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 […]
In this episode of the Not Quite Light Podcast I spend dawn with those that feed us. I travel the city centre streets of Manchester with Dave, a milkman with Creamline dairies. I take in the smells and sounds of the wholesale market at Openshaw with Lucy Noone and her dad Mike, who run R Noone & Son, supplying fruit and vegetables to cafes and restaurants across the North West. And I watch fresh bread being made at the Trove […]
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE SLIDESHOW FULL SIZED Photographs from a night spent inside the interior of the London Road Fire Station in Manchester, recently saved from demolition and now due to evolve into a hotel, workspaces and apartments.
In this episode of the Not Quite Light podcast I visit Dartmoor in a hurricane, and also talk to Manchester artist Claire Riley about working at dawn in the city, and our need to sometimes escape. CLICK HERE to see a gallery of work from the journey. TO SEE ARTIST CLAIRE RILEY’S WORK BY CLICK HERE
I currently have two photographs on show in Hope Mill, Manchester, as part of a group show for Comme Ca PR. The two photographs are – ‘I THOUGHT I’D SEEN A UNICORN’ & ‘SHOULD I FOLLOW A BEGUILING PATH?’ In October I spent two weeks on Dartmoor, collecting photographs and recording for a podcast. Whilst I was there Hurricane Ophelia swept in, bringing a coating of Saharan dust that turned the sky pink, and Storm Brian changed the atmosphere so […]