Penrhyn Castle
It is a grotesque representation of power. The shouting of it from castellated rooftops, the feel of it on the backs of slaves and the ultimate poverty of its exercise…
What's going through my mind? Things I don't expect. There is no water in the dressing room but there are dummy heads, for wigs, for cabaret shows, for holidaymakers. The…
Cutting It In The Modern Game
In the early 60s after a bad knee injury, my Dad's Bangor City career had been cut short and although he returned to play for Bethesda Athletic at a lower…
Dementia. Part 1. The Copper Thief.
The tracks are there but the train cannot travel, The copper thief has struck And the service will unravel. The engine is poised but it must stand still, The signals…
The Church Bell
The muffled church bell is forlorn. A dead ringer in the crow-cawed dawn. It used to summon, now it pleads But a thousand other promises Will meet their Sunday needs.…
Thief – In Memorial
In 1997 JUMP toured the UK supporting FISH on his Sunsets on Empire Tour. In the course of those gigs, we played Blackwood Miners Institute and a rumbustious night was…
Poles Apart – Kitty Velour and the road to Barry Town 9/12/17
Prologue: Imagine what the recreation facility for the workers at a windswept secret Soviet weapons research institute looks like, thirty years after a chemical leak forced its closure. Imagine its…
The Day Malcolm Jumped off Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock is still there. It would be. It is an outcrop of etched Pre-Cambrian strata and thus, as long as it avoids sticks of dynamite in the hands of…
In the flesh - thoughts. Invisible, infinite, whirring. This is life. Of course there is a God If we think there is. Of course the cause is just If we…
The clock sits on its third shelf at the back of my lean-to. It is not allowed in the house. It acquired woodworm some time ago when it sat on…
There are cuckoos in Croesor And their call is distinctive. They live in the nests of others. One evening we walked up the valley And we heard the sound. We…
I Don't Belong
There's a great line in the Reid and Shamblin song that Bonnie Raitt made a hit. The song is called 'I Can't Make You Love Me' and it's about falling…
Public Service Broadcasting – People Will Always Need Music
I went to see Public Service Broadcasting in Bangor. Pontio is an excellent venue, although next to it stands the most utterly ridiculous 'thing' anyone has ever had the temerity…
The audio is from the album Something of the Night which is available for purchase and download on Bandcamp. Filmed on location in North Wales, Aylesbury Limelight Theatre, and JUMP's…
Down Three Times
Down Three Times is from The Beachcomber - this album is available on Bandcamp. The film footage is from Abererch beach and Pwllheli harbour. Concert footage from Hobble on the…