The book is now available. Go to www.candle-ends.com if you'd like to buy it (you'll be redirected to a secure site). Or https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071YFPS3G for an e-book version.

Thanks!

The Druid of Royal Oak by Neil Paananen

Here's the book cover. Hopefully I can get this site up and running soon. The book will be available April 22nd!

New podcast! Plus some music to go with . . . the audio of the podcast??

Ok that doesn't make much sense. But there's a new episode of my podcast "Hunting for Candle-Ends" up. Mike and I discuss the genre of "Folk Horor." Specifically, British folk horror of the 70s, such as The Wicker Man, Children of the Stones, Blood on Satan's Claw, Penda's Fen and The Owl Service! You can hear it on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/candle-ends/hunting-for-candle-ends-episode-15-folk-horror-pt-1

My show "Boojum Pudding" gradually became focused more and more on 70s British music as summer 2015 went on. The shows are interesting to me in retrospect because I was buzzing around the music genre of "hauntology" and the film/televsion genre of "folk horror" while lacking the term or enough knowledge to know exactly what I was looking for as far as music to play. For one show I spent a long while thinking about my love of British 70s children's shows such as Tomorrow People and Doctor Who and I was also thinking about the band Boards of Canada -- what was their sound? How does it really tie into the 70s science fiction? I'm sure BBC Radiophonic workshop is related, but how? Are there any other bands like Boards of Canada -- I googled it and couldn't find anything. Now I know that what I was looking for was the genre of "hauntology" but I had no clue at the time what that was.

For my August 29 show I had just rediscovered the 1973 movie The Wicker Man and was finding the similarities between folk music, the wicker man and children of the stones and trying to put my finger on what was special about it. This was before I'd heard of "folk horror" or realized it was a thing. Mostly I focused on the pagan part of this music for this show which you can hear below. There's some additional stuff at the beginning, please be patient.

What I Did on My Boojummer Vacation

This is technically not my last show of the summer, but next week I'll have a special guest who's a veritable EXPERT on a variety of music and so I'm going to be handing the reins over to him.

So tonight I'm going to do a bit of a BEST OF Boojum Pudding this summer, playing an exemplary song from each of the (14?) shows first hours. During the second hour I'll play my top tracks of the year, and then during the third hour I'll collage up all the sound collages from the summer. Maybe I'll even have some time for a few "goodbye summer" songs at the end.

Wicker Men, Children of the Stones, and Pseudo-Pagans

Tonight we'll start with a quote from Gareth Edwards (of Children of the Stones and Blake's 7 fame) about how the 70s were all about pseudoscience, folk lore and general weirdness. Then we'll hear some audio proof before moving on to newer pseudo-pagans a la John Barleycorn Reborn.

As a teaser please like this:

Tonight VOLUME is on my show

I'll be putting away the 70s British folk vinyl for a week in order to feature some up-to-date right now live music -- namely that of musician VOLUME who will be Djing with me for the whole three hours tonight!

Check him out HERE.

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c60: The Complete Home Recordings

Tonight I'll use as an excuse to play my favorite artists, playing songs that were recorded at home -- often without the intention of letting anyone else hear. Nick Drake, Vic Chesnutt, Jeff Buckley and more. Got suggestions? Call the station when I'm on. Or leave a suggestion below.

Midnight-3 a.m. EST. WCBN.