Liver & Lights No 65.  Clearance. 

(The view from Cressingham Gardens)

The images in this new Liver & Lights 

publication  are  of the 

Cressingham Gardens Estate 

and the  Boreraig cleared village on

 the  Isle of skye. 

The text  is of two  poems  comparing 

and contrasting  these two  places.  

The photographs are by 

Kathryn Round and  John Bently 

and the drawings are by 

John and Arthur Bently. 

(Arthur’s are generally the better ones…). 

Some of the drawings are of 

Arthur and his pals making 

hand made instruments, puppets 

and cardboard models of 

Cressingham  in order to perform 

at the two  fundraisiing 

benefits we have been involved 

with to raise money for the 

Save Cressingham fund. 

This book  is  a memorial to both 

those unforgettable events….

The first one, at 

Herne Hill Station Hall last 

November, also featured Kurdish 

Superstar Nawros Oramari, 

the amazing Bird Radio 

and the‘interesting’ bonesandtheaft. 

They  were devised  

and organised by  the indefatigable  Ken Jones….

Well done Ken! 

The second Happening in the Cressingham 

Rotunda in  on May 14th (

(This Saturday!!) 

featured Hippertronics and Black Rice  

alongside the Ashleys Fit Up 

puppet  show, and was the official 

launch point of this book, 

all proceeds from  which (after costs), 

we will donate to the fund to save 

Cressingham  Gardens Estate……..

 Copies  are A6  hardback, 100  copies only     

and are  £15.00  each,  available from  

Liver & Lights,  229 Railton rd, London, 

SE24 0LX  by cheque  payable to Liver & Lights.  

Or paypal  to hanksoake@gmail.com 

or   direct from bandcamp:

https://bonesandtheaft.bandcamp.com/merch/

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Not forgetting

....in two weeks time, 

our first Live gig

of 2022

Bonesandtheaft! 

plus  Bird Radio Live  

at  

The Norwood Book and Record Bar

20 Norwood high St, London, 

SE27 Saturday 28th May, 

7-11pm ( with Djs after ’til 1pm !!)

On our first lIve  shows of 2022,  

we will be  trotting out some 

of the old favourites, 

but also trying out some new stuff on you……

This  occasion will also   see the official launch of

Liver & Lights  No 65: 

The View from Cressingham  Gardens.. 

being a visual  and literary 

meditation on Clearances, 

(current and historical) with 50 % of  proceeds   

to be donated  to the  

Save Cressingham Gardens fund…

is an intimate venue in

 a former pub,  

right next to West Norwood Station..

You can also get there on a No. 68 bus…

Tickets ( and audience) are limited to 60 only, 

so snap them up in advance 

if you want to come, by emailing us  at 

hanksoake@gmail.com   

or by paypal to:    

paypal.me/bonesandtheaft  

(please remember to  press ‘send’ not ‘receive’…

as in you want to ’send’ me some money…….)   

….although I expect there will be some on the door.  

Not forgeting-

The Happening

John Bently,  Arthur  Bently,

Stella P, Grace Black  and others are performing at this

other benefit for Cressingham...a proper Old School

HAPPENING  in the

Cressingham  Rotunda Hall..

I will be reading new work,

being extracts from Liver & Lights No 65:

The Clearances

  

someone is  mic'ing up the building,

synthesizers will be unleashed...

It will be memorable...

 

 I have a new book out,

Illustrated by me:

a story I told my children,

or maybe

it was one

they told me...

anyway,  its published by

Child Be Strange Press

and you can buy it here:

buy it  here:

https://childbestrange.bigcartel.com/product/special-edition-lil-puddin-the-heists-of-dirty-st-as-told-by-ye-london-fog-illustrated-by-john

 

This was 

bonesandtheaft

 at the Station Hall Herne Hill

last Saturday  during the 

Save Cressingham Gdns

benefit...

We raised   £700  for the fighting fund...

they need more tho so you can still contribute here:

http://www.gofundme.com/savecressingham

also appearing was:

Nawros Oramari,

 Bird Radio,

and the 

Teeth Machine Orchestra

 

Liver & Lights No.s 63 & 64

 English Road Movies  Vols 5 & 6

Liver & Lights No. 63  A Lenzie of the Soul

Liver & Lights.No. 64 Kilfuckingmarnock

A few years ago I published a series  

of miniature books that 

celebrated  some of my deliciously 

small scale adventures on 

British  public transport. 

These were Road Movies so small they 

weren’t even films at all but 

very hand made books with wonky 

bindings and  gluey thumb-prints 

and rubber stamped 

illuminations…

adventures in Brixton, Bromley South, 

Kings Cross and Penge……

I have seen fit  to add a 

further two volumes to this series,

being Road Movies that  dont actually even 

involve any moving at all……….

Liver & Lights No. 63 

 

A Lenzie of the Soul

My mum lived in the  

Glasgow satelite townlet of Lenzie 

for  40 years, right next door  

to the railway station that would have 

carried her into the exciting metropolis 

of Glasgow in 9 minutes flat.

Terrified by the very rumour  of the 

jagged rock tunnel that lay in wait 

before any train  could emerge

  into Queen Street and crippled 

by claustrophobia, 

never once did she set foot on that platform,

 leaving her trapped 

in a 'Lenzie of the Soul’.

 Lavishly illustrated with   

some new drawings and 

some fragments of my mothers life…

Liver & Lights.No. 64

 

Killfuckingmarnock.

  

…is a commemoration of  British 

Saturday evenings 

watching the burbling teleprinter  spraying forth 

the football results  

whilst we hungry kids awaited  our tea 

and the coming of Dr Who. 

Oh, how were ‘transported’  to all those 

mysterious  placenames 

where the beautiful game was played, 

The Thistley Particks, 

the howling Rovers of Raith and, 

as my dad always amusingly pronounced it, 

Kilfuckingmarnock! 

Lovingly illustrated with 8 new 

rubber stamp prints. Eat Killy Pie!

I have made 50   copies of each Book.  

When they are gone, they are gone. 

They are  £15.00  including P&P…

if you want one you can  pay me  

by these methods  below:

Paypal  to  hanksoake@gmail.com

Bank Transfer to:  Liver & Lights.  

(Details on request.from hanksoake@gmail.com)

or Old Fashioned Cheque payable to:  

Liver & Lights  posted to 229 Railton Rd, London SE24 0LX

(but add £2.00   of you do, because thats what it 

costs me to pay one in now!)