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Gareth E. Rees
@garetherees.bsky.social
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Guitar/vocals in psych-noise band, Black Arches. Author of Unofficial Britain, Car Park Life, Sunken Lands, Marshland & more. Psychogeography. Mythology. Ecology https://www.instagram.com/black_arches_hastings
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This one had a pool table!
Pool table in restored gun battery
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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28 days later on the Forth Road Bridge....
Forth road bridge empty but for one female figure in the distance Forth bridge viewed in distance from empty forth road bridge Selfie of Gareth Rees on cycle path on empty bridge Faded image of pedestrian footway symbol on ragged looking road surface
December 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The crossing.
Sideways view of Queensferry crossing reflected in the forth of Forth, Edinburgh, Scotland
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Spent the past few nights in a pre-WWI gun battery on the Firth of Forth trove.scot share.google/vr3egGRKvcjD...
Concrete WW1 gun battery Close up of former gun placement area Downstairs exterior of the bunker Bedroom in the interior where the shells used to be stored
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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New Weird Britain: 2025 in review @thequietus.com features Black Arches with Sexton Ming's album 'Folly' thequietus.com/tq-charts/co...
The Quietus - new weird Britain 2025 in review by Noel Gardner Black Arches Sexton Ming Folly, "this seven song LP by Sussex psych unit Black Arches with Kent poet Sexton Ming has thr undiluted New Weird Britain juice for sure, the product of a gang of outsiders in a smallish town (Hastings) hitting on something that slaps even if you're not in their gang."
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Occult connections in North Queensferry
Queensferry crossing illuminated at night between trees Eye of horus on a stone in the grass
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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A herd of sauropods migrates south across the firth.
View of forth bridge looking like a series of red steel dinosaurs
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Life beneath the bridge.
Narrow backlane with streetlamp beneath brick pillar holding up Forth Bridge Cottage with picket fence beneath forth bridge Bus stop with Forth bridge directly behind it Modern bungalow and row of victorian cottages beneath bridge
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Been getting up close and personal with this bridge.
Forth bridge, North Queensferry Picnic bench beneath the forth railway bridge Close up of red struts with maintenance vehicles beneath Close up shot of Forth bridge from beneath, red metal stretching towards stone
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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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
September 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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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.
August 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Short snippet of yesterday's noisy shenanigans - Black Arches with Sexton Ming at Tough Love records in St Leonards
June 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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.
June 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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@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
June 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"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.
May 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The sadness in its eyes...
Sad looking dog puppet/effigy at a May Day Jack in the Green parade
May 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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The couples you meet on the street.
Discarded sun costume and gull costume with wellies by a wall Couple in green clothes and flowers with pink shoes/tights
May 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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A few shots of our townsfolk from yesterday's Jack-in-the-Green shenanigans (Hastings edition).
Woman pained green in a flowery bonnet, attended by other green women festooned in garlands of flowers White bearded man in colorful garb in a may day parade A woman with a staff accompanies a seated mask figure in a foliage-enhanced mobility scooter of some kind Knight with flag on a cloth horse
May 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Sexton Ming (masked) and me (knob twiddling) on stage - come and check us out in our first ever Black Arches London gig in August, supporting the Japanese heavy psych band QUJAKU www.gigantic.com/other-side-p...
Distorted photo of masked man with t-shirt that reads A Schizophrenic is Talking, Listen and Learn. Gareth Rees crouching over guitar pedals and drum machine on stage lit in red.
May 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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I'm spinning a few of my favourite Fall tracks at this tomorrow night.
MES tribute night - Friday 25th April 6-10pm Dayglo Studios Silchester road St Leonards
April 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Clip of Black Arches' Easter Friday live session at Wow and Flutter record shop in Hastings. Tickets for our London show in August here:
www.gigantic.com/osp-presents...
April 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The Grin of the Demented Machine God...or 'variations on a rusted winch on the beach at Dungeness'
Four manipulated images of a rusted winch in a variety of saturated hues and colours, which looks like a grinning face with massive eyes.
April 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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'Bin Day'. A slice of everyday urban psychedelia. Video by me, music by Black Arches with Sexton Ming -watch/listen here: youtu.be/OXvHXTFfI-w?...
Video still of bins ready for collection in garish pink and yellow Black bins in green and pink Text on side of bin that reads LoVe Where You Live Number 4
April 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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"According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring" - William Carlos Williams
Gnome statue in broken pieces partially submerged in shingle outside a front wall of a house. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - oil painting by Pieter Bruegel (16th Century) depicting the limbs of the partially submerged icarus splashing above water, unnoticed by a nearby farmer
April 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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"The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.”
— Henri Bergson
Manipulated shoot of a rusted mechanical winch
April 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM