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 Ley of the Land

Wyrd Britain is a blog about stories, about the fictions we create around this odd little country some of us call home.  Stories about the thin places and the lost places, about stone circles and ancient woodlands, about rabbit holes and hills of dreams, about time travellers, triffids, suddenly appearing shopkeepers and whatever it was that Charlie said.

So, when we decided to launch a label we wanted to release music that also told stories,  music with a narrative and a sense of the mysterious that would be at home within the occult territories of a stranger Britain.

The British Space Group is the most recent project of Welsh musician Ian Holloway and this, his third under that name, follows on from the acclaimed 'Eyes Turned Skyward' and the radiophonic miniatures of 'Phantasmagoria'.  This latest album continues the hauntologically inclined electronica of those albums but combines it with the dark, post-industrial ambience of the albums he's released under his own name over the last two decades on labels such as Quiet World.

'The Ley of the Land' tells a subtle story; one of dark nights and disembodied voices.  It tells of a haunted moment and gives a time stretched glimpse behind the curtain into an enigmatic and uneasy other here.

'The Ley of the Land' 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