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Euston Station Platform
The electrical hums, mechanical whirs and cavernous clatters of Euston station platform is the sound bookending a journey to or from London. You're often out of it far too quick, though, either to…
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on a Sunday Morning
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, designed by Thomas Telford is the highest canal aqueduct in the world. If you're not sure if you're scared of heights or susceptible to height vertigo, it's a good place to…
Solstice Sunrise in Dibbinsdale Ancient Woodland
Dibbinsdale is a site of special scientific interest near Bromborough on the Wirral, cradling the river Dibbin passing through. I arrived at around 4am and set up, having never been before. With it…
A cemetary next to a motorway junction
There's a Pentecostal Church on the Westminster - one of Ellesmere Port's suburbs - that backs onto a motorway sliproad. The sliproad was opened in 1972 to join up with the M53, a motorway that ran…
An iron bridge over a train track
This recording is bookended and criss-crossed by two different journeys. At the start, a train passes directly under the bridge, and at the end, a person walks a bike across it. Listening with…
An allotment on the first warm day of the year
We're in Stamford Street allotments in Ellesmere Port again, this time on the first warm Saturday of the year. Before heading out I saw a bubmlebee out of the window, which I saw as a good omen and…
Hebden Bridge: Hebden Friends of Palestine
Here we meet Christine, who spends most weekends protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza from Hebden Bridge town centre. Christine was also one of the Greenham Women, who protested the arrival of…
Joe Massey at The Bull
Before paying keyboard and harminica for the brilliant Ellesmere Port band Oranj Son, Joe Massey took to the stage at The Bull's Head, a flat-roof institution, to perform renditions of Bach's Prelude…
Hebden Bridge: Valley Organics Workers' Co-op
The first part of a series of recordings around Hebden Bridge. In this episode you can hear from Chris, who helps run a workers' co-op in the town. Recorded on the 27th January 2024.
Suburban dawn snow melt
Due to the weather being too trecherous to go anywhere else, here is a recording from a back garden of a subdued dawn chorus smattered with clumps of thawing snow falling from trees. The sound was…
An Allotment Chicken Coop
Spend some time with some chill chickens from Stamford Street allotments in Ellesmere Port. Clipped the mics to the chicken wire roof and left them for 30 mins. There may be standard background chat,…
Goldfinches and a glass furnace
A recording of dawn chorus on Ince Marshes. The protected nature reserve sits in the Stanlow marshland now occupied by heavy industry. Some of the heaviest - oil refineries, chemical plants, glass…
Take five: Stop Off at Tebay Services
Apparently the most beautiful service station in the country. On the M6, Tebay offers artisan food, drinks, bits and bobs, and is set back from the motorway with views of the Lake District. This hark…
Steam Launch Engine
Recorded at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port. I used the Lom Geofon attached directly to the engine, giving it a nice low burbling sound, and combined this with a single Clippy EM272…
A Violent Ambience: BAE Systems, Govan
This episode was recorded just outside BAE systems in Govan, Glasgow, on a quiet, unassuming - but slightly windy - residential street. The day before I recorded, people protested outside to try and…
Take 5: Barcelona street corner
It's 12:45 and 22 degrees on the 13th May. It doesn't seem that warm when you read it like that, but you and your mate have been walking around with your luggage for the best part of an hour, hungry,…
Reverberations of the Clyde Tunnel Walkway, Glasgow
Stopped to record the sound of cars heard through the echoic Clyde Tunnel Walkway. Decided to bring out the Lom Geofón to record the reverberations through the metal railings, adding a lovely tense…
Anfield: Jürgen Klopp's Last Game
A mixture of a walkabout, asking fans their first memories and how they feel about Klopp leaving, as well as catching the singing of You'll Never Walk Alone at the start of the match.
Take 5: Car wash in Eccles
Recorded binaurally in a Morrisons Car Wash in Eccles. Headphones highly recommended. 'Take 5' episodes are short and to the point: sit down, close your eyes, and imagine you're somewhere else for a…
Ballachulish dawn chorus
Recording at the Ballachulish Slate Quarry, in the Scottish Highlands, on Sunday 5th May 2024.
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