Thank you for following Uncanny Landscapes. Here’s a new episode of the podcast; an interview with Drew Mulholland. As you know, this is a free project, both newsletter and podcast - nothing is purposefully paywalled. If you’re able to support my work through a donation (aka paid subscription) - thank you!! I truly appreciate it. And if you’re not, perhaps you can support by telling a friend (or two, or 100) about the Substack’s free subscriptions and accompanying podcast.
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It’s been a while since I’ve done an episode, and a lot is going on. Before anything else, let me apologise to Drew - there was a maddening series of technical impairments with this episode, and I thought it might not work out at all until recently acquiring some new editing tools that have resuscitated the file! There may still be some glitches and ghosts, but not more than one would expect when talking to the so-called Godfather of Hauntology.
I want to mention a few upcoming events that may be of interest to y’all.
This Friday, 24th October, is COUNTERPOINTS: WALKING TO CHANGE DIRECTION at West Dean College, W. Sussex (nr. Chichester). An incredible lineup of people related to the walking arts, including Hamish Fulton, Harriet Tarlo, Hope Wolf, Stone Club and many more. A few tickets remain avail. from here.
This Sunday, 26th October, I’m performing with Stuart Bowditch at SPILL Festival in Ipswich. I’m performing assembled texts inspired by Suffolk reformist preachers and enclosure movements while Stu accompanies me with field recordings of John Constable painting locations. We’re followed by the debut of a newly composed peal for the church bells of St Clement’s in Ipswich. Info is available here.
There are very few tickets remaining for the London book launch of LISTENING TO LANDSCAPE: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion by Phil Hubbard on 21st November. A real hauntology family reunion, this event includes a roundtable with Phil, Jim Jupp (Ghost Box), Frances Castle (Clay Pipe), Stonecirclesampler and Oliver Cherer, chaired by yours truly. I’ve also written the foreword to the book, and today’s guest Drew Mulholland is featured in its pages. Tickets from here, and nab ‘em quick-like!
In more hauntology news, there are screenings of the film WE ARE MAKING A FILM ABOUT MARK FISHER including the London debut on the 30th October. Tickets and info here.
Finally, two projects coming to fruition: My new book comes out 18th November. Dead The Long Year is a psychedelic-historical-fiction novella set in Bohemian London, 1912, telling the story of a young woman in a trapped life attempting to escape through art and magick. Pre-orders from the publisher Far West Press in the USA, or from shops incl. Waterstones in the UK.
And sign up now for updates about my mad project to publish the unpublished works of occultist, poet and publisher Victor Neuburg - check it out here on kickstarter.
PHEW.
Drew Mulholland is a Scottish musician, composer, artist and writer. His work as Mount Vernon Arts Lab, in particular the recording Seance at Hobs Lane, has proven immeasurably influential on the musical genre known as ‘hauntology’ as well as on the greater field of psychogeography. He has collaborated with artists as varied as Coil, Delia Derbyshire, the Edinburgh String Quartet and Generation X; he has made work from the leaf-litter of Syd Barrett’s childhood home and the collected weathered stumps of the original wooden Wicker Man; he’s been a composer in residence and a folk-horror icon.
In a varied conversation, he’ll tell us his musical origin story, how the bombed-out post-war outer rings of Glasgow inspired him, and why he’s making guitar tracks with actors. I hope you enjoy.
