The Advisory Circle's "Autumn Cycles" cloudcast

Here's a new cloudcast from The Advisory Circle to keep you going until the Radio Belbury transmitter is re-erected this December.

Annual Magic

Earth mysteries, crafts, folklore, ghosts, puppets, eccentrics, landscape archaeology and rude rhymes; The Puffin annual series commenced in 1974 with distinctive cover art by Puffin's in house illustrator Jill McDonald and illustrious guest illustrators such as Raymond Briggs, Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake, Fritz Wegner and Tove Jansson. With fiction and articles by the likes of Michael Bond, Susan Cooper, Tove Jansson, Norman Hunter, Roald Dahl and Nicholas Fisk. Contributors to number one also incuded Joyce Grenfell and Prince Charles !

I post these excerpts not simply as an exercise in nostalgia - I never owned them as a kid and I can't imagine there would have been many children who were completely absorbed by them -  it would have been a disappointing Christmas gift from a distant "auntie" perhaps, that would  slowly grab your interest later in the year. But its instructive to remember how childrens' entertainment of this period, for some at least, lent a sense of enchantment to the world, maybe educated, but also mystified, terrified and occupied. You could say that these annuals are a kind of snapshot of British childrens' fiction and television of the period too. Its a glimpse of a world before CGI, licensing, Cowell and Cbeebies drained any real magic from our childrens' culture.

Watch out those wires are live !

This weekend why not discover
your own ley lines, or... 

make some Smilers.

Dad ? What's a palimpsest ?

Did this Peter Edwards character come from Clinkskell ?

A little sinister maybe but not as much as this...

at home with the author of "Cruise of the Happy-go-Gay".

Will this be in the test sir ?

Concert of new work by Drew Mulholland

Drew Mulholland, the founder of Mount Vernon Arts Lab, is currently working as a composer in residence at Glasgow University. A concert of new pieces commissioned by the Department of Astronomy including Stella Nova inspired by the early 19th c. belief in the "Nebular Hypothesis" will be held in Glasgow in November.

Performers: Drew Mulholland, featuring the Edinburgh String Quartet, Jemma Knox (Percussion), Laura Baxter (Piano), and The Madrigirls (Choir).

This FREE concert begins at 7.30pm on 2nd November  in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.

Helping you make the right clothing decisions.

A new range of Advisory Circle garments is available now in the Ghost Box shop. The Advisory Circle mandala design by Julian House is featured on the As The Crow Flies album artwork, and  comes in white on green T shirt, yellow on black T shirt or yellow on black long short sleeve T shirt.

Study Series 07: Pye Corner Audio

18th November sees the release of  the next single in the Ghost Box Study Series, No. 7 "Autumnal Activities". This time its by special guests Pye Corner Audio with the B side in collaboration with The Advisory Circle. Until then here are some clips...

Solar Flares Burn For You - This Friday

Don't forget this Friday, 16th September, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club 8:00 til 2:00.

Psychedelic Underground Film from the BFI, live cosmic music from Raagnagrok, eye poppin' visuals from Bardo Light Show and Ghost Box DJs and films from 11:30ish on.

Tickets and more info here.

Edgar Winter Band - Frankenstein

Stick with it for the nutso synth antics towards the end. Whispering Bob says all that needs to be said.

(with thanks and greetings to Dan Tucker.)

BYC Green Man schedule

Radio Belbury Programme No. 6

Solar Flares Burn For You

The Anti-Gravity Chamber and House of Black Fuzz in association with the BFI will host an evening of phsychedelic cinema and cosmic rock titled, Solar Flares Burn For You. This happening Happening will be happening at London's Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on 16th September 2011.

There'll be film from the BFI, DJs, live music from Raagnagrok, light projections by the Bardo Lightshow and film and DJ'ing from your ever loving  Ghost Box.

Full details here. Advance tickets £7.00 available here. £10.00 on the door.

New Ghost Box T-Shirts

In the Ghost Box shop now, these two colour screen printed Julian House designs are available on white or charcoal grey shirts, in mens' and ladies' styles.

Belbury Youth Club at Green Man

The next Belbury Youth Club night will be held at the Green Man Festival, in South Wales on Friday, 19th August. We'll be teaming up with Birmingham's foremost film hounds  7" Cinema in the Cinema Tent from 7pm.

There'll be feature films, lost TV,  a new Ghost Box film by Julian House and all manner of strange clips and loops. There'll be a special live guest, Pye Corner Audio, DJ sets from Ghost Box and 7" Cinema and more visuals right into the small hours.

More information here soon. Meanwhile, according to the Green Man website, festival tickets are close to selling out.

As The Crow Flies, out now.

The new album from The Advisory Circle, As the Crow Flies, is released today. Its available on CD, Vinyl and download from the Ghost Box shop and (either today or very soon) in our usual stockists. More details here.

To mark the occasion Jon Brooks has put together this magical mix...

By the way if you order or pre-ordered a vinyl version from the Ghost Box shop you will be e-mailed a download link for your free download version. For any shop realted queries please contact helpers@greedbag.com.

Jon Brooks: Four Days Four Recordings

The ever industrious Jon Brooks (you know, him off of The Advisory Circle and Cafe Kaput) recently set himself the task of recording four tracks in four days using only a guitar, some effects pedals, an old keyboard and an ipad. The result is a beautiful pastoral, kosmische drift of sheer joy.
By the way fans of the work of Mr. Brooks should know that you can pre-order the new Advisory Circle album now, As The Crow Flies from the Ghost Box shop (release date 8th July).

Radio Belbury No. 5

Better late than never, here's Radio Belbury Programme No 5. You might be interested to know that there's now a mixcloud iphone app so you can stream the show on your enslavement podule.

Also I meant to mention that the link for Land Equivalents music is...
http://tinctureofcapsicum.bandcamp.com/

Ghost Box DJs London and Portsmouth ahoy

Two Ghost Box DJing events this month. The first will be this weekend on the 18th June at the SHNDG micro festival in Protsmouth, where your vicar will pour oil on the troubled waters of the avant garde by playing some light, melodic music. A marked and possibly ill advised contrast  to what is billed as a...

night of Noise, electronics, DIY sonic reverberation and drone. Which as its founder, creator  & custodian of all things Shndg Mr Stevens says "should make for an evening of distinctly uneasy listening."

http://www.facebook.com/Shndg

Ticket only event available from the Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Then on Sunday 26th at London's Lexington on Pentonville Rd, London Mr House and I will again be offering balm to troubled souls at The Hangover Lounge...

A soft comedown club for hard drinkers, The Hangover Lounge is the place to eat Sunday lunch, drink hair of the dog, meet like-minded souls, read the papers and make idle chit chat all to some soothing sounds. That might mean country rock or deep soul or psychedelia or soft pop or lovers rock, or anything else which sounds great and will make your head feel so much the better.

The Hangover Lounge is on each and every Sunday from 2pm. Hangover optional, dancing not required.

The sunday afternoon club for saturday night drinkers, playing a relaxed blend of reggae, soul, indie, folk, and psychedelia at a volume you can talk over.
http://www.thelexington.co.uk/event?id=853
http://hangoverlounge.blogspot.com/

As The Crow Flies

The New album from The Advisory Circle, As the Crow Flies, will be released on vinyl, CD and download on 8th July. You can pre-order it right now.

The CD version has two bonus tracks but customers who buy the vinyl LP direct from the Ghost Box shop will be able to get the full length download version for free.

Its an exploration of the passage of time and the wheel of the year. Achingly beautiful and melancholy melodic analogue electronics, the trademark Advisory Circle sound palette is broadened to include some traditional acoustic instrumentation.

One of Julian Houses strongest Ghost Box covers so far with beautiful sleeve notes courtesy of Professor Ronald Hutton author of Stations of The Sun and Triumph of the Moon.

 

Other Music stock Ghost Box again.

A quick post to all parishioners in the NY area that have been asking about availability, to say that Other Music will once again become the main US Ghost Box stockist as of next week.

Haunted House of Horror

A little TV treat for UK parishioners this  Friday night (27th May) BBC2 2:25. Frankie Avalon, Dennis Price, Jill Haworth and Richard O'Sullivan !

Thanks to Chris Budd for the tip off.

Ghost Box on Resonance this Saturday

Julian House and I will be guests on Jonny Trunk's OST show on Resonance 104.4FM this Saturday, 7th May at 4:30pm. If you're outside London, you can stream it on the Resonance FM Player Widget  at the bottom of the right hand column of this blog. There'll be some new Ghost Box stuff, soundtrack and library music galore - and very probably a daft competition.

If you missed it Resonance have archived it as a podcast here.