Gareth E. Rees

@garetherees

Guitar in psych-noise band, Black Arches. Author of Unofficial Britain, Car Park Life, Sunken Lands, Marshland & more. Psychogeography. Mythology. Ecology. Hastings.

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Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· 4d

The failure of capitalism.

Sun ravaged sign saying "we're making sure hour trolley is clean and ready to roll"

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· 4d

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

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Jul 14

Suffering mannequins.

Man with bloodied hand and rope around neck stuck in a sack

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Jul 14

The many faces of Bruges Torture Museum.

Mannequin of long haired man with throat torture device

Man with head in head-clamp torture device

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Jul 8

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.

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Jul 2

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."

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Jun 12

Welcome to Hastings.

Lamppost with stickers - one banning alcohol and shouting, the other showing Hunter S Thompson

Fly tipped sofa and rubbish in front of a no fly tipping sign

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· May 18

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.

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Mar 21

It has escaped.

Outfall pipe on shingle beach with bars bent as if a prisoner has escaped

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Mar 18

Rare gig news - we are supporting Gnod at The Piper, St Leonards May 16th - tickets here: share.google/TbuBHYJKG2O4...

Gnod plus Black Arches, the Piper St Leonards Sunday 17th May 6.30pm

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 31

I wrote a micro piece about midwinter sunshine and interstellar visitors for @necessaryfiction.com's 'Points of Light' necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

Low winter sunshine blasts through the blinds of a house window

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 8

This one had a pool table!

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 8

28 days later on the Forth Road Bridge....

Forth road bridge empty but for one female figure in the distance

Forth bridge viewed in distance from empty forth road bridge

Selfie of Gareth Rees on cycle path on empty bridge

Faded image of pedestrian footway symbol on ragged looking road surface

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 8

The crossing.

Sideways view of Queensferry crossing reflected in the forth of Forth, Edinburgh, Scotland

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 8

Spent the past few nights in a pre-WWI gun battery on the Firth of Forth trove.scot share.google/vr3egGRKvcjD...

Bedroom in the interior where the shells used to be stored

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 6

New Weird Britain: 2025 in review @thequietus.com features Black Arches with Sexton Ming's album 'Folly' thequietus.com/tq-charts/co...

The Quietus - new weird Britain 2025 in review by Noel Gardner

Black Arches Sexton Ming Folly, "this seven song LP by Sussex psych unit Black Arches with Kent poet Sexton Ming has thr undiluted New Weird Britain juice for sure, the product of a gang of outsiders in a smallish town (Hastings) hitting on something that slaps even if you're not in their gang."

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 6

Occult connections in North Queensferry

Queensferry crossing illuminated at night between trees

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 6

A herd of sauropods migrates south across the firth.

View of forth bridge looking like a series of red steel dinosaurs

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 6

Life beneath the bridge.

Narrow backlane with streetlamp beneath brick pillar holding up Forth Bridge

Cottage with picket fence beneath forth bridge

Bus stop with Forth bridge directly behind it

Modern bungalow and row of victorian cottages beneath bridge

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Dec 6

Been getting up close and personal with this bridge.

Picnic bench beneath the forth railway bridge

Close up of red struts with maintenance vehicles beneath

Close up shot of Forth bridge from beneath, red metal stretching towards stone

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Sep 17

New arrival by @drtombolton.bsky.social via @strangeattractor.bsky.social

Tom Bolton Atomic Albion journeys around Britain's Nuclear Power stations - cover showing shots of power stations in blue coloring

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Aug 11

This Saturday catch Black Arches doing our weird thing with Sexton Ming at our first ever London show, supporting Japanese psych band Quajaku at the Strongroom in Shoreditch. Tickets: www.gigantic.com/other-side-p...

Shot of black arches band in black and white on either side of poster for Qujaku live at the strongroom bar, 16 aug from 7.45pm.

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Jun 15

Short snippet of yesterday's noisy shenanigans - Black Arches with Sexton Ming at Tough Love records in St Leonards

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Jun 13

Getting all the right notes in the wrong order tomorrow afternoon at Tough Love record shop in St Leonards.

Black Arches with Sexton Ming live at Tough Love Bohemia Rd St Leonards 3pm Saturday 14th June. With a black and white photo of the band looking grizzled in am alleyway.

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· Jun 13

@lazaruscorporation.co.uk Hi Paul - details of tomorrow afternoon's gig (if you happen to be free)

Black arches live at Tough Love record shop 3pm Bohemia Rd St Leonards

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· May 8

"Like trauma regression therapy carried out in the back room of a jazz club" - great review by @spennyt.bsky.social of Black Arches with Sexton Ming's album via @rocketrecordings.bsky.social in the latest issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

Cover of The Wire music magazine with photo of Cosey Fanni Tutti

Review copy- next up is a collaboration between psychedelic experimentalists Black Arches and poet/artist Sexton Ming.... opener Salty Sultan pairs languorous psychedelic noodle with Ming's surrealist utterances about bottled seawater and camels frying whole Jerrybagging and Bin Day become increasingly feverish, spitting out globules of abstract and hazy imagery. It's a perfect combination, the poet's briny abstractions fizzing across the Hastings outfit's psychedelic slow roll.

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· May 6

The sadness in its eyes...

Sad looking dog puppet/effigy at a May Day Jack in the Green parade

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· May 6

The couples you meet on the street.

Discarded sun costume and gull costume with wellies by a wall

Couple in green clothes and flowers with pink shoes/tights

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· May 6

A few shots of our townsfolk from yesterday's Jack-in-the-Green shenanigans (Hastings edition).

Woman pained green in a flowery bonnet, attended by other green women festooned in garlands of flowers

White bearded man in colorful garb in a may day parade

A woman with a staff accompanies a seated mask figure in a foliage-enhanced mobility scooter of some kind

Gareth E. Rees@garetherees· May 2

Sexton Ming (masked) and me (knob twiddling) on stage - come and check us out in our first ever Black Arches London gig in August, supporting the Japanese heavy psych band QUJAKU www.gigantic.com/other-side-p...