Unsleeping Eyes: 2015

Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Star Wars Postcards

I made some postcards using the matte paintings from the original trilogy.

Thursday, 24 December 2015

Best of 2015

Films:

-The Duke of Burgundy

-Black Mass

-Night Will Fall (special screening at the Tyneside Cinema for Holocaust Memorial Day)

-Ex Machina

-Macbeth

-Star Wars: The Force Awakens

-Inherent Vice

Music:

-Inventions: Maze of Woods

-Jeff Beck: Live+

-Ghost Harmonic: Codex

-Zombi: Shape Shift

-Jeff Bridges: Sleeping Tapes

-Chelsea Wolfe: Abyss

Coming in 2016:

-The Revenant

Sunday, 1 November 2015

Hallowe'en 2015: Kane from Alien

In honour of Hallowe'en 2015, my band 7thSun has recorded a cover of Goblin's 'Suspiria', the theme from Dario Argento's film of the same name. You can listen to it on SoundCloud or download it from Dropbox.

'The Remains'

The new 7thSun E.P. 'The Remains' is now available for free download on the 7thSun website.

7thSun - The Remains
01. Tommysong
02. The Kindness of Women
03. Windmills Turn Dusk
04. Home Movies.

Track 03 was written by Prussian Intervals. All other tracks written by 7thSun.

For full details, please visit www.7thsun.co.uk/

Saturday, 10 October 2015

Budapest Diary, 27/09/2015 - 02/10/2015

View of Buda and Pest from the Citadella.

Sunday

Arrived at Continental Hotel Zara and explored Pest.

Dined in Hungarian restaurant.

Ceiling of St. Stephen's Basilica.

Monday

Visited Great Synagogue.

Walked to St. Stephen’s Basilica and climbed stairs to 300-foot dome viewing platform.

Crossed Chain Bridge and climbed hill to Buda Castle. Visited Royal Palace, Mátyás Church, Fishermen’s Bastion, market and Labyrinth under Castle.

Dined in Hungarian restaurant.

Parliament, Pest.

Tuesday

Visited Parliament in Pest.

Crossed bridge to Margaret Island, saw Franciscan church ruins, Water Tower, Japanese Garden.

Had massages at hotel and dined at Monk’s Bistrot by Elizabeth Bridge.

House of Terror.

Wednesday

Walked to Opera on Andrássy Street then explored House of Terror.

Had meal at Tokio and viewed Chain Bridge and Basilica lit up at night.

Liberation Monument.

Thursday

Took bus past Heroes’ Square to Buda Castle and visited Budapest History Museum, which includes medieval church ruins.

Took bus to Citadellla and Liberation Monument.

Took bus to Central Market Hall.

Dined at Kollázs then had cocktails in hotel bar.

Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Segedunum

Wallsend, Tyneside, marks the end of Hadrian's Wall and was also the location of the Ancient Roman fort Segedunum.

The British Museum exhibition 'Roman Empire: Power and People' is currently open to visitors until Sunday 13th September. Access is included in the admission price of £5.95.

The fort ruins from the viewing tower

Preserved clothing from Roman Egypt

The Segedunum museum

Statue of a woman clutching the bust of her dead husband

Replica of a skull damaged during combat

Photography at the Black Gate and Castle Keep

I recently took some photographs for Old Newcastle at the Black Gate and Castle Keep. Both sites are open to visitors, offering a range of activities for all ages.

View from the top of the Castle Keep

The Black Gate, side view

Volunteer dressed as a knight in the Great Hall

Crossbow in the Castle Keep museum

Archery lessons in the Great Hall

The new lift shaft on the side of the Black Gate

Plague Doctor

Thursday, 27 August 2015

7thSun: Resignation (Live)

Recorded at The Central last week.

Sunday, 23 August 2015

7thSun Live at The Central, Gateshead, 20/08/2015

Set list:

01. 2015 Intro
02. Into the Starscape
03. Resignation
04. China Girl [Iggy Pop/David Bowie]
05. Mandragora
06. Tommysong, Part 2.

Wednesday, 5 August 2015

7thSun Live 2015

Sunday, 5 July 2015

Prussian Intervals and Antivillain

The first Prussian Intervals album is available now on Washy Tapes.

http://www.washytapes.com/releases/wsh005/

Prussian Intervals: Pretext for a Bugbear
D**D | DAWN REGISTER | TUNE ME OUT | THE SHORELINE THERE | WELTERWEIGHT | DISCRETION VESSEL | CORIA 01 | YOU ON A CLOUDY DAY | PEBBLEDASH DUB | THE WEARY TRICKSTER

Some of these pieces have been available on SoundCloud for some time, but they sound clearer here. The sequencing also suits the tracks very well. The album is a unique mix of treated trumpet, bass and synth.
You can hear the whole album on SoundCloud or buy it on cassette.
https://soundcloud.com/prussian-intervals

The first album from Antivillain has also been released.

http://www.washytapes.com/releases/wsh006/

NIN: Everything Is Not OK

For the launch of Apple Music, Trent Reznor has released instrumentals and outtakes from 1999's 'The Fragile' and instrumentals from 2005's 'With Teeth'. These releases are exclusive to Apple Music.