We have been lost on the island of Gulangyu for hours in the dark, humid night. … It did not occur to us that this island would actually be free from all transport. It was something nice to write in the guidebooks and...
You had to climb up over two hundred stairs to reach the room where I lived in Hanoi. There was no bathroom, no toilet or sink on the top floor – just my little room with its narrow bed and a single window overlooking the...
The path has tracked the river for miles. Straight and unwavering, without deviation. No detour made around an immovable geographical feature, no alternative route trampled by foraging animals, no hastily carved track to...
1. George Clinton – Parliament / Funkadelic O2 Academy, Bristol 17th April 2. Richard Dawson Polish Club, Bristol 14th May 3. Doldrums Louisiana, Bristol 22nd May 4. Destroyer The Lantern...
1. Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again Inhabiting a hazy other-world, this shape-shifting retro folk has the ability to transport you in the same way that Astral Weeks did decades earlier. 2. Port St. Willow...
I had to stop the shower early the spider I had spotted a couple of days previous was making his way, with the gait of a giant, across the ceiling, on his way to turn the power off, before his limbs slowed to stationary with...
The insects had been killed on the way to the miniature model village. Victims of circumstance, splatted upon the car windscreen by forces incomprehensible to them. It was raining now too. Pinhead domes, light-carriers from the...
They have painted over the swastika on the wall outside the cafe – a single coat of white emulsion shrouds it like a veil. A double mobility scooter hums slowly by followed soon after by a woman in dark...
There are two small boxes of china outside on a table. You know the type: chipped plates and cups with badly superglued handles, a piece of paper with ’50p each’ scrawled in felt tip pen. This is the only thing that...