Name: My Johnny by Kenneth
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Description: Recorded onboard West View Study Centre in 2011.

ChoppinForFun vocals

'Gumming up the works' fantasizes about luminous constellations of dropped chewing gum on the street, confronts a horrible compulsion to seek out the hard stuff glued under desks or in the recesses of train carriages before finding itself fixated upon various species of lumps, heaps and piles: ultimately the essay explores creative work as a sort of digestion or composting, and suggests we have quite a lot to learn from worms.
This spoken word essay is accompanied by a publication featuring 26000 words of excessive, digressive footnotes, the generation of which have become the point of the exercise... Footnotes occur at the times indicated by the Pam Flett Press comments on the track. They are about lichen, large format photography, islands, creative block, binary erotics, fiddling, getting side-tracked, stickiness, shit, disgust, using animals to think with, the Katamari Damacy computer game, tumbleweed methodology, hoarding, clutter, impropriety, rubbish... 
For more info & to get hold of a copy of the print publication go to the website http://www.joannelee.info/_/gumminguptheworks.html where you can also download a pdf transcript of the recording.

Gumming Up The Works

early version of Riverside Living song from Collected Local Songs https://stevenball.bandcamp.com/album/collected-local-songs

Messing About On The River

Soundtrack for a film. Original piece on a 50 year old 12 string guitar recorded in a back yard with some starlings watching that were perched on the phone lines. 

 Image: Kevin Boniface, 'A New Craze From America - Like Skateboarding'

And She Was Carried Away Up Into The Sky Above

Earlier arrangement of the song Artwash on the Surplus EP https://stevenball.bandcamp.com/album/surplus

Artwash

Vernacular

Anarchy In Arbroath

Recorded onboard West View Study Centre in 2011.

My Johnny

Album version of a live favourite...we'd been listening to MBV...

CONGRESS VAMPIRES (Album Version)

'Stale Mate' from new 2017 album 'Track Marks' featuring Nick Dunne on guitar

Stale Mate

Caught by the River Eden is a specially curated a mix of spoken word, music, and nature sounds inspired by the Lakes. BBC 6Music’s Stuart Maconie shares his experiences of climbing the mountains of the Lakes and pays tribute to mountaineer and journalist A. Harry Griffin; author Roy Wilkinson talks about growing up in Kendal and the start of his brothers’ group, British Sea Power, and the UK’s foremost field recording artist Chris Watson presents Lake District recordings from his archives. There’s also new, improvised music from the wonderful Jack Cooper (Modern Nature), and a reading from author Helen Mort.
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Commissioned by Aerial: Sounds & Words in the Lake District. 
View the full programme at: www.aerialfestival.com.

My Johnny

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