The Pin Jar with Sam Reid

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A story-cycle from the deep taproot of the Sussex ‘Weald’, The Pin Jar is a record of vernacular folk tales as transcribed by the enigmatic composer and amateur ethnographer Francis J. Cardwell, who habitually, compulsively, taped the various stories and songs he encountered in the now lost pubs of his county. Earthy, half-haunted, dialect-rich—this is the true stuff of deep weird England. Sam Reid’s beguiling debut presents us with the folk process of story-telling and song reimagined as a radical literary experiment and fictional archive of place-memory. Sam will be in-conversation with Will Burns (The Paper Lantern / Natural Burial Ground).

'So hauntingly lyrical… an extraordinary trip for your imagination. I adored it.' Maxine Peake

Bumper aka Tom Rogers-Coltman is a guitarist and composer based in London. He makes instrumental music for acoustic guitar and cassette tapes, collecting field recordings and writing songs about walking and things he thought he’d forgotten.