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spaceshipmark.bsky.social
Musician, educator, filmmaker. Landscape drones and scrapes. Old stones. Children's music workshops with the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra. Deep in the valley, Todmorden. #MDANT https://linktr.ee/spaceship_mark
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The PPYO on the radio…

Today’ work: “Using instruments similar to those that may have been used in the stone age (PVC 'bone' flutes, rattles, lithophone, drums, claves, horn). We created an impression of how music may have sounded at a solstice ritual back in Neolithic times.” backupdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/stone-...

Recent aquisitions from @colossivepress.bsky.social @darkandgolden.bsky.social @spaceshipmark.bsky.social

Probably late to the party (by 52 years!) but I really enjoyed this… archive.org/details/fant...

Excited to be playing at Bishops’ House in Sheffield on 21st March! wegottickets.com/event/640320/

Menhir de Kerangosquer. “It is known as La Pierre du Coq and it is claimed that at Easter and Christmas a cock which guards a great treasure will fly away. Should it land on one’s shoulder it signifies an invitation to take the gold.” #standingstonesunday

I’m playing in Sheffield in March! Tickets in the thread…

Looking forward to reading and listening to this tonight. ‘Folklore, Facts and Fables 4: Stone Circles by @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Bandcamp bit.ly/4hARjYz #music #zine

If you've ever wondered why you feel as if you've been stalked by the same supermarket building all your life (akin to that "Black Tower" short film which was always on Channel 4) this provides you with the answers. There's a little bit of South Woodham Ferrers everywhere. youtu.be/0NHv6owsCvw?...

Low stock warning on all of these! I will restock at some point but I need to do some music rather than burning, sticking, stapling and trimming! Thanks so much to everyone who’s bought them so far! www.forged-river.com #prehistory #megalithic #standingstone #stonehenge #archaeology

🚨The Herbert from Hob's Barrow plushie is now available!🚨 This is your chance to have your very own cuddly/cursed Herbert staring at you from your bedside! Available via Makeship until February 26th! www.makeship.com/products/her... Pet him if you dare...

Stone Club @thesociallondon.bsky.social with @petefowlerart.bsky.social a reading from @olismithtravel.bsky.social a talk from Alex Murdin & Sophie Pierce on their new book Rock Idols, artist @lornarees.bsky.social & Stone Report film from @spaceshipmark.bsky.social stoneclub.rocks/events/the-s...

Up on the hill…

Anyone know what tape this is? Can’t find the box and it has no artist/title on it. Sort of guitar(?) Over modulated drones, it’s pretty good. Someone on here must know!

I made the music on this album years ago and finally released it back in 2020. It didn’t sell many copies, maybe I’d missed the boat for albums about nuclear bunkers or something… Anyway, I think it’s quite haunting and weird and also now only five pounds. spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/a-hole...

Snake Pass is in the news… youtu.be/6QrzIgPRq44?...

Thank you everyone who’s ordered the Stone Circles zine/cd so far! I’ve got a sore arm from trimming the edges and still have more to make (as well as restocks for the others)! Www.forged-river.com #standingstonesunday #megalithic #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology

I always knew that the Sutton Hoo helmet reminded me of someone

🌻 COVER REVEAL 🌻 SO excited to share the gorgeous cover for RAGWORT by @samkhorton.bsky.social, sequel to his stunning 2024 debut, GORSE! Nancy's story continues this autumn... RAGWORTH publishes 9 Oct 2025 from @solarisbooks.bsky.social. Art/cover design by the hugely talented Veronica Park.

Available to preorder today at www.forged-river.com #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology #folklore @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @weirdwalk.bsky.social

Hey Darren, I can’t afford all your cute paintings of airport vehicles, why don’t you just put them together in a zine for, say, five pounds? Ok darrenhaymanart.com

Coming soon… eleven prehistoric sites, seventeen illustrations, one thirty-one minute piece of music. This might be the last one for a little while as I’ve a lot coming up… #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #archaeology #standingstonesunday

Epic! ‘Stone Report: Volume One’ by @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Bandcamp bit.ly/4jiH1xH #music #zine

The children’s orchestra I lead have some new sounds up… The title was their idea (well, I couldn’t choose between their ideas). backupdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/noisye...

Like all of #HebdenBridge and #Todmorden we're relieved that the A646 reopens tomorrow, its infamous hole having been filled. We're not the only business to have taken a financial hit over the festive season and we're open 12–11 pm tomorrow if you're celebrating.

In #JapaneseFolklore kawauso are river otters, and like many other animals it is believed that once they reach old age they can develop supernatural powers and become #yokai. They are renowned shape-shifters and can also accurately mimic sounds. They use this ability to play... #WyrdWednesday 1/3

Currently listening to ‘Stone Report: Volume One’ by @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Bandcamp bit.ly/4jiH1xH #music

Writing for the next issue today…

Photograph of the Druidic stone circle at Penmaenmawr, near Conwy, North Wales, by Godfrey Bingley, 1896

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

Some of Somerset’s finest old stones 🪨✨

Playing a solo show at part of this year’s edition of Electric Spring Festival with the lovely The Silver Field. Join us in Huddersfield!

bonfirehill.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

All three issues of Folk, Facts and Fables are now available! (And more to come…) A series of zines, each with an accompanying album of music. spaceship.bandcamp.com #folklore #archaeology #seabirds #shapeshifters

I think I like this version of that Salisbury place best...

Enjoyed watching this from a good while back. Once old Francis stops going on about the things he’s personally discovered there’s some good stuff… youtube.com/playlist?lis... @stoneclub.bsky.social

Had a dream I was in a kind of outdoor shop in Canada. They had a range of knives, from a small vegetable knife size to, essentially, swords. All of them were labelled ‘bear killing knife’. I asked the assistant why there was such a range of sizes and he said: ‘Well… it depends on the bear…’

Thanks for mentioning the Folklore, Facts and Fables series! Hope you’re enjoying them…