If there’s one thing that Matt Berry’s ‘The Badger’s Wake’ (available on the the excellent album ‘Witchazel’) has been helping me think about, it’s how deeply English psychedelia is rooted in nostalgia. From Richard Dadd on, it’s been about looking backwards as much as forwards. Again and again, key visionaries have gone diving intoContinue reading “Psychedelia, empire and Matt Berry’s badger”
Category Archives: Fair Folk
On Britishness
I recently took part in the BSFA’s British Science Fiction & Fantasy survey, which led to the publication of a rather nifty little book comparing genre self-perception now and 20 years ago – more details here. The book was edited by Niall Harrison and Paul Kincaid; they’ve done an excellent job of picking out interestingContinue reading “On Britishness”
Fairy mirrors, other worlds
Chatting to Mark of Strange Attractor the other day about the similarities between fairy encounter / abduction experiences in the past and UFO encounter / abduction experiences today (he’s just been in the States, interviewing UFO folk for his upcoming documentary). Thinking about it, it’s also interesting to compare classic flying saucer shapes with tumuliContinue reading “Fairy mirrors, other worlds”