Riffs tangle in fog.
Stone hums, roots twitch.
A hand, a chord, a fracture.
Antlers in the amp’s glow.
Green Lung
I went to see Green Lung at the Kentish Town Forum last night, and wow—what a gig.
There’s something deeply comforting about being in a room full of metalheads. Big beards, battle jackets covered in patches, faded band tees from long past tours. A crowd that looks imposing but is, in reality, super polite and welcoming.
Strangers exchanging knowing nods, giving each other space when needed, a quiet but deeply felt camaraderie, rowdy in the right way, but never pushy, just people there for the music.
Loads of people commented made extremely positive comments to me about my Enya hat LOL
The venue was packed—shoulder to shoulder. You could feel the collective charge as the band took the stage, launching into their thing. Melodic stoner-doom assault, equal parts eerie folk mysticism and full-throttle Sabbath worship.
The venue was absolutely packed—shoulder to shoulder, proper sweaty gig vibes. The band sounded phenomenal. Huge riffs, ridiculous solos, all delivered with total confidence, I got what I went for. At one point, mid-guitar solo, full of pinch harmonics, and I had to stop and remind myself that this noise was coming from someone’s actual fingers, just over there on stage. LOL.
It’s wild to think their debut Woodland Rites only came out in 2019. A proper breakthrough record for me. One that instantly cemented them as a band to watch. But just as things were kicking off, the pandemic hit, stopping them from touring.
But since then, they’ve kept building momentum, and seeing them headline a venue like the Forum last night didn’t feel like a final destination, but a beginning. This band still has places to go.
Beyond the English folk horror aesthetic, there’s something more going on with Green Lung. It’s not just trading on a fantasy of a lost, rural England, but something that feels rooted in the real—a connection to culture that isn’t just nostalgia, white vans or football shirts.
I read Caroline Lucas’ Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story last year and haven’t stopped thinking about it. Green Lung feels like they belong in that conversation. Another signal to add to the mood board. They played The Forest Church and Hunters In The Sky from This Heathen Land, and when the singer introduced the song as being abobut “about hunting aristocrats on Dartmoor” the crowd roared.
The whole thing was extremely my shit. I bought a patch at the merch table:
Permanently Moved
Desktop Publishing
I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone seriously use the phrase ‘Desktop Publishing.’ Maybe the mid-2000s?
This episode explores the history of Desktop Publishing, its impact on DIY print culture, and how its ‘ransom note’ aesthetic was later echoed in early web design and why ‘brain rot’ videos feel like a return to folk aesthetics.
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Photo 365
The Ministry Of My Own Labour
- Had a meeting all day in London on Wednesday
- Nearly finished with a personal project
- Started another stupid personal project but confident i’ll be able to finish it
- Spreadsheets. Lots of spreadsheets
Terminal Access
O’l Buddy o’l pal, Paul Graham Raven was featured in / interviewed by Shelfies newsletter
I don’t really have a “favourite” shelf, because I’m a former library worker, and I shelve by category and format — albeit much more loosely than I used to. These are a few rows from my pocket-format paperback genre fiction shelves, the one section of the collection which is (pretty much) alphabetised. I was tempted to rig the game and plant some of my favourite books in this section — how could I miss out the tatty first-issue paperback of Bruce Sterling’s Involution Ocean, randomly found in the “get them out of our sight” basket of one of those basement places that you used to be able to find along the Tottenham Court Road?! But it would have been too obvious… and anyway I think it’s more fun to see what stories can be found in any given section.
Dipping the Stacks
I have a theory that the Stanley cup became TikTok famous in part because its dimensions are almost identical to that of the phone screen (the phone is also a doll, by the way). The most popular Stanley cup is the Stanley Quencher, a 40 oz tumbler made of recycled and BPA-free stainless steel. It is 10.78 inches high, and 5.82 inches wide including its robust handle. So, an aspect ratio of 1:1.85. The TikTok video image is 1:1.78, fractionally squatter than the Stanley but functionally the same. The cup fits into the space of the frame perfectly.
The Benefit (and Joy) of Email Relationships
I think the future of a healthy internet is on formulated thoughts, individualized thinking, and true relationships. I don’t think these things can be achieved on social media. The world is too fractured and things go by too fast when you are clicking likes and typing after being triggered. A lot of us talk about how much we miss the early web, well, maybe it’s time to go back to emails and instant messaging and leave the social media behind.
Oberlander decried how “orthodox” playgrounds were sterile spaces with standardised equipment: This is passive entertainment. There is nothing here that the child can move, change, or adapt to himself; there is nothing to involve his imagination. We must raise a generation that wants, and knows how, to be involved; otherwise they will grow up not knowing what the pleasure of involvement can be … Playgrounds should encourage absorption in activity and unselfconscious concentration, they ought to provide seclusion from disturbing influences, afford a release from everyday pressures and give to the child at play the possibility of a make-believe world.
After a lot of thought, I came to a conclusion. That conclusion? Get rid of those ideas. Stuffing them away like a squirrel hoarding nuts for winter isn’t going to do any good. It won’t get you any closer to making those ideas a reality. You’ll just increase your digital or paper clutter. Older ideas will be buried under newer ones.
578,000. That’s how many people watch CNN during primetime.
If you had that number of streams on Spotify, you’d keep your day job. If you only got that number of views on YouTube or TikTok, you might call yourself an influencer, but you wouldn’t be that influential. But conventional wisdom is CNN is this monolith that must be abhorred by the left and denigrated by the right.
But it’s nearly irrelevant. Wolf Blitzer… Does anybody under 35 know his name?
Yet CNN is considered a political powerhouse. But it is not.
Reading
I finished How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens this week. It’s a fantastic book, and really left me with a solid grounding on how i’m going to use Obsidian in future.
I also finished Anarch by Dan Abnett. The most recent and currently final book SIXTEEN in the Gaunt’s Ghosts seris. I’ve been reading these books on and off for 15 years. Bittersweet. I have 2 anthologies and 2 tie in novels and then i’ve read *everything*.
Music
Violet Cold – Modular Consciousness
Been a while since I mentioned Azerbaijani Blackened Synthwave artist Violet Cold because some of the recent project have been in different directions. But Modular Consciousness is a return to why I started listening in the first place.
If your drawn to any of the following extremes—guttural vocals entwined with 80s-style electronic drum pads, piano lines dancing over lurching electronic rhythms—then this EP is for you. Driving disco beats are shredded by black metal roars, and digitally-tinged pop vocals teeter on the edge of chaos. Fan-fucking-tastic shit.
Remember Kids:
the word ‘master’ being taken away from men of expertise and given to anybody. ‘Master’ became ‘mister’ and now we are all tainted by the negation of correct civilization.
Normal by Warren Ellis
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