Halloween releases

 

1) A new epic 13-minute track by Ocean in a Bottle called 'Legacy' has appeared on the lastest comp on Shadow Tears called 'Ghost Story: A Musical Collection of Stories from Beyond the Grave'

https://shadowtears.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-story-a-musical-collection-of-stories-from-beyond-the-grave

Pay what you want / stream 

2) An old favourite poem of mine 'The Ghost of Liverpool Empire'

has appeared on the Podcast 'One Final Kiss'

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/3bca0aa6-6a26-45d8-ac44-667291f1b22b/episodes/ae8f7818-0d12-4012-b8da-2658479820d2/the-bounty-bunch-podcast-one-final-kiss?ref=dm_sh_tS2F5HpNsdsRrcL8M6I2toBBu&fbclid=IwAR3PPp3l4KeXVi3Xs9DyWCW2CjCiDb0hzKjPAJ-sIPvgHwJQavYA-JJEA1k

3) Part 1 and 2 of a epic Ghost / Horror poem called 'Ghost on the tracks'

has appeared on my substack page (The rest of the story to follow tomorrow)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/ghost-on-the-tracks-part-1-and-2

Two new Ocean in a Bottle releases

 

Two new Ocean in a Bottle (My Ambient / drone band) tracks have appeared 

on the last Ambient Online Comp Volume 26

https://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-online-compilation-volume-26

Pay what you want / free stream

Also another Ocean in a Bottle track has appeared on the new Aural Films

'Horror Films' 2023 - Walking in a graveyard with Paul Celan

Stream / Can be bought here

https://auralfilms1.bandcamp.com/album/horror-films-2023

New Flash Fiction Publication

The above seventy-five-word flash fiction (including the title) was published yesterday on paragraphplanet.com  

New Spoken Label Session - London After Midnight Panel Discussion

 

A special Podcast today from Spoken Label (Artist Podcast) features Lance Roger Axt, Kenton Hall and Jack Bowman from the crew behind this full-cast audio drama.

London After Midnight is a full-cast audio drama, resurrecting the lost silent horror classic, directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. Originally released in 1927, the film was lost in the notorious 1965 MGM vault fire.

Adapted here by Lance Roger Axt & Kenton Hall from the original screenplay by Waldemar Young & Tod Browning, it stars Art Malik in the role made iconic by Chaney, alongside a full cast.

This extra-sized Podcast goes into the history of the original London After Midnight (An legendary lost silent film), the production of this audio re-imagining and so much more.

This shall be out as a Podcast shortly but it can be streamed/downloaded from

londonaftermidnightaudio.bandcamp.com/album/london-after-midnight

**

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/london-after-midnight-audio-drama-panel-discussion-spoken-label-october-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/london-after-midnight-audio-drama-panel-discussion/id1501847969?i=1000632879765

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/London-after-Midnight-Audio-drama-Panel-discussion--Spoken-Label--November-2023-e2b5c1d

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/MDE2ZjY2M2MtMmYzYy00YTU3LWExNjMtNmNiOWRlNzYyYmU5?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiI8b2nyJmCAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydfmlvNBu-w&t=154s

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/2931918a-f2fe-4371-9900-7c5ded504a35/spoken-label-london-after-midnight-audio-drama-panel-discussion-%E2%80%93-spoken-label-%E2%80%93-november-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyywyFdss1N6efifsipbYfSkIpraZliPNK55hE0/

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CLYZY5F2?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=SD29EM5247YACWXRPGKS&pageLoadId=o3uuBoMOhiOgLsH1&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1lZa67lJ6KSkaPldPZoJFF

and all of the usual places

Poetry in Afflecks Palace, Manchester

 

There's a little poetry corner up in Afflecks Palace in centre of Manchester which features one of my poems 'Longford Theatre' which can also be found in one of my books 'In the Midst of Winter'. Thanks to Ant Smith for this.

What has been appearing on my Sub Stack recently

 

https://andyn.substack.com/p/the-system

(The System - Experimental Prose looking at the Solar System)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/birth-of-birth

(Non-fiction about why it takes 15 years to write a novel)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/police-interview-room-monologue

(Tense short play set in a Police Station)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/chop-off-your-head-with-a-plate

(What happems when you ask Chat GPT to write a Ivor Cutler homage)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/homage-to-paul-celan-ii

(Prose homage to Paul Celan)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/4-x-40-word-bad-date-flash-fiction

(4 x 4 mini flash fiction pieces)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/echoes

(Short play about regrets)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/how-scott-walker-and-his-album-tilt

(Non Fiction How the singer Scott Walker influenced my work with his seminal album from 1995 'Tilt')

Cloaked in the Shadows Episode 25

 

Episode 25 of Cloaked on the Shadows is now live at the links below. This is part one of three in the lead up to Halloween.

Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2089663/13784182

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CytVV7eMkXP6s70cnX_H7fNgI0OIA08owY4zVE0/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/yxotRWRxZ64?si=8Hq0QYCheLnR8N3K

Jack Bowman is an award-winning audio fiction/scripted podcast veteran with 15 years experience in the independent and commercial audio arena. Over that period, he has been involved with numerous audio productions as a writer, director and producer, both creating acclaimed content and producing high-quality podcasts from new and experienced writers. Jack also co-created THE SPRINGHEEL SAGA for Wireless Theatre Ltd., which won numerous awards and festival selections globally, including a hat-trick of US Mark Time Ogles.

Other notable titles in Jack’s career include the award-winning DEAD LONDON, Audible UK’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (with Academy Award nominees Tom Conti and Sophie Okonedo), ARABIAN NIGHTS, THE SOUL BREAKER and THE DARKWATER BRIDE. In 2019, Bowman co-scripted the New York Times Bestseller EXPEDITIONARY FORCE: HOMEFRONT for Dagaz Media & Podium Publishing, and WHOLESALE SOLUTION, a unique UK/US independent audio fiction pilot produced by Dagaz Media, now going to series in 2021.

Outside of podcasting, he has been involved in content heard on BBC Radio 4, BBC Sounds and the RNIB. From 2019 to 2020, he served as Production Consultant to BBC Radio Comedy during its transition to BBC Studios Audio. During 2020, Jack directed and produced CIRCLES, an international audio horror series, simultaneously recorded across the globe with multi-cast voice talent working together live, during the global lockdown. Before joining 5.55, he continued to consult various UK, US and other global audio producers, studios and networks in the audio fiction space.

Also available (still)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkQIiQQ_9g&list=PLQ2XfOogTGj0Qm1d4efNvFbZ7rrkwzSZU&index=26

(Episode 24 - Chelsey Turpening Coxsey (Part 2)

https://youtu.be/uNxQPA5nDcA

(Episode 23 - Chelsey Turpening Coxsey (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p3WYmFc5Ew&list=PLQ2XfOogTGj0Qm1d4efNvFbZ7rrkwzSZU&index=24

(Episode 22 - Kelly Buchan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxrMz6EmTps&list=PLQ2XfOogTGj0Qm1d4efNvFbZ7rrkwzSZU&index=25

(Episode 21 - Matt Tankersley (Part 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njrEHUqioOc&list=PLQ2XfOogTGj0Qm1d4efNvFbZ7rrkwzSZU&index=23

(Episode 20 - Matt Tankersley (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxGp-i166k&list=PLQ2XfOogTGj0Qm1d4efNvFbZ7rrkwzSZU&index=22

(Episode 19 - Kris Sumner (Part 2)

Speak Easy Readers - November 2023

* Speak Easy Readers for November 2023 *

Enclosed below (Not in order) is the list of readers

for the next Speak Easy (Spoken Word Open Mic night)

at Dulicmer, Chorlton on Thursday 2 November 2023

Starting at 7.30pm. All readers will entertain with

a 4-minute selection of their work. 

To go on the subs list: email: aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

(If you think Andy (Me) has missed you off. please email

me above. 

Steve Smythe

Andy Npoet

David Bond

Andy Cash

Joe Tetley

Roy Page

Gordon Zola

Martin Elder

Keith Scott

Luke P

Danny McLoughlin

Italo Ferrante 

Amanda Nicholson

Linda Downs

Amy Langley

Siobhan Hoy   

Natasha Tingle

Eve Nortley

Quigley CB

Maia Balad

Faye Kavanagh 

Hannah Ledlie 

New Spoken Label Session - Emma K Lea

 

The latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) is the wonderful Emma K Lea.

Emma is a dyslexic poet, author and SEN specialist living in Stretford with her partner, daughter and rescue hens. She has started to record her writings as videos with the text on the screen to make her books more accessible to people who can't access them as traditional paperbacks for whatever reason. These read along audiobooks are available for free to anyone who wants them and has an internet connection. Emma has an MA in Inclusive Education and SEN. She works with home schooling families who's children cannot access either mainstream or specialist provision in schools and is incredibly proud of the progress 'her chiddlers' make. The chickens are a real conundrum. Emma doesn't like eggs.

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/emma-k-lea-spoken-label-october-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/emma-k-lea-spoken-label-october-2023/id1501847969?i=1000631780506

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/NjQ1ZjNlZjctOTg0Yy00ODQxLThlOWEtMmQxMGIzMGVlOTM1?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwi4qYvqu4mCAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qsR-kGAYik (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNO5JVBvJ2E&t=1s (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/af8f20c6-da28-4cc5-a005-b9d20a1a92e6/spoken-label-emma-k-lea-spoken-label-october-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/CysgYL8txPIoeoZC5SoYzImlCUBYtIsOT_l-IE0/ (Reading)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Emma-K-Lea-Spoken-Label-October-2023-Podcast/B0CLBVB6NG?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=QBQN49GYPEYCN2X0XD8F&pageLoadId=619Tjp7kA4WW7vWu&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7H2oDuQB6WENkvU4jA5XRt 

etc etc

Spoken Label New Session - Marigold Lately.

 

Next up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features a lady who has been making a bit of a splash recently in the Northwest of England, Marigold Lately.

Marigold Lately was born in the Autumn of 2022 after a gestation period of more than 50 years. Since her birth she has performed at approaching 100 comedy and spoken word events throughout the Northwest.

Sorrowful and snarling - sharing tales and often surreal, comic commentary from someone ‘stuck on a pin’, wriggling, who is willing to share it.

Marigold is viciously gentle – straddling genres but never sitting on the fence.

She will be making her stage debut in her one-woman show 'Dirty Old Town' in November at the Hope Street Theatre, Liverpool.

‘Dirty Old Town’ is a dark, comic place where characters are not always quite what they seem.

The show is a combination of storytelling, stand-up comedy and performance. Hilariously NOT funny.

More details are here on Instragram - @marigoldlately

**

 

 

 

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/marigold-lately-spoken-label-october-2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6-Xwpgdo_Y

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/b28cddd6-5b16-414b-bf8e-d17cff088877/spoken-label-marigold-lately-spoken-label-october-2023

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Marigold-Lately-Spoken-Label-October-2023-Podcast/B0CKQ87M2Q?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=5FAAYK5RSBMJ74Q89DYS&pageLoadId=3ysa6DJX1t15uwW9&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ODg0ZGQyNDctZDVmOS00NmNkLTgxZTEtZWMzMmU2OWQ3OGI3?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiQ__Wz1veBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyacxsvNT8oBHDCy7gI3fjXSdbIGnW_vUT4Bxs0/

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6LcRrHkIN4potP8nWeO9F0

 

 

 

 

New Spoken Label Podcast - Rebecca Dharlingue

 

The latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) sees us return to meet a returning friend, the wonderful Rebecca Dharlingue to chat about her new novel 'The Map Colorist'.

Rebecca advises " In writing my first novel, The Lines Between Us, I returned to an early love, Spanish literature, which I studied in graduate school. The idea of setting part of my novel in seventeenth-century Spain, their Golden Age of literature, offered me the chance to explore a time and place with which many readers are unfamiliar, and to show some of the challenges for women particular to that time and place.

For my second novel, I decided to stay in the seventeenth century, as I find it fascinating. I wanted to show a woman doing something unusual for the time, and I hit upon the topic of cartography. In my research I soon learned that Amsterdam was the capital of map-printing at that time, so I had my setting. It was while I was exploring that world that I came across the work of map colorists. My protagonist was born.

I have worked in hospital administration and as a teacher of English as a Second Language to adults. I have been lucky to be involved with the same monthly book group, sharing our enchantment with literature, for over thirty years. I live in Oakland, California with my husband, Arthur, where we are fortunate to frequently spend time with our children and grandchildren.

I am member of Paper Lantern Writers, an author collective, and the Historical Novel Society."

Rebecca's Website which contains details of where to buy her book is rebeccadharlingue.com  

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/rebecca-dharlingue-spoken-label-october-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/rebecca-dharlingue-spoken-label-october-2023/id1501847969?i=1000630338567

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Rebecca-Dharlingue-Spoken-Label--October-2023-e2a1560

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZDgzYjg5ZGQtZDMyYi00MzJiLWJlMDQtNWVmMzRjNWExYzcy?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjY0pCFyOmBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yXGZakLIyA (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_OzHWxf7qU (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/ac4f66e1-f439-4523-952a-393245ea41d2/spoken-label-rebecca-dharlingue-spoken-label-october-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyIXQ_0LjMNCqxmyTJnkTK0sOgra1NDowUCsco0/ (Chat Segment)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyIXhtYAeBNu3nMu-k4sTdKxwkqfGDTOw2Xow80/ (Reading Segment)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Rebecca-Dharlingue-Spoken-Label-October-2023-Podcast/B0CKJVKP7S?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=11WFYQC3JHZC5BBDSV76&pageLoadId=HeSXOUbPDj2s2XBk&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6roLJKYmqcTduyrthHm5Ac

Speak Easy thank you's October 2023

 

 Thanks to everybody who attended Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word Open Mic night at Dulicmer,

Chorlton) last night.

Thanks to all those who read:

1) Jeff Dawson

2) Danny McCloughlin

3) David Bond

4) Andy Cash

5) Maia Ballad

6) Amanda Nicholson

7) Martin Elder

8) Gordon Zola

9) Tom Butterworth

10) Tracey Walker

11) Andy N

12) Expection

13) Nick W

14) Amy Langley

15) Grant Curnew

Next Speak Easy show shall be on Thursday 02 November 2023.

Amanda took loads of pictures which are here - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=speakeasymanchester&set=a.819074536677999

A full upload of the show is currently uploading here - https://andyn.bandcamp.com/

Bookings start for the show from this Sunday 08 October from midday by emailing – aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

Anybody who fancies guest hosting for us drop Steve a email at stevesmythe50@gmail.com

New Spoken Label Session - Zainab Ahmad

 

Making her debut today on Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features new to the Manchester (UK) Spoken Word Scene, the wonderful Zainab Ahmad perhaps better known as the Intangible Author talking about Zainab's debut poetry book "Edge of Salvation".

The book is described as "Sometimes we find ourselves fighting for our lives at the bottom of a hole. It’s dark, damp, and you’re exhausted. You’re not exactly sure how you got there but you definitely fell.

Do you stay there and with for someone to save you or try climbing out? The wait could be endless and the climb is tough. This is the journey to the edge of salvation. Told through a series of poems about life, love, grief, and longing. All written at some point of this journey."

The book can be purchased on Amazon

Zainhab is on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theintangibleauthor/

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/zainab-ahmad-spoken-label-october-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/zainab-ahmad-spoken-label-october-2023/id1501847969?i=1000629736990

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast?fbclid=IwAR3kgzjKhTD5R4jUW79n2dZ1h4cYZ_gi41oRmRZe36021rFFV6olZZ8U-kU

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/NDhkMGQ4Y2UtNDU0ZC00NGQ0LTg5ZTEtMmZhYWIyNmVhZTNl?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjQ88DmtdSBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTwZ_Zhd3_o&t=3s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGvpGZ1I4jI&t=40s (Chat Part 2 / Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx2YHNnLXdvQ7mBKhtZX6eA3HBYqd7HDX5HjCU0/ (Chat Part 1)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx2i7-8x5zA0Bg1V8EC1J0LOhpFEjopnYHrSeY0/ (Chat Part 2 / Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/ee56c136-2150-4111-bd2d-ed2890e4555e/spoken-label-zainab-ahmad-spoken-label-october-2023

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CK647MFZ?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=BKKAWQ8TBP6J78R6TQB2&pageLoadId=J1zwUC2ZKDo7noHd&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/30PZj3LdvsTtQTg0CeSmzf