First Impressions - Northern Textures

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First Impressions

Peter Humphreys

32 episodes

5 days ago

First Impressions blends storytelling, humour, interviews, music and more. It's a bit all over the place, but then so is its creator, award-winning writer and editor Peter Humphreys. He claims the aim of the podcast is ‘to spread a little mirth during these difficult times, with an emphasis on the arts and all things literary’, but it could just as easily be a case of bandwagon jumping in the name of shameless self-promotion. It wouldn’t be the first time…

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First Impressions - Northern Textures - Episode 30

First Impressions

29 minutes 21 seconds

3 weeks ago

First Impressions - Northern Textures - Episode 30

The first First Impressions of 2025 is a northern soundscape interwoven with spoken word pieces from me and original music from Bonbon Experiment and Ocean in a Bottle. It takes its title from Lancaster Textures, a photo-poetry collab from Brad Cheek launched at Assembly Arts earlier this year.

Most field recordings were made around the city or on counter-demonstrations elsewhere. It was good to dust off the Kenobi impression for the swear warning and work in a new, shortish (30-min) format. Sense that’s the way forward! More episodes in the pipeline. As this is another soundscape show, best listened to through headphones.

Link to Bonbon Experiment’s (Adrian’s) music: https://bonbonexperiment.bandcamp.com

Link to Ocean in a Bottle’s (Andy’s) music: https://oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com

Link to Brad’s photo/video work: https://bradverts.co.uk/multimedia/

Link to Adrian’s latest book: https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/loners-by-adrian-slatcher-with-images-by-steven-heaton

Link to Sleeve Notes project for record store day: https://sleeve-notes.bandcamp.com/album/sleeve-notes-new-writing-and-music-to-celebrate-record-store-day

Link to my latest books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Peter-Humphreys/author/B06ZZ1MKWQ

Andy’s Substack: https://andynartist.substack.com

Adrian’s Substack: https://adrianslatcher.substack.com