My friends The Loft have their first LP released soon as Pete stated on facebook It’s been a long time coming, but, 38 years after we split , we have finally…
Author: Shaun Belcher
Sing, rant and scribble
PIAO Festival Hammersmith London 27th February 1994
27th February 1994 my band The High Priests played the PIAO indie festival in London at which we spectacularly fell out on stage and by end of set band was over and…
My First Reel to Reel recording 1981
Skeletons on the Roundabout by The Skylarks Inspired by Hornsey art college and unemployed then working in a nuclear reactor (true)I turned to music. In 1981 I filled my parent’s bedroom with…
TAPE HEAVEN: My adventures with analogue tape-recording
I started recording to tape back in the early 1980s. In fact my friend Stephe still has an ancient reel to reel that when we tried to get working still had a…
Gold Cadillac – West Kensington Dreams 1994
From the mid 1980s I recorded a lot on fostex X-15 4-track with one broken channel so effectively 3 Track. I have never been able to use those tapes since Fostex finally…
Social Media Meme – Best Gig
This is a current cultural meme…therefore I am conforming to social stereotypes ….and also sharing it so you can conform too.. 01. First concert Be Bop Deluxe – Oxford New Theatre January…
New recordings of Americana
Just in case you thought I’d sold my soul to pop music here is the latest installment in my sad americana odyssey that began with Floodplain demos back in 2000. So…
THE HOBBY HORSES: Giddyupagogo
I am performing weird electro-folk with my partner in crime Denise Weston. We are called The Hobby Horses (UK) https://trailerstar.co.uk/hobbyhorses/ First offering below.
DARK WEATHER: The New Country 1985
Original poem from 1985
DARK WEATHER: ECO EXPERIMENTAL POETRY SOUNDSCAPES
Experimenting with poetry and sound….26 poems related to a damaged ecology 1981-2022 set to soundscapes. Album cover and here first track based on the Crystal Palace fire as seen above. The…