Coney Island Sound
@coneyislandsound
Music Making. Portstewart via Belfast, Hull, Gateshead & North Shields. Electronic Music/Archiving/The Sea. www.coneyislandsound.com or for more
C'est Fin! The Flaming Lips in a schoolyard in Hull city centre....
Since it's Yorkshire Day, some from the cloud-drive. Varying cameras/phones....mix of photos from the flickr old-days
Luckily managed to nab a copy of @simonreynolds.bsky.social Still In a Dream with the fanzine.....also some of this years books and the widening Bowie shelf.
His book from 1929 is up on archive.org too if you fancy a read. archive.org/details/char...
He was an ahead of his time naturalist who toured America in his carved out redwood tree/automobile educating and performing. He also had a recording career impersonating many bird calls and releasing 78s alone and more musically with Alma Gluck: archive.org/details/Alma...
Apparently taken OTD 2010. A battered suitcase of tapes for sampling. I still have them in the loft somewhere. This was in Gateshead when i lived by the Staiths/Tyne. We had large communal bins & I remember binning the suitcase full of junk when I moved, felt like dumping a body....
Merry Christmas Folks have a wonderful day: soundcloud.com/coneyislands...
No tree this year but the Ladderax is the Christmas miracle from home. Books! Apparently i'd climb myself upright using the drawer handles (as a child)... "Ulster Says Noel" card by @jamesashestudio.com First Fred Perry, terrible hair...final year primary school pic found in exercise book....
Colourfully, a very specific vein of Belfast club flyers circa 95/96. Weatherall, Slam, Darren Emerson, The Orb, Coldcut, David Holmes' various Art College nights post EPI. Autechre, Surgeon and Some early Big Beat, Ed Rush and Photek. Quite a good run, i was at most of these.
Standing in a puddle in Portballintrae before the storm. A memorial to the Girona, Spanish Armada ship wrecked with only 9 survivors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girona_... Vaguely remember it on bank notes here.
@moonbuilding.bsky.social Mag arrival day. Summer 2025 still available and past issue bundles at: moonbuilding.bandcamp.com/album/moonbu...
A couple of San Francisco & Boston Vignette snaps to wrap up the thread. Short trip to California got me the "Kiss and Fly" for a song title: coneyislandsound.bandcamp.com/track/kiss-a... Piano, woodwind and theremin on that one..
Power plant cricket, Bridington model village, Sunk Island....