Postcards from the Road
Jonathan’s photo book Postcards from the Road (University of Chicago Press) made while touring in the USA available here REVIEW BY NEW YORK’S “ARTnews” MAGAZINE click on image to go there : ) http://www.artnews.com/2014/06/19/new-photo-books-on-cartier-bresson-robert-frank-and-more/
BOOK LAUNCH Gig & exhibition at 86’d Gallery, Ironbridge
Gig and exhibition at 86’d gallery, Ironbridge launching a new book of tour photos. Private view this Wednesday x
Farewell then, South China Sea, you have been beautiful… but Folk on the Park waits for no one : )
Farewell then, South China Sea, you have been beautiful… but Folk on the Park waits for no one : ) #AtlanticDrifterTour http://folkonthepark.co.uk/
Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong – gigs – Hong Kong Design Institute
PERFORMANCE AT HKDI – I HAVE SO LOVED PLAYING IN ASIA! The warm enthusiasm of Hong Kong listeners is lovely : ) … I’m singing about a neolithic circle, half lost in the North Atlantic – playing a huge Chinese drum that was in the venue – swopped for my usual bodhran. I’ve no idea...
Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong – gigs – Peel Fresco
PEEL STREET FRESCO, CENTRAL, HONG KONG.Walking from the Soho levels down, threading between dark wooden restaurants, Peel street begins with the reek of incense, throat-scratchingly intense. The always burning smoke in a small alcove, red tiled, functional, with an indecipherable inscription hidden in a lockable niche. PEEL STREET FRESCO, CENTRAL, HONG KONG. Just down...
Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong – gigs – Bookworm Café
The Bookworm Café is nestled in a quiet corner of a quiet little town on a quiet island. It still has something of the wild Asia of my imaginings – haphazard structures that seem to have coalesced organically, cicadas in the Needle Pines, the air filled with the sound of their dry crackled wings. I’m...
Atlantic Drifter Tour goes to Hong Kong
Flying out of Europe in the rain – like pushing through gray felt, fibres catching at the wings. A brilliant blue was with us most of the way, sunshine curling round the top of the world, stained the colour of air. Catching a little fitful sleep I woke to the most brilliant light. So hard...
Postcards from the Road – launch tour : )
The warm and rainstorm winter and recent sun has left Shropshire blazing – deep green blood flowing underground as the yellow scent of Rapeseed fogs the air. Seven coloured linnets flit like messengers between rainbow and sunshower. Next weekend the green flood will see me in Rhayader at Landed Festival – singing my heart out...
Thailand – Part two
Wandering and playing in Amphawa today … once-was trading port for Siam, water worn timber houses, fragile in the sun, so close to the tidal river and canals they seem in danger at any moment of inundation. Temples necklace the viridian forest, realisation out of water and brilliant light, home of the hero-killer of the...
Thailand – Part one
A time of black and white in my Shropshire hills. The Shein brook which winds along to the Hafren/Severn covered itself in ice. Wandering its upper reaches, I found otter tracks. A really profound feeling, silently welcoming back this elusive creature of water and air. I followed its path over the frozen weir and through...