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The Prehistoric Peak
The Prehistoric Peak is a practical guidebook to discovering and exploring the Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments of the Peak District. The intention is not to explain their origins, but to encourage everyone to go and see them for themselves as they are today.
I have visited each site several times in order to record each one through photographs, ground plans of what can be seen today, custom maps with step-by-step, clear, concise directions on how to find each one and all the necessary GPS and OS grid references.
It also includes practical advice on how to make your exploration of the Prehistoric Peak as pleasurable and safe as possible as well as a comprehensive list of all other known sites in the Peak District along with their OS grid reference.
Specifications
ISBN 978-1-4466-3902-3
192 pages
Perfect-bound paperback
Full colour throughout
14.5 cm x 21.0 cm
How the Neolithics Influenced Rock ‘n’ Roll
An Inquiry into how and why the music industry has used megalithic monuments as iconography since the late 1960s.
The book sets out to explore the connections between megalithic monuments and Rock ‘n’ Roll music by first addressing what the megalithic structures would have originally meant to the builders and users of these sites and at the statements they were making at that time.
It then looks at how Rock ‘n’ Roll artists have incorporated images of these monuments into album cover designs in an attempt to understand why, despite being separated by millennia from the original builders, they have chosen to use such places to represent the statements they are making through their music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Originally submitted as part of my MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, this 2010 edition has been edited and updated to include additional examples of megaliths as cover art.
Specifications
ISBN 978-1-4461-9138-5
78 pages
Perfect-bound paperback
Full colour throughout
148 mm x 210 mm
Black Sheep VC Orcadia
Black Sheep VC Orcadia is part of the canon of works produced by Julian Cope’s Black Sheep collective. Highly experimental and somewhat controversial, it was released in August 2010 on Julian Cope’s F**k Off & Di label, the album consisting of a series of archaeosonic experiments recorded by Common Era and Vybik Jon inside the Neolithic chambered cairns of Orkney. It consists of four megalithic vocal experiments and includes a highly informative 16-page booklet, much of it written by Julian Cope, under whose wing this project was developed and encouraged.