, among the old docks. We discuss his great-grandfather, a trawlerman killed at sea in 1904, and the generational consequences of this tragic death. Gareth’s project 55°N, 5°E was performed live at Hull City of Culture in 2017, and an album of this […]
SHOCK CITY A feature written for the second edition of Shock City, whilst working on my project, “Dark Days, Luminous Nights” for the Manchester Collective. I was originally going to write about one of the many walks I’d taken during the first lockdown, journeys often over10 miles that either led me into unexpected spaces, or that reconnected me with old ways not taken for far too long. I was going to talk of encountering the disused Mather and Platt foundry […]
I’ve been interviewed for the Photography Daily podcast, in which I talk about the origins of NQL, and the various things that inspire my ways of working. I like doing interviews, as it’s like a form of therapy, and you can empty your head of all the elements clouding your mind. LISTEN HERE