The British Space Group @ Hay

Hi all

You may have noticed that blog posts here are few and far between at the moment as I've been dealing with the aftereffects of the COVID bout that hospitalised me last summer but I've not gone away entirely and hopefully normal service will resume at some point soon.

In the meantime, I thought I'd stop by and let you all know about a rare live performance from my The British Space Group project at The Old Electric Shop in Hay-on-Wye on Saturday the 22nd of April alongside Henrik Nørstebo, and Jacken Elswyth. More details can be found here.

For those that don't know, I've been making my strange & post industrial music under various guises since the late 90s. Using my current British Space Group alias I am actively trying to explore narrative in my work and tell stories of the type I feature here on Wyrd Britain.  My most recent album 'The Machinery of the Moment' was released last year and tells the story of a man becoming unmoored from time.  Previous albums have explored 'thin places' - 'The Ley of the Land' - and other dimensions - 'The Phantasmagoria'.

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The Machinery of the Moment

Wyrd Britain is a blog about stories, about the fictions we create around this odd little country some of us call home; stories about thin places and lost places, stone circles and ancient woodlands, about rabbit holes and hills of dreams, time travellers and triffids.  

The Wyrd Britain label expands on this theme by releasing music that also tells stories,  music with a narrative and a sense of the mysterious that would be at home within the occult territories of a stranger Britain.

Following on from 2020's 'The Ley of the Land' 'The Machinery of the Moment' tells a story of an extended moment. Of the point where perception of time - or perhaps even time itself - collapses and we exist in a state of timelessness; a minute in an hour, an hour in a minute, a lifetime lived in the second between the tick and the tock.

'The Machinery of the Moment' is the fifth release from Ian Holloway's current project 'The British Space Group'.  It is a deliberate attempt to merge the music he has created under various guises over the last two decades and released on labels like Quiet World, Fungal and Siren Wire with his love of the strange and supernatural fiction featured on the Wyrd Britain blog. 

'The Machinery of the Moment' is available for download or as a limited edition CDr by clicking on the player below.

 

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If you enjoy what we do here on Wyrd Britain and would like to help us continue then we would very much welcome a donation towards keeping the blog going - paypal.me/wyrdbritain

Affiliate links are provided for your convenience and to help mitigate running costs.