DEAREST KIRSTY

We recorded this version of 'A New England' for a forthcoming Belly Kids compilation, also featured are Halo Halo, Keel Her, Human Hair, Cow Town, Gold Bars and Sauna Youth amongst more interpreting favourite songs! Out June 25th and accompanied with a fanzine of artwork including this fetching cross-stitch Kate with Hound by Reena Makwana.

KIT'S COTY

We looked everywhere to find Kit's Coty.  First we found the picnic area on Blue Bell Hill with it's eager dogs belting out of hatchbacks. A heavily-faded map, sweating behind a plastic glass frame seemed to indicate we were nearby. We then stumbled upon the brasserie which had borrowed it's name and seemingly all signposts, a couple in a flagged-down car had only heard of said restaurant so that lead went cold. After stumbling down steep paths to nowhere and traversing a dangerous triangle of speeding traffic, chalk quarries and the muddied pathways of North Downs walkers, we struck up a hopeful track until an unmistakable stack of sarsen stones huddled over the horizon. Dating from around 3500 BC, Kit's Coty is the most impressive of the Medway Megaliths and a very rare example of a dolmen for the South East. Now only the burial entrance remains of the neolithic long barrow, the rest having been ploughed up and dumped on the periphery of the field. However the colossal capstone and engraved uprights are pockmarked with time and blasted with much grandeur, making the protective railings which surround it more of a cage to contain it. Some graffiti on the centre stone informs us that "Tim HEARTS Chloe", although she is "smelly" according to an additional witness. Kit's Coty derives it's name from the Ancient British for "tomb in the forest", once it held it's secrets in the chequered shade, now it shirks in the open farmland, waiting to be released.

BACUP

  

BACUP

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You are “here today!”

Amongst the community furniture

And affordable websites

Red, white and blue garlands

Seven dances in disguise

Medicine on their feet

Muddy ridge backing onto the valley

Prosperity through endeavour

Pallid makeup and dyed hair

Nutters stamp out decaying circles

Wagging fingers in faces

Whilst the South Pennine

Open moors moon down on…

Rosettes and ritual

TATE PROCESSIONAL

Hello again!
This Friday we're doing a special performance at Tate Britain. We'll be performing a fragmented Way Through set; beginning, ending and interrupted by a number of processional pieces especially conceived for this project. During the performance we will roam the gallery floors visiting artworks by Samuel Palmer, Paul Nash, Richard Long and J.M.W. Turner to name a few whilst performing "processional music". We will also be interacting with Patrick Keiller's new exhibition 'The Robinson Institute' in the Duveen Gallery.

The event is entirely FREE and takes place from 6pm with Hello Goodbye curating a lively evening of music, performance and dance.

Our performance of "Tate Processional" will take place between 7.30pm - 8.30pm.
See you there!
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