Around the Folly Shindig 39

The new (release date 19th May) Album Around the Folly and Down Hill has just got a rather cracking review in issue 39 of Shindig Magazine. So a big thanks to Jon Mojo Mills for this review. Album excerpts here

Douglas E Powell & the Rising Spirit St Anne's Chapel

If your in North Devon around the 30th of May, then you really should pop along to St Anne's Chapel Barnstable to see Douglas E Powell & the Rising Spirit do their thing.

Alt-folk, alt-country, acoustica and Anglo Americana; Douglas E Powell is both a lyricist and poetic singer-songwriter. His songs are wistful, melancholy and fragile. Layering wistful stories over classic English folk blended with alt-country, he is well known in the south west live music and gig scene. Musical influences derive from a mixture of American country music, blues and folk music.

Something Interesting this way comes

All thats left of the once mighty Badge collection

Whilst having a rummage around in the loft the other day, I came across all that is left of my mighty badge collection. I say mighty because it was. From Jelly Tots and Rhubarb to UFO Punk/Post Punk, Star Wars (Where did they go??) and beyond. The Swell Maps and Undertones badges are a tad rusty. The reason for this is I fell into a river with these two pinned to my old black Harrington Jacket.  This lot I will hang onto.

2 Men Twisting in a Valley

A few weeks back, I headed West to Twister Valley North Devon to catch up with my friend singer songwriter and all round top chap Mr Douglas E Powell. When there I asked Mr P if he would be interested in writing some lyrics and singing on some new tunes/ideas that I am working on. Mr P said he would be very interested in doing this, so a new project is now looming for much later in 2014/15. After this discussion we adjourned to Mr P's studio to listen to records play some new tunes, and drink cider and ale (Doug Cider, me Ale)
Early next morning we had a stroll through Twister Valley, where I finally saw the Crackling Buzzing pole which Doug had sampled the year before. As usual a fantastic time in Twister Valley with Doug and his wonderful family.

Twister Valley

Wind Turbines for the Twister Valley Studio 

The Buzzing Pole

My new Friend

A Lost Hour or Two

I have been informed that on March 29th I will be venturing into Southsea/Portsmouth to play a DJ set at The King St Tavern as part of The Lost Hour events. All looks and sounds very interesting so best I turn up. If all goes to plan I should be playing at about 5pm. If I don't turn up send out a search party, look for a sad looking chap wandering around lost and carrying a box of records hassling tourists for money.

New Album Excerpts (May 2014 Release)

Here are some excerpts from the new keith seatman album Around the Folly and Down Hill. There are 12 tracks on the album but only 8 excerpts here for the time being.The tracks included here are The Inside Out Man, Future Usefulness & Happiness, Into the Well, A Specific Function, Play by the River, Susan’s Always Strange, The Binocular Boy,  A Gathering of the Odd. 
Written recorded and produced by keith seatman 
All instruments keith seatman 
Additional production jim jupp

Mastering by jack packer 

Around the Folly and Down Hill is available as a CD and Digital download from Bandcamp. 
by: K.S.Audio ksa 003

Release date: May 2014

Alien Jams Sunday 23rd

Alien Jams w/ Chloe Frieda featuring Keith Seatman - 23rd February 2014 by Nts Radio on Mixcloud

Here is last Sundays NTS Radio Alien Jams with myself as guest. Had a great time, 
played some tunes, drank lots of coffee and met some very nice people. A rather grand day out.

Androgynous Mind. March 8th

I was on NTS Radio Alien Jams last Sunday and Chloe who presents Alien Jams told me about an event that she was promoting and taking part in.
Chloe is part of a collective of ladies organizing an International Women’s Day event at London’s Ace Hotel on the 8th of March that will incorporate both djs and performance art!

International Women’s Day, originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked as a holiday on March 8 in many countries across the world. Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday somehow lost its political flavour, however we don’t want to forget its origins and want to celebrate the social and cultural achievements of the women of the world and also raise awareness towards mistreatment of women.

Excerpts from the event will be broadcast on the Alien Jams show on NTS Radio at 5pm on Sunday 16 March. Tune in to http://ntslive.co.uk/

DJs / sound collage:
Blenda Jaxxon (Castlemania)
Chloe Frieda (NTS / Alien Jams)
Hairy J Blige (Pop Twinette)
Hellenore (Resonance FM)
Lizatron (Dark Star)

Performances:
Daniella Valz Gen
Jemima Burrill
Kate Mahony
lili Spain
Silvia Ziranek

All proceeds will be donated to Eaves, a charity which helps women in vulnerable situations and campaigns for a society in which all women live free from violence, exploitation, objectification and discrimination.

Voluntary donations will gratefully accepted on the night or you can visit our justgiving web page to make a donation any time:http://www.justgiving.com/Jemma-Cullen1

You can find out more about the charity here:
www.eavesforwomen.org.uk

Keith Seatman"s Test Transmission Archive Reel 16

Test Transmission Archive Reel 16 by Keith Seatman on Mixcloud

Been a tad slow with getting this together and do hope to get another one done by the spring. This time round we have Pink Floyd, Dolly Dolly, Gong, Cabaret Voltaire, Add N to X, Fuck Buttons, Bernard Cribbins, Spacedog/Belbury Poly, Jaco Gardner and way to many more to list here. Hope you enjoy this, TA TA.

NTS Radio Alien Jams Sunday 23rd Feb

Just a reminder that on Sunday (23rd Feb) I will be playing some tunes on NTS Radio Alien Jams at 5pm. I don't get out much, so it will be a nice day out for me. 

Its a Load of Old Tat (but we do love that old tat)

Last year I was wandering around that emporium of useless Tat  Hawkin's Bazaar with my Daughter and her friend. For some reason at the time the two of them had decided that everything within Hawkin's was great and cool and was needed right now "please please"

When we did manage to get out of the shop I started to drift back in my mind to days gone by when a 10 year old me living in the city of Terminal Boredom got quite obsessed with some similar tat. This similar tat could be found within the pages of Marvel and DC comics. Yes for 45 cents (it was ads from the USA) I would learn to Hypnotize people, I could go into school and hypnotise my Teachers and friends into giving me money and good grades. Or I could buy some Xray glasses and never ever have to use a Hospital Xray Dept in my life because for $1.00 I had my own, and I would charge people for my Xray service. If I bought a Money Maker I could spend the summer break just making my own money, it was going to be that simple, I would be rich. Or maybe I should send of for an 8 ft Balloon because that would have just been really handy. I have now excepted that all this old tat was really needed, we needed it because It helped us kill 6 weeks in the summer. 6 weeks spent with your friends discussing what we were going to do with Giant Balloons Hypno Coins, becoming a Kung Fu master in a few days and other such things. Things which we were never really ever going to buy. Now I just have a loft full of different needy tat, Records/Cds, old laptops/computers, Synths/Keyboards, piles of old comics and books, things that will come in handy one day because "I just might need them". I never did order nothing from these ads but after much pestering I did get a Gat Gun and spent the rest of the summer in the Garden shooting at tin cans and some old Airfix Models (I should have kept them) These ad pages came from one of my many old copies of Tomb of Dracula.

Sun in her hand an Audio Doodle

A new tune, something thats in progress. Not a track of the next album (Album out in Spring) just some audio doodling that I have been working on. But just to confuse the matter this is the inside artwork for the next album.

Sonic Wonderland/Trevor Cox

Heard Trevor Cox on 6 Music today talking about his book Sonic Wonderland. Trevor is professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford and president of the Institute of Acoustics. In Sonic Wonderland, Trevor visits sewers, caves, tidal bores, burial mounds, sand dunes, concert halls. Creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, squeaking beaches, groaning waterwheels, frogs that croak in Mexican waves and Mayan pyramids that produce echoes that chirp like a bird. Trevor explores how sound is made and altered by the environment, and how we hear, perceive and react to sounds, and how sound and acoustics have inspired musicians, artists and writers. Trevor Cox will be talking about Sonic Wonderland at Rough Trade East at 7pm on Thurs 6th Feb.

Alien Jams NTS Radio

I am very pleased to have been asked to pop in and play some records on Alien Jams NTS Radio at 5pm on Sunday 23rd Feb. NTS Radio is a London-based independent radio station broadcasting live and worldwide from their base in Gillet Square Dalston London. Alien Jams is presented by Chloe Frieda every Sunday from 5-6pm focusing on electronic music throughout history, from early electronics to present day artists. So I am now going to spend the next few weeks trying to make a list of some records to play on the program. To be honest I did make a list and there was about 30 tunes on it, so def time to chop that list right the way down. Looking forward to all this very much.

Gaslight Troubadours Clockwork Curiosities

Very much enjoying The Gaslight Troubadours debt album Clockwork Curiosities.  

The Gaslight Troubadours are Professor Singleton Purblind and Lon Lippincott; a modern day Burke and Hare of sample reconstruction. I 1st became aware of these chaps when a friend of mine heard them being played on The Late Junction. Not long after that I heard the track A Three Pipe Problem (full of old foggy london town Holmes and Watson Vampires and "read all about it orrible murder") played on The Freak Zone. As it states on the ECC records website  It’s ‘Carry On Screaming’ starring Vivian Stanshall, with a dose of The League Of Gentlemen thrown in for good measure. Mock horror with glitchy beats could be one, slightly loose description. If you like the idea of a Victorian DJ Shadow in foggy London equipped with top hat cape and cane with Spring Heeled Jack and Varney the Vampire lurking just round the cobbled street corner then The Gaslight Troubadours are def for you.

Seasons Greetings to you all

I have had a busy old year, what with one thing or another, so a big thank you

to everyone who bought played and reviewed my album Boxes Windows and Secret Hidey Holes.  Also thanks for the support and emails and comments with regards to the album and Mixcloud etc. Have a great break and holiday. See you all again in the New Year

Dolly Dolly Antimacassar

The rather great smashing and super Dolly Dolly album Antimacassar is available from Exotic Pylon as a limited edition digipak CD or digital download. I suggest you go here to get a copy. Also here is some info from Exotic Pylon. TATA.

Exotic Pylon is overwhelmingly thrilled to present something very different and very special – the long-awaited debut album from a true original: Antimacassar by Dolly Dolly. 

Dolly (sometimes known as David Yates) is a Berkshire-based spoken-word artist, poet, events curator, radio playwright and belongs in the lineage of British surrealists. Antimacassar’s twisted insights were created via a process of cut-ups, automatic writing, and dream diaries channelling the skewed atmospherics of such luminaries as David Gascoyne and Roland Penrose after a collision with the Beats. At turns playful, darkly whimsical, disorientating and sharp Dolly Dolly’s words and voices destabilise familiar scenes into overcast alien shapes. Imagine if Tom Baker’s Tardis became a Stone Tape jukebox… 

Aiding and abetting Dolly on this maiden voyage are some of the finest artists from the UK underground: Ekoplekz, Position Normal, Moon Wiring Club, Regal Worm (an offshoot of I Monster), Time Attendant, Steve Christie and Language, Timothy! 

Shindig Spacerock

Have pre-ordered this from Shindig Magazine. Due out on Jan 16th, seems to be packed full of goodies Louis and Bebe Barron’s FORBIDDEN PLANET, JOE MEEK THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, PINK FLOYD HAWKWIND. GONG SILVER APPLES FIFTY FOOT HOSE, BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP  AMON DÜÜL II, NEU and ASH RA TEMPEL CHROME HERE AND NOW OZRIC TENTACLES SPACEMEN 3 LOOP SUN RA ASTRA THE HEADS and WHITE HILLS. Thats gonna be a lot of reading. Its only £6.50 available from here

Test Transmission Archive Reel 15 Garden of Earthly Delights Mix 8/11/13

Test Transmission Archive Reel 15 (Garden of Earthly Delights Mix) by Keith Seatman on Mixcloud

Here is my final mix of the year. Which was recorded for the Head Gardener at The Garden of Earthly Delights CRMK Radio. On this end of year mix we have music from Carl Orff, John Foxx & The Belbury Circle, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland, Anne Briggs, The Greg Foat Group, Spectrum and much much more.