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Saturday 19 August 2023

International Times: Pissabed Prophet review



My latest review published by International Times is on the first Pissabed Prophet album:

"Zany in parts, moving in others, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more unusual, inspired & profound album this year. ‘Pissabed Prophet’ will thrill, intrigue, amuse & inspire."

Matt Simpkins, who is one half of Pissabed Prophet with Ben Brown, was a curate in the Wickford and Runwell Team Ministry. He returned to St Andrew's Wickford in autumn 2022 to play a wonderful gig as Rev Simpkins and the Phantom Folk. He returns this year to play another gig at St Andrew's on Friday 17 November at 7.00 pm.     

See also my IT review of 'Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord', a book which derives from a 2017 symposium organised by the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art.

Several of my short stories have been published by International Times including three about Nicola Ravenscroft's EarthAngel sculptures (then called mudcubs), which we exhibited at St Andrew's Wickford last Autumn. The first story in the series is 'The Mudcubs and the O Zone holes'. The second is 'The Mudcubs and the Clean-Up King', and the third is 'The mudcubs and the Wall'.

My other short stories to have been published by International Times are 'The Black Rain', a story about the impact of violence in our media, 'The New Dark Ages', a story about principles and understandings that are gradually fading away from our modern societies, and 'The curious glasses', a story based on the butterfly effect.

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Pissabed Prophet - Evensong.

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