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Sailing tonight. Arriving 1st December @runninghorsenottingham 4pm. Support from E.R. Thorpe #tornsail

Sailing today. No rest for the wicked, or the very good. 2 weeks today. 4pm, @runninghorsenottingham

This is a still from a wonderful timeless film made by @robert_cook_369 for my friend E.R Thorpe for some new music she’ll release in the not too distant future. I’m lucky enough to have seen the film and heard the music - sang harmony for the recording actually - and it really is special and worthy of yours and ours fraught and hectic lifetime. It’s music for us, from the heart. There’s currently no label or website or distribution or mailing list - life is full on - but watch this space and I’ll try and spread the word from here. You can come and listen to Emma opening for @torn_sail on 1st December at the Running Horse, Nottingham. @e.r.thorpe @runninghorsenottingham #singersongwriter #nottinghamgigs #darkfolkmusic

Remixing. With a 1972 Vox AC30, naturally. A good year. #voxac30

Ten years since this scratchy old cosmic, kitchen-sink baby went out. Ten years. Fifteen since it was started. Playing one or two off this again. Remembering the words. Listening is a bit too much. Memories of old cold flats, taking way too much, hating the 9-5, a broken heart, maybe breaking one too. I was asked to re-record the songs with a band for the K7 label, or maybe it was Ever. I could’t face it - I just didn’t want to go down the mine again. The music is moody as ever, but life is happier. I’ve boxes of these albums lying around, not streaming it yet, more important things to do. It sold barely any on release - great review in the NME yearbook though. Send me an SAE.

Video still by Emma Reading for Scared Of My Heart by @torn_sail. @lemone_ranger

A Concert by Torn Sail. Our last for a while so we’re making it a family affair. Hope you can make it.

Playing a gig. All the hits. Last for a while. Running Horse. 1st December.

A year on, and made by humans, with these machines - the exquisitely beautiful Shrinkwrap remixes of the Torn Sail track Gains on Gains, is set for release on the Sun Sea Sound label later in the summer. #tornsail #shrinkwrap #studiolife @mighty_clouds_of_harmony @matthorobin @brown_fang @lee.horsley.18

@e.r.thorpe playing Tramlines, Sheffield. I’m happy to say Emma has agreed to let Bible, a track of hers I produced, feature on the forthcoming Torn Sail album. Photo by @buffaloghost.music #tornsail #erthorpe #huwcostin #buffaloghost

Inspiration. #marklanegan #tornsail #pomonabooks #books

Posted @withrepost • @huwcostin With Earth the Californian Love Dream circa 2001 at Gorthleck recording for the Pink Pink Skin single. Our sometime synth player Ben Smith invited us up. It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever played. He still records there - most recently working on the last Smith & Mudd album. I’m glad to say we’re all still in touch. Ben (aka BJ) brings his electronic wizardry, and Jonny his acoustic drum wizardry to the forthcoming Torn Sail album. Photo by Carrie Massey. @jonny8track @movedrill @koukoutsi #tornsail #earththecalifornianlovedream #gorthleck

This little picture of a prince, a princess is one of the few remaining treasures I have from my days working at the Cottesmore & Somerby Household Refuse Sites in the early ‘90’s. I wrote the germs of a lot of songs there in my cabin, out in the sticks, during 12 hour days in the snow and sun often alone, earning my pound an hour cash-in-hand with a generous psychedelic breakfast thrown in. The prince, the princess inspired Sadness All Over - a song from the new @torn_sail album. It’s just gone for mastering, and should be out in the world next year. We’ll see. #tornsail #sciencefriction #psychedelic #huwcostin @michaelchapmanguitar @e.r.thorpe @brown_fang @lee.horsley.18 @movedrill @henryclaude_ @lemone_ranger @jonny8track @joakim_boren @specialdesignstudiouk

The view from the sofa this evening. Tracking for Shrinkwrap. Balmy. Just what’s required. @brown_fang @henryclaude_ @matthorobin @mighty_clouds_of_harmony #tornsail #studiolife #huwcostin

Claremont 56 are repressing the first Torn Sail release. Birds is available to preorder at http://tornsail.bandcamp/album/birds #tornsail

@torn_sail @the_dorothy_pax Picture: @type_404 #tornsail

Vocals now recorded for Blood Drain Away, the last track still in the machine for the forthcoming Torn Sail record. I’ve been knocked out by Dean Geary’s words and delivery since playing a few gigs with him in the artists refuge that is the North Nottinghamshire town of Retford. I’m so pleased and grateful he let me use two of his recordings in the maelstrom of music the band and I have made - spoken word pieces - ‘Drive’ and ‘Steerpike Rainbow’. The moment I set his voice against the music was like a lightning strike. These moments are the moments a musician, a producer, an artist lives for. #tornsail #spokenword #swanyardstudios

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