Holy McGrail

Collecting Earthquakes MP3s

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Collecting Earthquakes is now available to download from the Head Heritage Digital Store for £6.99

Black Sheep & other activities

Mon, 04 May 2009 22:00:00 +0000

So over the last few months I've been playing in Julian Cope's "heathen resistance" ensemble, BLACK SHEEP. Several sessions at State of Art Studios in Bristol have brought forth a double LP and double CD entitled KISS MY SWEET APOCALYPSE. We currently expect these to be on general release in May/June 2009 via Invada Records.

I'm also operating in a Black Sheep offshoot group - Black Sheep Electronic Division - that's me and Fat Paul with some exsoteric [sic] guest vocalists declaiming wisdom over rudimentary electronic backdrops. We've got a 10" in the works that should be out mid to late Summer.

Black Sheep recently completed a session for BBC 6 Music's Freak Zone, 2 tracks from which are available to hear for a limited time on the BBC iPlayer.

Still working on Collecting Earthquakes II in any spare moments and inching forward on some Slomo merchandise - which we're aiming to get on sale before we regroup to consider a 3rd album.

Store Update

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0000

We now have copies of Slomo's THE BOG for sale in the STORE.

Raw Power Suite/The Bog

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Wotcha,

RAW POWER SUITE wins the accolade of being Head Heritage Album of the Month for November 2008.

Slomo's almost mythical THE BOG album is currently making something of a perambulation around various customs stops of the world, and should be with us at some point this week. It will be available immediately but I'm loathe to take orders until we actually have physical product in hand.

HMCG

Padma EP

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Ello,

Out this week is Padma's "Song For An Entryphone EP". All three tracks were recorded on my watch and I'm happy that we got to push the boat out a little on "Waiting For Dolma", here included in sumptuously extended, remixed form. Also, my missus sings the hopscotch vocal on Padma's ragged back-porch style cover of Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes".

It's a digital EP currently only available through the Just Music Digital Store, though it should also be available on iTunes et al within the coming weeks.

Both Slomo and Tomb Zero have been delayed a little, though I'm still hoping for an October release for both.

And COLLECTING EARTHQUAKES II is coming along nicely.

HMCG

New Releases

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Hello, I've been busy having children but now the latest one has clocked up his first year, I figured it was time for an update:

SLOMO - the new Slomo album THE BOG is finished and now in the quintessentially slomo design phase. Important Records will be releasing THE BOG at some point over the summer ... June/July/August 08 if all goes to plan.

THE BOG features a guest appearance from Julian Cope, who recites a short poem written especially for the album.

PADMA - Padma's debut album HERE is released via Just Music in June 08. I produced the album and played the odd thing here and there. It bears little resemblance to any other recordings I've been involved in - essentially being an acoustic-based singer/songwriter album - but I did get to play the shruti and apply some psychedelic textures. Most importantly, underneath my applications are a big bunch of smart songs sung by an incredible voice. Check out his site here.

CADAVEROUS CONDITION have released a remix album DESTROYING THE NIGHT SKY. I contributed the track "Death Warmed Up", which is an interpretation of the outrageously jolly "Destroy Your Life" as imagined from the inside of a retort chamber. The album features remixes by Nurse With Wound, Thighpaulsandra, Nocturnal Emissions, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles + loads more. I have a few copies for sale in the STORE.

Finally, at some point this summer I will be releasing the incredible debut album by TOMB ZERO. 10 years in the making, this is very much an album of the North, and will appeal to quaffers of krautockers such as Witthuser & Westrupp, Popol Vuh, Sergius Golowin and Walter Wegmüller, as well those hip to the gleaming contemporary sounds of Werkraum, Sturmpercht, In Gowan Ring etc. etc. etc. Cosmic folk music to soundtrack significant celestial events in Northern skies.

Burning Holy Rome

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:00:00 +0000

A semi-official bootleg on Southern Cross ... this 47 minute disc contains a soundboard recording of my live set from ROME WASN'T BURNED IN A DAY in October 2003 plus other recordings from around the same time sequenced into one massive burnout. Available now from the STORE page at £9.99.

Update

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:00:00 +0000

Just received copies of the BURNING HOLY ROME bootleg on Southern Cross ... it's my live set from ROME WASN'T BURNED IN A DAY in October 2003. CDR limited to 99 copies, available now from the STORE page.

In other news, Slomo's next album THE BOG is coming along nicely (if slowly). We're looking at a late Spring/Summer release on Important Records. Important are also putting out an expanded version of SMASHED AMPS & SUNN GUITARS around the same time.

Also, I've been producing HERE, the debut album from singer/songwriter-type Padma ... its in the mixing stage now but a release date is as yet unknown.

Rock-a-rolla Magazine

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:00:00 +0000

I've been interviewed in the current issue of Rock-A-Rolla Magazine, talking about my stuff, Slomo, woods and pub toilets (unless of course, they edited any of that stuff out - I haven't seen a copy yet).

More reviews

Wed, 17 May 2006 22:00:00 +0000

Both 'Collecting Earthquakes' and Slomo's 'The Creep' have been reviewed at Musiquemachine.com

Collecting Earthquakes
The Creep