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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nice! I really like the nocturnal roadscapes...

Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the Jen Orpin painting which inspired my story 'My Father The Motorway Bridge'... it depicts the bridge that reminds her of her late father... which is also the one just before the junction of the M25 where I take the M3 towards my parents' house the-modernist.org/collections/...

Painting of motorway bridge by Jen Orpin with an empty road beneath it

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've got it. I'll bring it over in two shakes.

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Alan Boon @wcba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My pile of shame finally reached Marshland by @garetherees.bsky.social last night and, before I knew it, I was 150 pages in. Beautiful writing and interesting, after reading all his other books, to go back to where it all started.

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cheers Alan! In the events described in the beginning of that book I was 35 years old... now I have just turned 53!

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks Simon! It wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for you. Six years later (!) it feels like those shoots are flourishing, despite the unrelenting darkness.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"These are the first shoots of a future folklore emerging from an urban Britain that might look soulless and secular but under the surface remains very strange indeed, rippled with weird undercurrents." @garetherees.bsky.social

A photo of a copy of the 2020 Elliott & Thompson edition of Unofficial Britain by Gareth Rees. The cover design is by Jack Smyth.

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Island Life @islandlife4eva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BROKEN AUDIO OF LOST VOICES DEDPERATE TO UNBURDEN PAINFUL SECRETS It’s bandcamp Friday so plugging this again. Borderline Apostasy is a collaboration between me and award winning Liverpool writer Jeff Young. islandlife1.bandcamp.com/track/border... Give it a follow if you want to hear more

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Borderline Apostasy (featuring Jeff Young), by Island Life

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Next Black Arches gig, with me at the vocal helm once again, will be in Hackney on Saturday Oct 17th, supporting Silent-K. dice.fm/event/g58nn5...

Silent K with support from Black Arches, Warlander and Crack Village at Paper Dress vintage saturday 17th October

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Invisible College on Slack City Radio - Uncanny audio: horror and sci-fi film soundtracks, occult psychedelia, eldritch noise and beyond via @jjstannard.bsky.social totallyradio.com/shows/the-in...

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Rob the Bastard, Lord of Misrule @robtruestories.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Influx Press publications are available to buy in USA for the first time, including In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn. USA readers can buy it online, in a bookshop, ideally from your favourite independent bookshop. www.influxpress.com/in-the-shado...

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In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn — Influx Press

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pleasantly bleak walk in northwest Devon.

Tyre crushed between massive rocks on beach

Waterfall cascading down black rock face

Graveyard with flock of crows flying above

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social have just made their books available to buy in the US, including 'Terminal Zones', the cover of which they have erected as a gigantic public artwork in the centre of Manhattan.

Terminal zones by Gareth E
Rees a book of short stories published by Influx Press pictured in park with tower blocks beyond

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The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Samhain edition of The Invisible College takes place on 30th October at Tough Love with a screening of Censor + Q&A with director @pranobaileybond.bsky.social + a live set by @meemocomma.bsky.social + @bunnyhausen.bsky.social on DJ duties. Tickets: wegottickets.com/f/27776

Poster for the next edition of The Invisible College at Tough Love on 30th Oct featuring a screening of Censor + Director Q&A + Meemo Comma (live) + Xylitol/DJ Bunnyhausen (DJ)

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Black square (“and so on to infinity…” inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity #onthisday in 1637. publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have arrived home from holiday to a box of bouncing, beautiful copies of Writing the Real. This is a collection of essays on crafting creative nonfiction which is edited by me and @dancoxon.bsky.social and is published by Dead Ink next month. deadinkbooks.com/products/wri...

Writing the Real edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst.

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Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another unboxing video! This time for WRITING THE REAL, the brand-new collection of essays on crafting Creative Non-Fiction, coming 10 September from Dead Ink. Grab a copy below - and keep it real... deadinkbooks.com/products/wri...

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Out next month: 'Writing the Real', featuring my essay about the unavoidable blurring of fiction and non-fiction in literary representations of the self - published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

Writing the Real, essays on crafting creative non fiction published by dead Ink and edited by Dan Coxon ad richard v. Hirst

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The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Invisible College debuts at Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings on 16th August. We’re screening Philip Brophy’s body horror classic Body Melt with an exclusive video intro from the director plus live sets from @triggerobject.bsky.social and Dream Skills. Get tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/22399

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's (Count) Bin (Face) Day! So here's our track, 'Bin Day' with a bin-based video by me. [Trigger warning: it features a lot of bins]. youtu.be/OXvHXTFfI-w?...

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Black Arches With Sexton Ming – Bin Day

YouTube video by Rocket Recordings

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass Makes pity a fool, the tearing pity For the atoms of the mass, the persons, the victims, makes it seem monstrous To admire the tragic beauty they build." Robinson Jeffers

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The sombre beauty of a sun-scorched Morrisons trolley bay after for consecutive heatwaves in the sixth great extinction.

Morrisons branding images of farm chickens cracked, faded and brown from sun damage

Close up of panel showing sun damaged image of hens on a trolley bay

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Black Arches (the trio version with me on lyric/vocal duty) are supporting Pete Bassman (Spacemen 3) at Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney on 17th October www.gigantic.com/pete-bassman...

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Pete Bassman (Spacemen 3) Live in London + Special Guests Tickets

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The many faces of Bruges Torture Museum.

Mannequin of long haired man with throat torture device

Man with head in head-clamp torture device

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New book! The fifth in the series @dancoxon.bsky.social and I edit for Dead Ink. Guidance and reflections on creative non-fiction from the likes of @jennashworth.bsky.social, @adamjfarrer.bsky.social, @tracyking.bsky.social, @noreenmasud.bsky.social and more! deadinkbooks.com/products/wri...

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Lent my vocals and guitar, along with a few 'Marshland' extracts to some of the tracks on this album by @blackadastra.bsky.social - The Death of the Magic Fish elasticstage.com/blackadastra...

Black Adastra the death of the magic fish album cover showing colourful fish head

Inner sleeve with track listing among collage including cover of Marshland by Gareth E Rees, coins, peacock feathers, photos and ticket stubs.

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

John Cowper Powys writing in 1920 on language and the other-than-human, and "the vision of the immortal companions".

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Awww thanks! That's nice to hear.

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have written a truly diabolical essay about myself and how I go about things for this anthology called 'Writing the Real', which will undoubtedly lead to my second divorce, a nervous breakdown and some savage goodreads reviews deadinkbooks.com/products/wri...

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Writing the Real — ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Pre-Order)

Pre-Order. Publishing 10/09/26 What does it mean to write about the real world? The creative nonfiction writer faces a daunting task. They must sculpt their experiences into captivating narratives, en...

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Cracking review by @jjstannard.bsky.social of our live album in the new issue of The Wire. Streaming here: blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Review of Black Arches Live at the Strongroom, "this download only live document of Hastings psych unit Black Arches is as gnarled and transportative as anything they've released to date; perhaps more so as if captures the essential unpredictability of both the band's muse and that of vocalist sexton ming."

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The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

'Cars that Need to Kill' - Black Arches with Sexton Ming - "Dont go outside, stay in!" youtu.be/u7iW4TJhHW4?...

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Black Arches With Sexton Ming 'Cars That Need to Kill (Live)'

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

'Coat Hanger Ghosts' by Black Arches with Sexton Ming... "Your polyester T-shirt - is that a ghost?!" youtu.be/8geCjl81XZQ?...

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Black Arches with Sexton Ming 'Coat Hanger Ghosts (Live)'

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Black Arches in action with Sexton Ming last night supporting Gnod's end-of-tour show in St Leonards.

Black arches on stage, matt Frost on leader guitar, sexton ming on vocal, James Weaver on bass, Gareth Rees on rhythm guitar and Jason Willams behind an electric drum kit.

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

People of Lanarkshire, come and wander through a former steelworks while a choir sings and strange music plays from sculptures in the trees My strange music... see below for details.

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