Matthew Shaw @apollolaan Twitter profile

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Julian Cope & Stewart Lee at Avebury

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

“I live in a visionary state … I’m a wild beast’ Julian Cope.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Thank you all for your kindness and love. 🙏 Here I am a week ago at Avebury while waiting for a hospital bed to become available. I am now being well looked after and though the road ahead is long it is the road I have to walk.

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@apollolaan

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The Modern Antiquarian. The masterpiece that spawned such an incredible community with a love of ancient sites. If you don’t have a copy of Cope’s Notes yet then I highly recommend you head over to Head Heritage and get a copy while you can @JulianHCope

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@apollolaan

7 months

“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end. A time that does not cleave the day with rush hours, lunch breaks, the last bus home. As you walk in the garden you pass into this time”

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Record Store Day is harming, not helping, independent music shops like mine

Record Store Day is harming, not helping, independent music shops like mine

Supply chain chaos and a worldwide vinyl shortage means the annual event that once saved record shops from extinction has lost its way

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

Avebury #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

Stonehenge winter solstice sunrise #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

50 looks like this

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Derek Jarman and friends in Dungeness – unseen pictures

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

Love this Fuzzy Felt Julian Cope at Avebury by @morrow_lucy as requested by @the_stone_club

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

My dreams take me out among the stones, waking the land. Today is day ten in hospital. Yesterday I had a couple of hours without infusions and so no drip. I left the room for the first time since I arrived and walked outside. 1/2

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Ithell Colquhoun in her garden

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Trethevy Quoit #TombTuesday 📷 my own

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Andrew Weatherall & @reversediorama at the launch night for This Is Memorial Device at @thesocial an unforgettable night and what a set by Andrew! So much joy. I’ve been playing Qualia all day

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

As Above, So Below.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

Re-visiting the Gurdy stone one year on. Another tremendous @tweetbytheriver day out. Thank you @Mathew__Clayton for a belter of a day. #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 years

Filming today with @ShaunryderX & @johnrobb77 for @LushDigitalHQ #lush #blackgrape #shaunryder #johnrobb

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Portrait of the Monument Maker @reversediorama

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Keeping that Avebury energy close to my heart

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Carwynnen Quoit #TombTuesday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

May Day. A third loading dose of Infliximab today. A journey started on the Equinox, creating a different view of the cycle of regeneration. Wishing you all a happy May Day and see you all soon 🏥🌿💚

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Duloe Stone Circle #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

John Piper, Henley 1945 standing at gate to his house 📷 Bill Brandt

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

“It was on 24 June 1990 that, quite accidentally, I happened on Derek Jarman’s garden. Five of us – Beth Chatto being the picnic maker – plus my two dachshunds, spent this sunny day on the beach at Dungeness” Christopher Lloyd 📷 by Howard Sooley

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Duloe Stone Circle #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Today I walked to Southampton Common from the hospital and while well there we came across this boundary stone. Back in my room now having enjoyed some sunshine, tees and stones

Stone Club

@the_stone_club

7 months

Who has been out visiting stones this weekend? Where did you go? What did you see? Here is @apollolaan with the Hode Cross Stone this afternoon.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

Moments with Brian Catling

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Boscawen-Un 📷 by yours truly #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

Men Gurta #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Brian Catling at Wayland's Smithy

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

About last night, what a performance

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE (On tap) @reversediorama @VerdantBrew @WhiteRabbitBks @Verdant_Taproom @memorialdevice @BrewingFolk

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

4 years

Thanks to ⁦ @Hanpeel ⁩ for playing me on Night Tracks last night. It is the most comforting and useful of all radio programmes. Please do listen to these shows, they Soothe, relax and will also turn you on to new and beautiful sounds. Listen again ⁦

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Derek Jarman at Prospect Cottage

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Reading this again, 25 years after I last read it. It’s as good as I remember it being.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

10 months

West Kennet Long barrow #TombTuesday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Tregeseal Stone Circle⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ Also known as:⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Tregeseal Dancing Stones⁣⁣⁣ Nine Maidens (Tregeseal)⁣⁣⁣ Merry Maidens (Tregeseal)⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

10 months

Ty Mawr Bronze Age Standing Stone Ynys Môn / the Isle of Anglesey #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Wishing you all a very happy Spring Equinox. Photo of The Druid Order at Tower Hill, Spring 2015.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

“Jarman was very interested in the traditions and mythology around plants. He noted that almost all the plants growing abundantly on the beach were referenced in folklore or old herbals”

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

4 years

Bowie and a very different Schnieder. Love this one too. Also if I had loads more time I would be digging into the fruits contained within this book.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

10 months

Incredibly sad news here, I will miss Benjamin and his incredible enthusiasm and generosity, his poetry, his power, his artistry and teachings. One of the sweetest people I have ever worked with.

Shakespeare&Company

@Shakespeare_Co

10 months

Such sad news. Our condolences to all who knew and loved Benjamin Zephaniah.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

1 year

Looking forward to contributing to the Histories & Hauntings season @swedenborghouse for an evening of screenings and readings with Claudia Barton, Renchi Bicknell, Jack Catling, Allen Fisher, Andrew Kötting, myself and Iain Sinclair. Tickets

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

The Cuckoo Stone

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

That after we are gone and the land is gone, the molten core shrugged as if to a feather off will unhitch their roots and fall through the illimitable night without the faintest recall of resting before our little bones for a bit of a day

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

At Winterbourne Abbas, four or five miles from Dorchester, is a small circle called the "Nine stones," 28 or 30 feet in diameter (not in height as stated by the Post Office Directory) A. L. Lewis #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

Pulling out some records for the next @the_stone_club night @thesocial on December 5th. @KLF_Updates @KLF_Online

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Day 18 in hospital today. Slow steady progress. Another few weeks to go here and a long road ahead but positivity still reigns! Thank you @LallyMacBeth for arranging this go fund me. @theQuietus

A helping hand for Matthew Shaw, organized by Diana MacBeth

Hello! Lally here from Stone Club, my fellow Stone Club co-founder Matthew is poorly… Diana MacBeth needs your support for A helping hand for Matthew Shaw

www.gofundme.com

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Gently exploring West Kennett avenue

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 years

Here it is @johnrobb77 in conversation with @Beathhigh

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

A vintage photograph of the Saxon Crosses in Sandbach

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Sunken Nightfall Poem by B. Catling, read by Shirley Collins. Music Cyclic Song from my album ‘Among the never setting stars’. Filmed at Wayland’s Smithy. #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

11 months

Cheese-rolling, straw bears and weird rituals galore: one man’s mission to record all of British folklore

Cheese-rolling, straw bears and weird rituals galore: one man’s mission to record all of British...

A treasure trove devoted to folk traditions has been amassed by one man. Now a campaign hopes to give it a proper home

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

10 months

Happy Winter Solstice

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Representing @memorialdevice #MDANT

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

This Sunday @shirleyeCollins @BrianCatling & I (featuring some very special voices) have a special preview for you of Crowlink. Tickets from @BarbicanCentre

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Fresh spring air. Walking around cathedrals at Easter.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

‘Haunting and poignant’: long-lost mass by Shirley Collins’ sister Dolly finally makes its debut | Classical music | The Guardian

‘Haunting and poignant’: long-lost mass by Shirley Collins’ sister Dolly finally makes its debut

A school-gate chat led to the rediscovery of the late composer Dolly Collins’ Missa Humana, as her folk star sister, the writer Maureen Duffy and medieval academic Lawrence Warner explain

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Infliximab time! The road to recovery. A good book helps to pass the time, and brother. do. you. love. me. Is a very good book indeed @LittleToller #savethenhs

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

I have a new album out on the Equinox. The first track on the album 'A Sea of still dreams' will premiere alongside the film I made to accompany it at 10am this morning

A Sea of still dreams

Film and Music by Matthew Shaw.A Sea of still dreams is from the album The Still Silence at the Centre. Available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.htt...

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Some words on Derek Jarman, Ithell Colquhoun & Barbara Hepworth, stones, landscape and gardens for bloom 🌱🌿🌻🌺🌹

Stone Club

@the_stone_club

6 months

We have written for the new issue of bloom about stones, landscape & gardens. Taking in Derek Jarman, Ithell Colquhoun & Barbara Hepworth along the way.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Barbara Hepworth

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

My first book of poetry is ten years old this year. Available again now in 2024

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing a very joyful conversation between Howard Sooley & Alasdair Moore about Prospect Cottage, Derek Jarman & @GreatDixter at The Spring Flower Show. Seeing & hearing about how the garden in Dungeness began and developed was very special indeed.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Liminal days and nights. This film means a lot to me. A sadly departed friend, Brian has been on my mind a lot these past days. Here he is in rude health, brimming with life and wisdom.

Stone Club

@the_stone_club

7 months

Our film recommendation for March is all about the artist Brian Catling. Not only does it feature Wayland's Smithy & poems about stones it also delves deep into his trilogy of groundbreaking novels The Vorrh. The Cast Squid of a Lost Character.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

The Nine Maidens (Troon) #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Barbara Hepworth Two Figures (1968) Today with a third figure betwixt (me)

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

A new film I made from visits to Avebury between July last year and last weekend.

Stone Club

@the_stone_club

7 months

Eternity and a day, a new film featuring the stones of Avebury, West Kennet Long barrow and the graveyard in Avebury.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

‘The strings were the tension I felt between myself and the sea, the wind or the hills.’ Barbara Hepworth

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

4 years

⁦ @thesociallondon ⁩ Love, Love, love

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

A new playlist I made in hospital to transport me away from the beeps, alarms and general hospital hum into a different, more peaceful place. This helped along with a stack of books and a sketchpad…

Stone Club

@the_stone_club

7 months

A new deeply ambient playlist from @apollolaan This one is perfect on waking up, for inducing dreams on falling asleep or diverting from stressful situations, beeps and alarms. Thoroughly tested this past week!

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@apollolaan

5 years

Lush to shut down all stores and operations, asking 5000+ employees to march for climate crisis - Upworthy

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

Enjoying this a great deal @amalexathorn @KJSoar

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Sea Shore and Bronze Post by Derek Jarman

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 years

Seeing copies 'How to stop time' by @matthaig1 everywhere I go. Great to see such a great novel doing so well

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

I’ve written about a pilgrimage to Iona today for @tweetbytheriver An exceptionally memorable journey of hundreds of miles in very good company

Caught by the River

@tweetbytheriver

6 months

'There is a mystery that makes the place all the more interesting, the endless knot with strands unfurled as clues to an elusive past.' Along with fellow members of The Druid Order, @apollolaan makes a 556-mile pilgrimage to the Island of Iona

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Setting up

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

4 years

Cheers @thesociallondon

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

1 year

An incredible show by GLOK @Andybebop last night at @Verdant_Taproom with amazing sound and stunning visuals by @inner_strings

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Very happy indeed to say that I’m now being represented by @natgalustian at @CCLAgents exciting times ahead!

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

8 months

"Beneath the tyres of our cars lie earlier foundations, stories, objects and lives lived, sped over, occluded with tarmac, cat’s eyes and white lines." Thank you @tweetbytheriver for publishing this piece today 🌿🪨🛣️

Caught by the River

@tweetbytheriver

8 months

'Beneath the tyres of our cars lie earlier foundations, stories, objects and lives lived, sped over, occluded with tarmac, cat’s eyes and white lines.' Ancient Pathways and Modern Roads: @apollolaan finds deep time and hidden treasure just off the A35

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Crowlink 1.916 @shirleyeCollins @Hanpeel @jeremydeller @LallyMacBeth @BZephaniah @wishimage @missbarton @zakiasewell @markfrymusic @samleesong and more… @CharlestonTrust installation July 31st & August 1st 2021

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

6 months

Paul Nash grew angry at war, the glory of its advertisement, and the reality of its environment. #NoMoreWars

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 months

A wonderful quiet moment between worlds

Stone Club

@the_stone_club

7 months

Here is @apollolaan beneath the trees at Avebury Henge last weekend

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

A fun night interviewing @RoseBoyt @FancyEliza & @reversediorama at @Tate Modern last night. Thanks to everyone for coming & to @VerdantBrew @TheBeakBrewery @trackbrewco @FaberBooks @picadorbooks @WhiteRabbitBks for making it happen

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

1 year

Unforgettable, magical and chaotic times with the brilliant Mark Stewart .

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@apollolaan

6 months

Seaweed and Lichen, South Cornwall, 1943 John Piper

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Very proud to announce this ep with @shirleyeCollins on @Dominorecordco

Shirley Collins

@shirleyeCollins

3 years

I am pleased to announce a new EP, 'Crowlink', due out digitally on 30th July. 'Crowlink' is named after a hamlet in the Seven Sisters. It picks up from the finale of 'Heart's Ease' and is a collection of songs sung by me and featuring field recordings by @apollolaan .

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

Love and light to Simon Emmerson, safe travels until we meet again.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

The Wad dancing in Helston yesterday evening

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

7 years

Just interviewed @bruceparry with @charliemoores about his important new film 'Tawai: a voice from the forest', a must see this autumn.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

It’s #WorldRewildingDay & we handed out wildflower seeds from @HeliganGardens in celebration of the spring in Jamie Reid’s OVA. Processed with @pillarsofwonder and dedicated it all to Simon Emmerson @afrocelt

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Shirley Collins announces Crowlink EP for July 30th

FrontView Magazine

Shirley Collins released the excellent Heart’s Ease last year; her sec

www.frontview-magazine.be

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 years

On the Solstice night, sonically I shall be in good company in Waltham Forest @darkoutside thanks for including me

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

2 years

I have loved Spacemen 3 as long as I can remember and so was excited when @thedavidbarker asked me to choose a song to cover for @glassmodern1 So here we are, with a video featuring a lot of ancient stones.

Glass Modern

@glassmodern1

2 years

Matthew Shaw's version of Spacemen 3's version of 'Mary Anne' from Glass Remade/Remodelled @glassmodern2 @apollolaan @davidjhaskins @TheLilacTime @LukeHaines_News @SpacemenP @Ben_Edge_Art @wishimage

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

5 months

Jack Skeaping was a fine musician. Here he plays the accordion, while Barbara Hepworth accompanies him.

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

1 year

Chatting Foghorns with @JenniferLAllan Also rum music and the importance of underground culture, saving @theQuietus and the magic of Late Junction. Read Jennifer Lucy Allan! @WhiteRabbitBks Podcast soon on @BrewingFolk @VerdantBrew

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Matthew Shaw

@apollolaan

3 years

Everything I ever uploaded to bandcamp is back until the 31st December with 70% off. Then all but a few will be gone again

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