NQL now has a monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. In the March episode I explore memory, and how it shapes us and affects our lives. Ahead of the Not Quite Light Festival at the end of March in Salford, I interview playwright Joshua Val Martin, who will be premiering a specially commissioned work at the festival, called Beneath These Tarmac Cracks, co-written with Ellie Scanlan. With music by Johnny Cash, The Unthanks and Brian Eno, amongst others. […]
TO LISTEN CLICK HERE NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. This month’s show, for January 2019, features the very talented poet Emily Oldfield, who I interviewed at dawn on a bridge in Hulme, made famous by a photograph of Joy Division from 40 years ago. We explore the thinking behind resolutions and the need for fresh starts. Film clips from The Shawshank Redemption, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and It’s A […]
PICTURES IN NEED OF A SOUNDTRACK The work that I recently did around Gloucester in New England is now being exhibited at The Creameries in Chorlton, Manchester. LIMITED EDITION PRINTS ARE FOR SALE ONLINE – CLICK HERE The photographs being exhibited were captured during September 2018, whilst I was staying near the old American fishing port of Gloucester in New England, a town famous for being the birthplace of Birdseye frozen foods and the film Perfect Storm. The area, with […]
NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. This month’s show sees me travel across the M62 to Hull to interview author Russ Litten. We discuss Hull fair, and how where we are from shapes who we are. I visit the room where I was actually born and wonder about sliding doors, and who i might have become if I’d lived in Hull. With music from The Doves, Willy Mason, Eric Random and Honeyfeet amongst […]
The latest NQL radio on reform Radio is now online. It was inspired by a recent visit to Manchester By The Sea in New England. The show is about connections, loss and overcoming emotional distress. It’s the 3rd episode of monthly recordings for Reform. The next show will be live on Nov 13th, and will explore ideas of identity and roots. CLICK HERE to listen to the October show CLICK HERE for the NQL Podcast page, and further episodes.</spa
NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. This month’s show is about connections and loss, and features an interview made in Manchester By The Sea, New England, made famous by the movie of the same name. It takes an unexpected and personal turn, and features music from both sides of the Atlantic, including Jane Weaver, Lonelady and I Am Kloot from the city of Manchester. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN PLAYLIST
NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. Click the link to listen to the July show online, which was partly recorded in Antwerp, Belgium. It explores themes of escape and love, when I meet up with an ex-girlfriend I haven’t seen for 16 years. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. Click the link to listen to the July show online: NQL ON REFORM RADIO
I’ve begun a monthly Not Quite Light radio show with Reform Radio. The first one was broadcast at 5am on July 24th, with the next one due to go out in August. The hour long programme consists of a mixture of readings, interviews and music inspired by the half light of dawn. This is the ‘listen again’ link to hear the first epiosode: NQL on Reform Radio
On Monday 4th June I will be interviewing Dave Haslam about his newly published book, ‘Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor’ at the Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. The book recounts Dave’s life in Manchester from the early 1980s through to the present day, and takes in tales of love, music and personal revelation. It’s a parable for those times, and brilliantly evokes the chaos and excitement of the Hacineda years, as well as taking us through the decades that […]