Merry Christmas everybody.
News! News!! News!!!
The past few weeks have been a crazy time as I have been so busy getting the following things together but they’re all ready to roll now, so here we go!
I have a record coming out! It’s called ‘Humming New Time‘ and it’s out on Olynka records, a new label set up by Tom Morris of Her Name is Calla. It’s available on download or as a limited number of CDs with hand printed linocut sleeves (it took a while to get them right!)NOW!!!! I intend to write soon about the record and what and why it is but in the meantime, here’s a picture of the sleeves drying in my kitchen
and you can stream (and purchase) below
But this is not all. This weekend I do my first gig in around 14 months. I am a bit nervous and worried about it all but I/m just about ready. It’s at the Red Tent in Leicester as art of the White Noise Festival Christmas event. Robot Needs Home have released a compilation for the event of local acts doing Christmas songs to which I have contributed a version of ‘Silent Night’. It’s available as a cd on the day or as a download from the Robot Needs Home store. It’s only £2 and every single penny raised from the sale and the event itself goes to LOROS. So dig in!
Stamp of the week
My Instagram Christmas stamp binge continues apace. Have been super busy of late so posting anything has been quite difficult. However, there’s much news to deliver as I’ll post later this week.
Stamp of the week
I’m attempting a Christmas stamp a day on my Instagram in the run up to Christmas – this is day 3.
Stamp of the week
Belated stamp if the week
Stamp of the week
I think I mentioned last week how disappointed I was with the look of this year’s first class Royal Mail stamp. Well this week I received my first letter with one on it.
However, it was what was inside this envelope that was special. A cd from Mark Peter Wright.
I was put onto the path of ‘Where Once We Walked’ by the Twitter stream of Cheryl Tipp, wildlife sounds curator at the British Library – her Twitter feed is a constant source of audio gold and I recommend everyone to follow her.
‘Where Once We walked ‘ is a sound composition based on recordings gathered from the Polish homes of child Holocaust survivors who came to the Lake District in 1945. It’s an amazing piece of work – the sounds draw you in and take you on a fascinating journey, a really vivid experience. I can’t recommend it enough.
Signs
Should hopefully be able to post on some news on music being released soon. Until then – here are some road signs from the Cotswold Motor Museum
Stamp of the week
A few random stamps from the pot. I was going to post the 2011 Royal Mail Christmas first class stamps that came out this week but I’m really underwhelmed by them.
Murmuration
I was put on to this video by my good friend Stephen Hiscox (who himself put up a great video I’ll post about about soon) and am most thankful for seeing it as it captures something incredible and fascinating. I remember in my early teens getting the bus home from school and seeing thousands of starlings doing this over Abbey Park in Leicester. Yep, in the middle of a city. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything like this in Leicester.
Enjoy.
Stamp of the week
Some more of the current-ish UK stamps – I suppose I could look at the Royal Mail site but that would take the fun of going to the post office and asking “for some first class stamps please, the nice ones with pictures on them”.
These are on a ‘postcard’ for an environmental scientist. Just need his address (hint).
I’ve never been to Glastonbury but wanted to walk up to the Tor when I saw it once when travelling to Street in Somerset.
peter wyeth 
