POP UP - Stroud Music & Culture Bookclub

05/05/2026

The Hurdy Stone in all its monolithic glory, now the 🏗️ has been taken away. .finer 🗿🟢☄️⏳

03/05/2026

30/04/2026

Printed programme is in. Everything in yellow 🌝💛🌕 is FREE ⛓️‍💥 and open to all.
morris .hudson_

See you there.

30/04/2026

activity

1/, 4/, 8/, 9/ talks Wild Folk, her collab with . Sun 2pm

2/ on Alan Garner, including screening of The Owl Service Ep.1. Sat 2pm

3/ Alan Garner inspired group exhibition incl Sèan Vicary, curated by . Free all weekend

5/ Tracing the Pattern - Alan Garner across Page, Screen & Landscape with

6/ U’s Archenfield project live. Sat & Sun 5pm (see below >)

7/ Awakening Blodeuwedd - Alan Garner inspired Owl Service ceramics workshops. Fri & Sat Sign up

More on U Archenfield: As a prolific digger, archivist and collagist, U’s music projects evolve alongside an expansive accumulation of visual material, including video, books, films, texts, and other historical documents. This research is intrinsically connected to the songs, which operate according to specific logics and conceptual reference points.

To make ARCHENFIELD, U mined a wealth of recorded material relevant to a specific intersection of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, an area once known as Archenfield. With a nod to traditional music, he creates beautifully atmospheric sound pieces comprised of painstakingly researched samples to create a stirring reflection on local history and broader themes of how we interact, or even fail to interact, with English folklore today.

U is performing 2 x different immersive AV sets for Neoancients (2 + 3rd May) consisting of music from the ARCHENFIELD LP as well as unreleased material from an upcoming companion project.
“...there is something universal about U’s vision. It acts as a reminder that we are all situated in history, and exist in a place whose story is bigger and longer-lived than any individual.” KLOF magazine
“Archenfield, a deeply immersive, occasionally unsettling but frequently extremely beautiful collage of electronic music, found sound, brass, piano, organ and snippets from films, television programmes and YouTube videos” The Quietus

28/04/2026

27/04/2026

MuMufication van coming to NeoAncients with the surely irresistible offer, “Buy now, die later” +++ Ways with Weirds Tale of the Peoples Pyramid w +++ the Gurdy/Hurdy Stones “leyline activation films” marking the latest release from The Standing Stones (aka ) amazing new second single Twa Sisters….and don’t forget The Attempted Standing of the Hurdy Stone. Phew! “Lunatronix WTF is it?”

25/04/2026

Just some of the Outdoors at NeoAncients offerings .morris Triumph of Art 4.30pm Sat + Maypole with 1pm Sat + all weekend incl at 4pm Sun + 2pm Sun + all weekend

23/04/2026

Meg 2: The Tump - or rather two of the most respected authorities on the space between archeology and folklore in a rare coming together. Megalithic Imperative is the new anthology of the hugely influential Third Stone journal(1994 - 2003), while Megalithic Portal is a worldwide online database of ancient sites, with tens of thousands of open source listings, helmed by editor Andy Burnham. . Hosted by

21/04/2026

Prof Ronald Hutton ‘On Pan’. The English historian specialising in early modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian religion, and modern paganism, talks things both ancient and neo on the Greek god of the wild, nature and rustic music. Accompanied by images from whose “Panic: Visions of the Horned God in the English Country Garden“ is on show across the festival.