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Richard Rees-Jones

@viennesewaltz.bsky.social

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Occasional music blogger. Interested in prog rock, folk rock, free jazz & improv, noise, experimental & avant-garde classical. Author of 'Peter Hammill On Track: Every Album, Every Song' (Sonicbond, 2022) Substack: viennesewaltz.substack.com

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Peter! One can but hope (my rates are very reasonable...) Glad you enjoyed the book.

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I never really got into Bleed but I'm blasting Three now and it's sounding incredible, especially Bloom. Haven't listened to Travel for ages, I'll be cueing up that one next.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 1d

New Necks album is really hitting the spot today. Four long tracks, all of them keepers but this one is the highlight for me.

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 1d

Wordle 1,577 1/6

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(total fluke, never happened to me before and probably never will again. I pick a different starter word every day.)

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 6d

New Substack post: in the footsteps of Tony Harrison.

Facing north: in the footsteps of Tony Harrison

I was saddened to hear of the recent death of the English poet Tony Harrison. Harrison spoke to me more clearly than any other poet I’ve read. His peerless command of rhyme and rhythm, his lyrical, elegiac tone and his blend of vernacular language and classical erudition all combined to produce a body of work that I found uniquely affecting and readable. But I’m no literary critic, and I don’t intend to try and analyse Harrison’s poetry in any depth. Instead, I wanted to set down a few personal reflections on the man and his work.

viennesewaltz.substack.com

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 7d

Good luck if you get as far as Gravity's Rainbow, which is where I started and which I found totally unreadable, putting me off everything else. The new PTA film might provide an alternative way in...

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 7d

Google Lens suggests it could be a western conifer seed bug. If so, its name is longer than the thing itself.

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 9d

Hi Mike, the label is sold out but the band still have some copies for sale:

Did You Hear The Music, by Cultural Amnesia

8 track album

culturalamnesia.bandcamp.com

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 9d

#cassunday Cultural Amnesia, Did You Hear The Music (2025) – great, quirky post-punk electronic songs. Limited run of 100 copies, only a few left so don't sleep if you want one of these.

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 10d

More typos, and – for good measure – one in the very first word of the (excellent) book that comes with the box set.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 10d

So many inexcusable typos and howlers on the outer box of the new Peter Hammill box set. Clearly this wasn't checked by a fan (i.e. me) or they would never have slipped through. These detract from an otherwise superb package. Universal (or PH himself!) should employ me as a proof-reader next time.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 10d

And for good measure, here's another one in the very first word of the (excellent) book that comes with the box set:

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 10d

More typos

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

Another extraordinary concert tonight by Peter Hammill at the Royal Festival Hall. Such riveting power, passion and intensity.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

Turn around from the Harrison family grave and you'll see the city of Leeds in the distance. "Find the beef, the beer, the bread, then look behind."

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

No graffiti on the Harrison family grave, but there was on some other graves.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

Turn around from the grave and you see the city of Leeds. "Find the beef, the beer, the bread, then look behind."

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

I couldn't find Byron the tanner, but I found Wordsworth who built church organs.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

Quite moving to find a space on one side of the grave for his 'chiselled epitaph' to be added.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

Went on a pilgrimage to Holbeck cemetery in Beeston, Leeds, to find Tony Harrison's family grave as mentioned in 'v.' He was right – I did have to search quite hard. But I found it.

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Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

I couldn't find Byron the tanner, but I did find Wordsworth who built church organs.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 12d

Very moving to find a space on one side of the grave for his 'chiselled epitaph' to be added.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 13d

My first Peter Hammill concert in eight years tonight in Manchester. He's still as brave, gripping and emotionally acute as ever. Highlights were The Siren Song, The Lie and a desolate A Way Out.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 16d

"This graveyard on the brink of Beeston Hill’s/the place I may well rest if there's a spot/under the rose roots and the daffodils/by which dad dignified the family plot." I hope he makes it there, and that I make a pilgrimage there one day.

Richard Rees-Jones @viennesewaltz.bsky.social · 16d

Despite not having a Yorkshire accent, a few years ago I recorded myself reading Tony Harrison's 'v.'

Tony Harrison – v.

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