Richard Rees-Jones
@viennesewaltz.bsky.social
Occasional music blogger. Interested in prog rock, folk rock, free jazz & improv, noise, experimental & avant-garde classical.
Author of 'Peter Hammill On Track: Every Album, Every Song' (Sonicbond, 2022)
Substack: viennesewaltz.substack.com
Author of 'Peter Hammill On Track: Every Album, Every Song' (Sonicbond, 2022)
Substack: viennesewaltz.substack.com
The Formless Irregular, a massive and eyebrow-raising book collecting the visual art of Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton, just landed. I've kind of lost touch with NWW's output in recent years, so this looks like the perfect opportunity to get reacquainted.
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Formless Irregular, a massive and eyebrow-raising book collecting the visual art of Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton, just landed. I've kind of lost touch with NWW's output in recent years, so this looks like the perfect opportunity to get reacquainted.
New Necks album is really hitting the spot today. Four long tracks, all of them keepers but this one is the highlight for me.
October 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New Necks album is really hitting the spot today. Four long tracks, all of them keepers but this one is the highlight for me.
#cassunday Cultural Amnesia, Did You Hear The Music (2025) – great, quirky post-punk electronic songs. Limited run of 100 copies, only a few left so don't sleep if you want one of these.
October 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#cassunday Cultural Amnesia, Did You Hear The Music (2025) – great, quirky post-punk electronic songs. Limited run of 100 copies, only a few left so don't sleep if you want one of these.
More typos, and – for good measure – one in the very first word of the (excellent) book that comes with the box set.
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
More typos, and – for good measure – one in the very first word of the (excellent) book that comes with the box set.
So many inexcusable typos and howlers on the outer box of the new Peter Hammill box set. Clearly this wasn't checked by a fan (i.e. me) or they would never have slipped through. These detract from an otherwise superb package. Universal (or PH himself!) should employ me as a proof-reader next time.
October 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
So many inexcusable typos and howlers on the outer box of the new Peter Hammill box set. Clearly this wasn't checked by a fan (i.e. me) or they would never have slipped through. These detract from an otherwise superb package. Universal (or PH himself!) should employ me as a proof-reader next time.
And for good measure, here's another one in the very first word of the (excellent) book that comes with the box set:
October 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
And for good measure, here's another one in the very first word of the (excellent) book that comes with the box set:
Another extraordinary concert tonight by Peter Hammill at the Royal Festival Hall. Such riveting power, passion and intensity.
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Another extraordinary concert tonight by Peter Hammill at the Royal Festival Hall. Such riveting power, passion and intensity.
Turn around from the Harrison family grave and you'll see the city of Leeds in the distance. "Find the beef, the beer, the bread, then look behind."
October 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Turn around from the Harrison family grave and you'll see the city of Leeds in the distance. "Find the beef, the beer, the bread, then look behind."
No graffiti on the Harrison family grave, but there was on some other graves.
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
No graffiti on the Harrison family grave, but there was on some other graves.
Turn around from the grave and you see the city of Leeds. "Find the beef, the beer, the bread, then look behind."
October 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Turn around from the grave and you see the city of Leeds. "Find the beef, the beer, the bread, then look behind."
I couldn't find Byron the tanner, but I found Wordsworth who built church organs.
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I couldn't find Byron the tanner, but I found Wordsworth who built church organs.
Quite moving to find a space on one side of the grave for his 'chiselled epitaph' to be added.
October 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Quite moving to find a space on one side of the grave for his 'chiselled epitaph' to be added.
Went on a pilgrimage to Holbeck cemetery in Beeston, Leeds, to find Tony Harrison's family grave as mentioned in 'v.' He was right – I did have to search quite hard. But I found it.
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Went on a pilgrimage to Holbeck cemetery in Beeston, Leeds, to find Tony Harrison's family grave as mentioned in 'v.' He was right – I did have to search quite hard. But I found it.
I couldn't find Byron the tanner, but I did find Wordsworth who built church organs.
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I couldn't find Byron the tanner, but I did find Wordsworth who built church organs.
Very moving to find a space on one side of the grave for his 'chiselled epitaph' to be added.
October 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Very moving to find a space on one side of the grave for his 'chiselled epitaph' to be added.
My first Peter Hammill concert in eight years tonight in Manchester. He's still as brave, gripping and emotionally acute as ever. Highlights were The Siren Song, The Lie and a desolate A Way Out.
October 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
My first Peter Hammill concert in eight years tonight in Manchester. He's still as brave, gripping and emotionally acute as ever. Highlights were The Siren Song, The Lie and a desolate A Way Out.
I don't think he remembered me from that merch table in Salisbury. I went to the NT bookshop and bought the text of The Mysteries. I went up to him later and he signed it for me. RIP TH, you changed the way I thought about poetry, language, class and history forever.
September 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I don't think he remembered me from that merch table in Salisbury. I went to the NT bookshop and bought the text of The Mysteries. I went up to him later and he signed it for me. RIP TH, you changed the way I thought about poetry, language, class and history forever.
This photo of Philip Glass, critic John Rockwell, Brian Eno, musician Leroy Jenkins and Robert Fripp has been doing the rounds on Facebook. It was apparently taken at The Kitchen in NYC in 1979 and is obviously some kind of panel discussion, but no-one seems to know what the occasion was.
September 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This photo of Philip Glass, critic John Rockwell, Brian Eno, musician Leroy Jenkins and Robert Fripp has been doing the rounds on Facebook. It was apparently taken at The Kitchen in NYC in 1979 and is obviously some kind of panel discussion, but no-one seems to know what the occasion was.
Happy 90th birthday to Arvo Pärt (pronounced like parrot without the O, not like paert). Very happy to get this signed edition a while back.
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Happy 90th birthday to Arvo Pärt (pronounced like parrot without the O, not like paert). Very happy to get this signed edition a while back.
#cassunday Here's the cassette included with the monumental :zoviet*france: @zovietfrance.org
Châsse ∴ 34CD box set on Vinyl on Demand.
Châsse ∴ 34CD box set on Vinyl on Demand.
September 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
#cassunday Here's the cassette included with the monumental :zoviet*france: @zovietfrance.org
Châsse ∴ 34CD box set on Vinyl on Demand.
Châsse ∴ 34CD box set on Vinyl on Demand.
New Les Rallizes Dénudés archival live release from 1976 is hitting the spot today. A year out from the epochal '77 Live recording, same line-up but sounding quite different, cleaner and proggier but just as aggressive. Sound quality is hit and miss but it's a miracle this even exists.
August 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New Les Rallizes Dénudés archival live release from 1976 is hitting the spot today. A year out from the epochal '77 Live recording, same line-up but sounding quite different, cleaner and proggier but just as aggressive. Sound quality is hit and miss but it's a miracle this even exists.
Second-hand bookshop swoop in Brighton last week yielded this fine crop of slim volumes. In the battle of the 'H' poets you can keep your Hughes and Heaney. It's Harrison and Hill that speak to me.
August 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Second-hand bookshop swoop in Brighton last week yielded this fine crop of slim volumes. In the battle of the 'H' poets you can keep your Hughes and Heaney. It's Harrison and Hill that speak to me.
Barbara Hepworth's 'Construction (Crucifixion)' at Salisbury Cathedral. When I was a pompous teenager I found this in a sorry state in a neglected corner of the Close and wrote to the Salisbury Journal to that effect. (1/2)
August 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Barbara Hepworth's 'Construction (Crucifixion)' at Salisbury Cathedral. When I was a pompous teenager I found this in a sorry state in a neglected corner of the Close and wrote to the Salisbury Journal to that effect. (1/2)