Here, I take a deeper look at the Decent Land project. What are my responsibilities as the Art Director, and how do they tie in to my lore? — My latest novel — A Decent Land — is an experimental legendarium of alien flora and fauna. But why? What’s it all for? My novel, and podcast series, is just one part of a huge NFT art project, which I’m directing (from the creative side). Please don’t kneejerk! We all…

It’s been a busy month. My life has gone through a few big changes. But Daisy remains a doggy constant, and this is what we’ve been up to! — April of 2022 turned out to be one hell of a month for me. I didn’t get any chance to breathe throughout it. I started a new and extremely demanding job, went from courting to a full-blown relationship and have had a number of pressing household tasks to munch…

I’m honoured to have been interviewed by Regina Clarke. It’s my first in-depth talk like this; I hope you enjoy learning more about me! — I’m very proud to present my first ever interview! Lee David Tyrrell — Interview Fiction writer, mostly attracted to sci-fi and strange, experimental tangents, and a music journalist.medium.com I’ve spent the past five years or so interviewing other people for my own articles and podcasts, and never in that time have I had the tables turned on me…

A brief conversation with Sean Tillmann, the man behind Har Mar Superstar. — This old article — from 2017 — ties in to a podcast I recorded with Sean Tillmann, available here. Har Mar Superstar is the filter through which Sean Tillmann expresses his art. Across two decades of activity, Tillmann has brought immense integrity to a constantly evolving catalogue. Nowhere is this…

First Impressions of Yowunas Maias — We landed in the ocean, a few miles south-west of the Yowunas Maias mainland. It’s gorgeous down there, but we’re not equipped to compile a full report of our findings. The waters teem with life, and our biologists were profoundly annoyed when I ordered them onto land. Initial observations by…

Arrival — It was the binary star that attracted our ship. Its perpendicular twirls winked from a cosmic horizon. Then, our ark was on its five-hundredth generation (or somewhere thereabouts). Now we’re nearing six-hundred — a milestone — and the system is closer in reach. We sucked the sap of innumerable suns…

A Cumbrian Heart — The stage at The Coach House is not ostentatious. It’s little more than a raised platform, scarcely large enough for a quad of performers. There’s a house drum kit stored upon it, with battered cymbals and slack, loose toms. The lighting rig that stands like a monument — arcing over…

A conversation with a true comedy legend, David Kear; best known for his work as Charlie Chuck, and alongside Vic & Bob as Uncle Peter. — David Kear is a remarkably unique voice in British comedy. His principle character, Charlie Chuck, is an unpredictable powder-keg of visceral joy. Often putting a dark twirl on commonplace Northern activities, his unhinged persona found laughs from discomfort, years before better-known contemporaries. In the early 90s, Kear began to accrue…

Three Twittles for Little Brighton — From the archives of Lauma Tirela, dated 2145. A short appendix to a larger fiction, available here in full. My husband and I arrived in Little Brighton just a week ago, after taking the A1/M1 trail all the way down from the Isle of Humberside. It was a harrowing journey…