Reposted by Andrew Rumseychurchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The first episode of The Symposium is live! Tune into our podcast for an introduction to the series and a talk from Andrew Rumsey, titled "Another Country: social order & the national church." Listen now on our website or on your favourite podcast platform. 👉 tinyurl.com/4h2c3rwp 022
Reposted by Andrew RumseyAssistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · 07/06/2026Last song tonight is by @andrewrumsey.bsky.social - a deeply lovely elegy for Andrew's friend, Jon Cannon, titled 'The Memorial Service Order of Friends'. I've ordered this book by Jon, which looks wonderful www.hachette.co.uk/titles/jon-c... Thanks for listening tonight 💚andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.comThe Memorial Service Orders of Friends, by Andrew Rumseyfrom the album Collodion 072
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026June dates in lovely places, including Yatesbury church, where the new album was recorded last summer. 021
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Marred cross, 15th century. All Saints, Great Chalfield. 021
Reposted by Andrew RumseyAssistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · 20/04/2026Show 20 of Fresh Ingredients is now up on Mixcloud & features a whopping great flood of intelligent pop: @thesuncharms.bsky.social, @andrewrumsey.bsky.social, @durutti74.bsky.social, @eggsonmars.bsky.social, Vemberlain, Radhika, The Pillars of Creation & Lord Fayrebank! & a new thing from Assistant!mixcloud.comFresh Ingredients with Jonathan Shipley - Episode 20 (19/04/26)Twenty weeks of indie pop! This is starting to feel like a long term relationship. Tonight’s Fresh Ingredients radio show (the 20th) broadcast as ever Untidy Radio at 7pm, and featured lots of terrif... 01510
Reposted by Andrew RumseyGareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 15/04/2026The @recordstoredayuk.bsky.social preview is live on @clashmusic.com! Get the lowdown on which things to look for on Saturday. Plus, excellent jazz reissues, Gorillaz, Andrew Rumsey and Katherine Priddy. Read and share as you wish! www.clashmusic.com/features/jus... 32812
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Going to Ground from Yatesbury church, about the making of my new record, Blank Arcades. youtu.be/bqToi8XMcPw?...youtu.beGoing to Ground 6:21YouTube video by Andrew Rumsey 010
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Brilliant blue spring evening for last night’s gaslit gig at the Tin Church, near Frome. 030
Reposted by Andrew RumseyBarry Hill @bishopbarry.bsky.social · 14/03/2026After a morning of @dioceseofyork.bsky.social synod, with a focus on rural ministry, will be joining @andrewrumsey.bsky.social (and The One Show) in pilgrimage on the St Aelred's trail, with 4pm open air service in Rievaulx Abbey (all welcome) followed by an evening of his new album in Helmsley. 072
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Thanks @freqzine.bsky.social for such an in-depth review. 042
Reposted by Andrew RumseyUnspun Heroes® @unspunheroes.com · 01/03/2026Treated myself to one of the 50 copies of @andrewrumsey.bsky.social’s new - and brilliant - album, Blank Arcades. I discovered Andrew’s music via @justplayed.bsky.social back in 2023, and I’m so happy I did. Listen/buy here: andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.com/album/blank-...andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.comBlank Arcades, by Andrew Rumsey16 track album 042
Reposted by Andrew RumseySHOPFIRES @shopfiresmusic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Track of the day Fall in Eugene by @andrewrumsey.bsky.social from the excellent new album Blank Arcades. Shades of Julian Cope echoing throughout this song 👌 andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.com/track/fall-i...andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.comFall in Eugene, by Andrew Rumseyfrom the album Blank Arcades 042
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026My new record, Blank Arcades, is released today. Mark Ellen is very nice about it on this week’s Word In Your Ear, and you can order all the varsions on Bandcamp. 041
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 21/02/2026My new record Blank Arcades is released next weekend. Third of these albums-in-a-day recorded in historic Wiltshire churches - this one in gorgeous All Saints, Yatesbury. 132
Reposted by Andrew RumseyJosh Meadows @joshmeadows.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Playlist & playback for today’s It’s a Jangle Out There. jangleoutthere.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/p... @hiddenbayrec.bsky.social @skepwax.bsky.social @howlinbanana.bsky.social @gregwilliamsongs.bsky.social @andrewrumsey.bsky.social 394
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Ash Wednesday, St John, Devizes. #percrucemadlucem 030
Reposted by Andrew RumseyAssistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · 15/02/2026Under way on #freshingredients with two lovely, somewhere betwixt Nick Drake and Julian Cope songs from this lovely new album from @andrewrumsey.bsky.social. Thank you very much for tuning in, if you have. Listen to Andrew here: andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.com/album/blank-...andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.comBlank Arcades, by Andrew Rumsey16 track album 032
Reposted by Andrew Rumsey(un)Tidy Music @untidymusic.com · 15/02/2026In an hour, Fresh Ingredients on untidyradio.com: Episode thirteen of this indie pop radio show will feature songs by Heaveny, @andrewrumsey.bsky.social, Royal Ottowa, Way Dynamic, @shopfiresmusic.bsky.social and @glenndonaldson.bsky.social. And lots more that jangles and shimmers. #music #indie 063
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Prestonville skyline. Lovely gig in Brighton last night, first outing for the new songs. 030
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 11/01/2026New and pew-shaking performances in the offing. Next album out shortly. 030
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Details for my lecture at The Courtauld next Monday evening, with Sheona Beaumont. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/eng...courtauld.ac.ukEnglish Sacred Land and How to Travel by its Image and its ArchitectureJoin us for this Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar, where artist Dr Sheona Beaumont and theologian Dr Andrew Rumsey will explore how images -particularly photographs - along with ideas of pilgrimag... 110
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Blank arcades: new blog piece. andrewrumsey.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/b...andrewrumsey.wordpress.comBlank Arcades‘Black Dog Signalisation’, reads the yellow roadworks display entering West Lavington, as if alerting drivers to their likely descent into a low mood across Salisbury Plain. Yet the morning is gree… 030
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 15/10/2025I wanted it darker. 6:45am Matins at Buckfast Abbey. 050
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Lennon-McCartney shrubbery analysis. Privet at Forthlin Road, laurel at Mendips. 030
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The nineteen rules of the Market Lavington choir. Rightly still pinned in the vestry. 020
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Yatesbury church, yesterday. Fifteen songs recorded for the next album-in-a-day. 041
Reposted by Andrew RumseyMark Brend @minutebook.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Thanks Johnnie Johnstone and Shindig! for this review of Down River: In search of David Ackles 032
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025‘The world is full of jangling noises. You know there are better melodies, but you will never transmit the heavenly music to others unless you yourselves are tuned into it’. Rave on, Evelyn. #islandofneighbours 030
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Colin Heber-Percy & I in conversation tonight for a @hungerfordbookshop.bsky.social event at Croft Hall. Speaking about his fine new book, with a few songs from me. 030
Reposted by Andrew RumseyHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Amazing definition in this romantic 1855 image of Fountains Abbey by Philip Henry Delamotte. The image was produced by the 'collodion wet plate process', which needed the photographic material to be coated, sensitised, exposed and developed within the span of about 15 minutes , 212813
Reposted by Andrew RumseyBoundless Magazine @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social · 11/03/2025"It is the empty church that holds the fuller presence. This may be mere introversion but, since taking on the C of E’s national brief for church buildings and cathedrals, I have called in to hundreds, and have found they speak most loudly when we quieten down a little."buff.lyIn retreatAndrew Rumsey reflects on the 'fuller presence' of an empty church 073
Reposted by Andrew RumseyGareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The latest @clashmusic.com column is live! @pollypaulusma.bsky.social, @andrewrumsey.bsky.social and many more besides: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...clashmusic.comJust Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #61 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & InterviewsAs with last month, it’s all about the new releases as we take a look at what filled the racks of the nation’s record shops during February. It has been a 3257
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 07/03/2025In retreat: new piece for @boundlesslit.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/boundles...open.substack.comIn retreatAndrew Rumsey reflects on the 'fuller presence' of an empty church 042
Reposted by Andrew RumseyRcommendr.com @rcommendr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025We have just posted a new interview with @minutebook.bsky.social about his amazing album Tremulant that re-invents traditional hymns as haunting folk songs (and a myriad of others creative projects!) www.rcommendr.com/mark-brend-i...rcommendr.comMark Brend interview - www.rcommendr.com - share the stuff you loveDavid Ackles / Ghostwriter / Tremulant / Hymns / Suzy Mangion / Andrew Rumsey / Michael Weston King / The Palace of Light / Mabel Joy / Dulcimer / Undercliff 022
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 22/02/2025My new record ‘Collodion’ is released next Friday 28/2, launch events below. Grateful for this first review by Alexis Petridis @theguardian.com. 094
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I welcome today’s decision by the Heritage Minister, with gratitude and some relief. Here is my joint statement, with @bpviv.bsky.social. 093
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Yesterday evening at Stinsford church, where Thomas Hardy was Christened, and his heart is buried. Thrilled to have this on our patch, and so well cared for. Called by to pray & so glad I did. #darkling #wessex #bleaktwigs 030
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social · 15/01/2025The partnership between county archives/history centres & Church of England dioceses is one that needs celebrating and strengthening. 1/2 293
Reposted by Andrew RumseyMarsha de Cordova @marshadecordova.bsky.social · 09/01/2025⛪ The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme has ensured the restoration of thousands of church buildings across the country, preserving spiritual spaces & our cultural heritage. 📣 My question to the House today: Given the scheme's vital importance, can the Govt confirm its future? 1177
