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Gareth E. Rees

@garetherees.bsky.social

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Guitar/vocals in psych-noise band, Black Arches. Author of books incl. Unofficial Britain, Car Park Life, Sunken Lands, Marshland & more. Psychogeography. Mythology. Ecology http://www.unofficialbritain.com/about-us/

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Nov 12

Been an influx of new people here, so by way of (re)introduction, I wrote some books about place, memory and mythology, pictured below. Fiction, non-fiction and the zone in between. I have since moved on to making music and writing lyrics. Eventually, there will be silence.

Pile of books: marshland, Terminal Zones, car park life, the stone tide, Unofficial Britain, Sunken Lands.

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 21d

I'm relatively local to Dungeness - the power station shimmers on the skyline as I look east from Hastings. (I visted Sizewell a few years back but the tea room was shut that day, alas, think it was the covid era).

Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 21d

New arrival by @drtombolton.bsky.social via @strangeattractor.bsky.social

Tom Bolton Atomic Albion journeys around Britain's Nuclear Power stations - cover showing shots of power stations in blue coloring

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Sep 1

Cheers!

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · Sep 1

Here's the sound from canal level, under the road almost 50 years later.

Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · May 19

We haven't had a #BrutalMonday start to the week for a while. Here goes...

Episode 72 - The tunnel, the towpath and the window under Spaghetti Junction (24mins)

A hidden space next to the canal under the motorway. Bright sunshine leaks through windows in the road.

🛣️ bit.ly/LenSpaG

under the motorway next to a canal on a bright June day. no one else here in this unusual place. towpath is clean. water looks less so. grafitti on the concrete legs holding up the road.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · Sep 1

Archive footage of Spaghetti Junction, the day before it opened in 1972. The reviewer was a bit worried about the tight turns.

1972: Welcome to SPAGHETTI JUNCTION | Wheelbase | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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mapplebeck.bsky.social @mapplebeck.bsky.social · Sep 1

Cracking Andrew Weatherall soundtrack. Preferably immerse yourself whilst reading the excellent @garetherees.bsky.social 'Marshland', exploring the wonders of #Walthamstow marshes and beyond. To enter this wonderland you must shrink yourself at the 5ft bridge...

www.mixcloud.com/Hackneymarsh...

Marshland: The Andrew Weatherall Mix

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · Aug 28

Monstrosities Mon Amour is on a summer break, but will be back soon. In the meantime I can’t believe there’s already nine episodes! What a lot of cheery chat about unloved things johngrindrod.substack.com/podcast

Monstrosities Mon Amour | John Grindrod | Substack

In Monstrosities Mon Amour we celebrate places and things that have been unfairly monstered in popular opinion. Host John Grindrod will be your excitable guide to a world beyond the lazy stereotypes o...

johngrindrod.substack.com

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Aug 11

This Saturday catch Black Arches doing our weird thing with Sexton Ming at our first ever London show, supporting Japanese psych band Quajaku at the Strongroom in Shoreditch. Tickets: www.gigantic.com/other-side-p...

Shot of black arches band in black and white on either side of poster for Qujaku live at the strongroom bar, 16 aug from 7.45pm.

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Mark's Music @marksmusic1977.bsky.social · Aug 1

#NewMusic2025
Black Arches & Sexton Ming - Folly
@brucegeob.bsky.social @paulakeenan.bsky.social @coinneachrooney.bsky.social

Black Arches with Sexton Ming - Folly, by Black Arches

7 track album

blackarches.bandcamp.com

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Jul 29

Let's DM later in the week to arrange a place/time...

Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Jul 28

Nothing I know of but I'm a bit out of the loop these days. It is carnival week from sat onwards, though. Can meet for a drink. Possibly Sunday afternoon or mon/Tues evening.

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Mark Chickenf1sh @chickenf1sh.bsky.social · Jul 23

The 'ship goo' story immediately reminded me of "We Are The Disease" from @garetherees.bsky.social "Terminal Zones"
www.jalopnik.com/1906461/grea...

Great Lakes Ship Goo Is Actually An Undiscovered Life Form - Jalopnik

Researchers who docked a vessel for an "unanticipated repair" last September found the cause of the problem wasn't just unanticipated, it was downright bizarre.

www.jalopnik.com

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JazzIan @jazzian.bsky.social · Jul 5

Just delivered from Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social @garetherees.bsky.social #adamscovell

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Jun 26

I contributed guitar and vocals to some of the tracks on this ace album blending raucous postpunk with motorik psych jams and weird electronic detours elasticstage.com/blackadastra

Black Adastra @blackadastra.bsky.social · Jun 26

Things that never happened is available today from the Elastic Stage website

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Jun 26

Nice one! Is there a link to the elastic stage page I can share?

Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Jun 15

Short snippet of yesterday's noisy shenanigans - Black Arches with Sexton Ming at Tough Love records in St Leonards

Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Jun 13

Getting all the right notes in the wrong order tomorrow afternoon at Tough Love record shop in St Leonards.

Black Arches with Sexton Ming live at Tough Love Bohemia Rd St Leonards 3pm Saturday 14th June. With a black and white photo of the band looking grizzled in am alleyway.

Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · Jun 13

@lazaruscorporation.co.uk Hi Paul - details of tomorrow afternoon's gig (if you happen to be free)

Black arches live at Tough Love record shop 3pm Bohemia Rd St Leonards

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Polypores @polypores.bsky.social · May 9

Whorl is out now via @crackedankles.bsky.social ! Check out the animated music video by Yin Wrong here: youtu.be/a29YKIuIUxY?...

Polypores - Whorl

YouTube video by Polypores HQ

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · May 9

"On Saturday he collected one beetle wing, one bee thorax, one fly femur, a wasp's head and a Daddy long-legs leg...."

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · May 9

Could be a Frankenstein horror reboot of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · May 9

The bone collector caterpillar 'disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so it can live among spiders and poach their prey'. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

This camouflaged critter wears severed insect body parts like a coat

A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · May 8

"Like trauma regression therapy carried out in the back room of a jazz club" - great review by @spennyt.bsky.social of Black Arches with Sexton Ming's album via @rocketrecordings.bsky.social in the latest issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

Cover of The Wire music magazine with photo of Cosey Fanni Tutti

Review copy- next up is a collaboration between psychedelic experimentalists Black Arches and poet/artist Sexton Ming.... opener Salty Sultan pairs languorous psychedelic noodle with Ming's surrealist utterances about bottled seawater and camels frying whole Jerrybagging and Bin Day become increasingly feverish, spitting out globules of abstract and hazy imagery. It's a perfect combination, the poet's briny abstractions fizzing across the Hastings outfit's psychedelic slow roll.

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · May 8

Coincidentally, i just finished reading it the other day - really enjoyed it, Paul!

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Jason Lee @jasonlee.ie · May 6

…hold on a minute…

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