With it getting very close to the new album release date (27th Feb) I was interviewed by Bob Fischer for Electronic Sound Magazine. This interview plus album review are in this months edition (Issue 134) just think of all the fun you can have reading my daft ramblings and explanations for track titles. Here is the front cover, review and excerpt of interview.
https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/issue-134
A nice end of year surprise. My last self release CD/Digi made it into
the Electronic Sound Mag end of year top 100. Number 14. Def did not see
that coming. Hopefully new Castles in Space Album and remix single
2025. Also for your listening pleasure something from my past should make an appearence early 2025.
Some recent reviews for the last long player a skip and a song to see us along.
Available from Bandcamp
A Shindig an Electronic Sound and a Fortean Times
Over the last few years I have been interviewed and have chatted with Bob Fischer a number of times for Electronic Sound Magazine and Bob's superb Haunted Generation site. Bob is a wonderful chap and I always really enjoy chatting with him. So with all that in mind here are some links to Bob's Haunted Generation site and some of the chats and bits and bobs and mentions about myself and my past.
https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2023/04/28/the-dark-room-thunderbirds-are-not-go-by-keith-seatman/
https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2022/05/16/keith-seatman-the-gnome-zone-and-sad-old-tatty-bunting/
https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2021/10/08/the-dark-room-1978-bedroom-floor-by-keith-seatman/
https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2020/08/25/electronic-sound-reviews-issue-62/
https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2020/04/25/the-haunted-generation-in-the-fortean-times-issue-391/
TRIP ADVISOR
There is nobody quite like Keith Seatman. His new album Sad Old Tatty Bunting is a psychedelic joyride through a parallel universe England, a dreamlike realm of alchemists, scarecrows and gnome-filled gated communities. Passports out, everyone, for a one-way journey to Seatmanworld. Words: Bob Fischer
Full interview Electronic Sound interview here
In Jan 2022 I was interviewed by the wonderfull Mr Bob Fischer for Electronic Sound.
Bob and I chatted about Alchemists, Gnomes, Out of bounds Grandparents rooms, Franny Lee, odd Parades, Strange Solicitors, half baked ideas, Devo Cardiacs The Cramps old Cassette Recordings and other daft ramblings? This interview has surfaced and was in the March 2022 edition of Electronic Sound. Sad Old Tatty Bunting Out Now on Castles in Space
Some links to thoughts ramblings and waffle from my brain.
Interview from Haunted Generation
and some questions from Wyrd Daze
https://wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/wyrd-question-daze-keith-seatman/
"Good eventide, earbandits. You are invited on a journey of shelf
discovery, as you take a trip to Wunderland - the Poundland of magical
realms. It’s a kingdom much like our own, yet also nothing like it in
the slightest" Alice's Wunderland is a Comedy sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe, narrated by Marcia Warren
I 1st became aware of this funny and magical series via Bob Fischer's Haunted Generation.
Bob interviewed Alice Lowe and in the interview Bob asked Alice about his favorite episode of Wunderland. "Can I ask about your radio show, Alice’s Wunderland?
There’s one episode in particular that I love, and it ties in with lots
of things that we’ve talked about. It’s the episode with the ghost of a
child who has died in 1977. And everything is in there: there
are Public Information Films, creepy school assembly songs, pantomime
dames… was that episode a nice way of chucking all of your favourite
scary 1970s things in there?" (Bob Fischer Haunted Generation)
The whole series is really wonderful and a joy, but this episode (Series 3 episode 2) really is spot on with its 70s public information references, Panto Dames as Police Men, creepy things. A Child Ghost who died in the 70s after being killed by a speeding icecream van and also getting his PE bag tangled in a drunken moped belonging to a stranger who handed him a hot sparkler which he touched without gloves, then in hospital threw a frizzbee to his friend which went into the pathway of oncoming cows. Then he got squeshed. Trapped in time with the same haircut the Child Ghost enlists Alice to help him solve his murder. Lots of fantastic nods to many other series "Oh for a kind lady with a Scandinavian accent and forensic pullover". Very funny and superbly written.
All episodes available on the iPlayer
Interview with Alice Lowe (Velvet Onion 2012)
I first became aware of Quentin's surreal and wonderful work via Jim Jupp at Ghostbox Records. Jim sent me a link to two of Quentin's Youtube Videos (Bird Box Orchestra and Picture Box extended ending) I became quite obsessed with watching these (last time I got like this was when I kept watching Salad Fingers) I should point out that Quentin is the creation of writer, film-maker and performer Sean Reynard. Tap his name into Google and you get this wonderful description. Quentin Smirhes,
created by writer and film maker Sean Reynard is the febrile
re-imagining of children's school TV from the seventies cupboard. It's like 'Vision On' directed by Jan Svankmajer. Bob Fischer had a very in depth and lovely interview with Sean Reynard for his excellent Haunted Generation site.
For all Quentin's wonderful videos go here
You can purchase Quentin some Luncheon Meat here.
