No subject

 No real updates currently, loads going on though.

 But wanted to share a quick video from mobile recordings from my last show in Brixton in June.

  

Going out of my head

 

 

Last year I collaborated with my good friend Dan Bolger. Here are the results under the artist name of Mein Host.

 

Please take a listen. Also available a limited edition CDr of this recording. Please reach out if you are interested. 

  

Next show

Hey, I'm playing this event at Spanners next month (June 2026). If you are about please come on down.

4046 boat recording

Back in February I was honoured to be asked to join the 4046 group for a performance on A Slice of Reality, static boat near Greenwich. Was a great night and really nice to collaborate with the rest of the group.

A recording of the set was broadcast on Resonance FM earlier this month. 

Check it here... 

https://extra.resonance.fm/episodes/naus-2026-05-07 

Thanks.

Next up, radio silence, flurries of activity, procrastination, and then finally some blood. Possibly a live set too. 

Live show January 2026 - Collaboration with John Macedo

First of, apologies to reader(s)? of this blog for posting about a gig after it happened. I'm blaming flu and being wildly out of it post sickness. OK, as much as it makes no sense posting this, for the record I played a set at The Hundred Years Gallery on the 24th January as a collaboration with good friend and fantastic musician John Macedo, this was part of the ASCH tour of the UK. It was a great night and I feel the set went well. Thank you James for putting this on and uploading his recording of the set. 

 

Next up, recordings in the works, procrastination, flurry's of activity. 

 

2025 Review, new split record, news etc...

2025 Review...

This post was started optimistically in a restaurant in Madrid over breakfast two weeks ago and finished on a drab cold Winter's afternoon back in North London way past the intended 1st of January deadline.

2025 was a fairly good, yet tough year personally. Like other years my BBBlood my output wasn't loads, but what I completed I'm extremely happy with. It was a joy to return to Leeds in June, the run up to which I really made time to get back into action of recording and rehearsing. The show forcing me to finally commit to releasing new material and I put out some tracks for compilations. I do really love playing gigs, it puts a rocket under me to do more, but I think the biggest issue for me is always time and space to do more. I'm hoping 2026 I manage to make some more time. 

 

Big thanks to the label Un Poco Fria for releasing 'Feral Tape' at the start of this year, Pete for putting me on in Leeds, and to Carlo for releasing the split CDr with Last Action. 

Split with Last Action

 

This one has been in the works for a while, it's a real pleasure to be doing a split CDr with Carlo, it's been close to 20 years now since he released BBBlood 'The Cosmic Gash' on his now defunct legendary label Audiobot. Copies are limited direct from Carlo.

 

 

 

BBBLOOD / LAST ACTION - Split CDr
Paul Watson is an absolute fuckin' living noise legend that has literally earned more stripes in the game than an Adidas tracksuit. This dude is hands down a top-notch geezer from head to toe, OG pedal pusher, golden day one connect & one of the best to ever do it the harsh way across the pond in the United Kingdom. King life. Dad life. From his truly memorable Audiobot release way back in 2006 to this terrifying shredder almost twenty fuckin' years later... It's full circle season & you're more than welcome in our harsh noise escapist circle where walls collapse & skulls explode. You need this sh*t euh split in your life. Full-color artwork packaged in slim orange DVD-case with fold-out insert & b/w xeroxed upcomin' releases flyer. Spraypainted discs just like Da Teacher told us. Edition of 20 copies.

'Best of' 2025

This part of the blog post has been sat as a draft email for ages, but in the last few days I've been revisiting records I've listened to and purchased this year whilst trying not to be influenced by everyone else's lists (even though it's hard to do so). Some of the old favouries are in there, but this year I think I made some effort to check out some artists I'd never heard of previously.

 

Here is a list of records / things I enjoyed this year:

 

• Merzbow / John Wiese - Akashaplexia
• Merzbow - PENDULUM
  
• Kiran Arora - Virgin Forest
• Kiran Arora - Keepsake
• Erik Nystrand - Brain Damaged By Head Meat
• Altar Of Flies - A Lifetime
• Incapacitants - Chwalfa
• John Duncan & Torturing Nurse - Glass Mind
• Otomo Yoshihide Solo Works 2 - Otomo Yoshihide Plays Christian Marclay
• Russell Walker -  Back To The Womb 
• XT + Anne Gillis - AnimauX veGeTal
• Dai Koelakanth - Don't Let Me Be A Burden
  
• Max Julian Eastman - Regency Place
• Plutonomy - Saturated and Sun Burnt  
• Charmaine Lee - Tulpa 
• Ted Byrnes & Jeph Jerman - Play Drums
• Marc Baron + Eric La Casa - Contrefaçons
• Heat Signature - Trench Trapped
• Sewer Election & ÅN - De Sälla Jaktmarkerna
• Commuter - Tokyo Pure Decadence
• John Wall - Constructions I-IV. 2025
• CREAMS - THROUGH BEING COOL
• A LARGE SHEET OF MUSCLE - CURRENCY EEL
• TYHJÄ PÄÄ - High Magnetic Intensity 
• Faith Coloccia + Daniel Menche - Smelter
• Xeroxhead - I / O
• Duncan Harrison - There is No Fire in the Lake
• Germ Lattice - Corpusty
• Recording with D. Bolger for an upcoming release

2026 plans 

 

Turning to 2026 I'm feeling optimistic, I will do a separate post here but I will be collaborating with long time friend John Macedo on the 24th of Jan at the Hundred Years Gallery. The show is part of  the ASCH (From the Netherlands) UK tour. Beyond that nothing is concrete.

 

Happy new year. 

Compilation appearances / Video clips

Thanks to those who came out for the Leeds show other month was great to play and see everyone.

I did a very short video with the clips I was sent on Instagram (Thanks Andy, Anna, Pete, and others I'd forgotten)

 

And uploaded the last of the Cycle videos I did back in pandemic time

Also two appearances on two very different compilations

LEEDS 21st JUNE 2025

Just a quick note I'm playing Leeds on Saturday (21st June), first gig there in almost 10 years. 

Crater Lake Presents...

BBBlood -  Junk/noise/gunk
Vile Plumage - Tapes, tales & terror from Burselm
Carnivorous Plants - Estatic guitar drone zones
Wire Mothers - Banshee electronics for cold-blooded nurturers

21.6.25, 6pm
£8/PAYF Contact @feghoots for location.

Thanks to Pete for putting this on at a new location, sounds quite exciting.

Feral Tape

 New release out now on Un Poco Fria

 

This is the diffinative edition of the previous digital only release of Feral Tape. Containing recordings between 2013 and 2019, it's been expanded in 2024, mastered by Grant Richardson (Hex Audio Labs), and given the first class treatment by Un Poco Fria from Yakima, Washington, USA. I'm really pleased to have this one finally released. Limited copies still available at time of writing with the label.

https://unpocofria.bandcamp.com/album/feral-tape

 

2024 review and news

A sum up of 2024.

Live: No gigs in 2024, I plan to change this in '25, but the main focus has been recording new materials and learning new audio gear. 

Recordings: I've been recording, editing a bit, but nothing has been released this year. In 2025 a issue/re-issue of Feral Tape is planned. But I'll a post more on this when it's out.

Best of 2024: (aka a list of records that came out this year / experiences / reissues that really stood out over the last year, in no order at all), I spent a good afternoon looking through all the CDs, LPs, tapes and Bandcamp digital downloads I can remember. I'll probably spend too long on this as per usual and then miss something off by accident.

• Adam Bohman - Text Pieces + Compositions for Prepared Strings and Objects (KrimKram)
  
• Germ Lattice - Gipping Through the Ages (Horn of Plenty)
• A Large Sheet Of Muscle - Dracula Completo (The Trilogy Tapes)
  
• Tourette -  Mati​è​re Arrach​é​e (Flag Day Recordings)
  
• Intermodulation - Connections (1970 - 1974) (Paradigm Discs)
• Red Brut - On Bare Ground (Coherent States)
  
• Tom Furgas - Strobe Radio (Tribe Tapes)
• Garbage Fleet - Cold Streetmeat (Haggered Offerings)
• No Artist - Making Records: Home Recordings c. 1890​-​1920 (Death Is Not The End)
• Merzbow / John Wiese - EKA Varna (Helicopter)
• K2 / John Wiese - Multiple Density (Helicopter)
• T. Mikawa / John Wiese - Live At 落合 Soup (Helicopter)
• Merzbow / Sissy Spacek -  Coronado (Helicopter)
• The Cherry Point - Dawn of the Bloody Tapes (Helicopter)
• Scant - Vitiate (Psychic Liberation)
• Vasco Alves - Estrada Longa (Feedback Moves)
• The Bohman Brothers - Room Service (Rural Isolation Project)
• Max Julian Eastman - An Event In 4.75 Time (Chocolate Monk)
  
• Marc Barron / Mark Vernon - Post-Chance (Erstwhile Records)
• Shadow Pattern - Chimerism (Adhuman)
• The Incapacitants - Live (Cafe Oto, September 2024)
• Michael Barthel - Two im Teer (Recordings For The Summer)
  
• Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Adam Bohman & Sue Lynch / Jackson Burton - Orbit​-​Son (Infant Tree)

 I hope you are well and have a great festive break if you take one.

2024 updates

Just posting a quick note to say BBBlood / I am still active. Normally I've only have limited time to recording / producing noise, but I'm working towards a new record which I hope will surface in 2025.

Samples, why not? Here's a clip of something WIP that I uploaded to Soundcloud.

Paul Watson · Sample 01 WIP

2023 end of year / December updates / Loose future plans

Hi, so this time round I have done a end of year write up, it's a little shorter than the usual. 

I guess it has been a challenging year for all, it's especially hard to stay positive when what goes on in the fills you with dispair. 

However, musically (is it music) for me I guess it's been an OK year, and feel I'm finishing on a positive with these recent shows. Would like to have got a new release out, but just never made the time.

Thanks to those who made it down to the shows I did this year. Especially to James and Paul who booked me and to the other artists who played. It was great to start playing again, not so great to lug my Peli case around. But cheers for cheap cabs and free drinks, more for 2024! 

I think one thing that stood out to me playing gigs for the first time in a few years was the volume of great new noise/experimental/whatever artists there are now both locally and across the UK has exploded post-pandemic. I feel like maybe 4-5 years ago I knew pretty much most of the artists who made noise in the UK but now I know virtually nothing! And I'll be honest it's really encouraging and hopefully means more gigs, meeting new people, and pushing the boundaries of genre.

I thought this year I'd try to get a EOY list completed as I don't think I did one for last year. 

So this is a "list of records / experiences / reissues that really stood out over the last year, in no order at all..." 

• Wilderness Years - Kiran Arora (Fantasy Knife)
  
• Aphorisms - Graham Lambkin (Blank Forms Editions)
  
• Model Of Malehood - Max Julian Eastman (Tribe Tapes)
  
• Another (Looped) Sunday - seht (Another Sunday)
  
• Distant Dosage - Robert Turman (Dead Mind Records)
  
• Three Things - Luciano Maggiore & Louie Rice (Adhuman)
• Thatch - Daniel Menche (Self-release)
  
• Plays / XCIII - Merzbow & Smegma (Helicopter, Troniks)
  
• Calisthenics in reverse - Jam Dodge (Historic Masses)
  
• At War With Windsor - The False Face Society (Chocolate Monk)
• Cacophony - John Wall (Self-released)
  
• Electronic Music from 1972​-​2022 - Carl Stone (Unseen Worlds)
  
• Tapes - Angus MacLise (Art into Life)
  
• Sheet Erosion - Mark Vernon (Sonoris)
  
• Live - Knurl, Mlehst (@ New River Studios)
  
• Château Mordécoly - Mordecoli (Valerio Tricoli & Ecka Mordecai) (Alter)
  
• Unbalanced Contraptions & Misc Loops #1- #3 - Michael Ridge (Chocolate Monk)
  
• Under the Island: Experimental Music in Ireland 1960 - 1994 - Various (Nyahh Records)
  
• Self titled - Jackson​-​Pratt & Shredded Nerve (Total Black)
  

2024, so what is the plan? I'd like to get the Cycle noise project I started completed plus another full length record that's been off/on in the works done. Maybe some releases from the archive finally seeing light? Gigs, yes I'd like to play some more, some of the ideas I started to work on for the 'Mulch' gig in November need to be explored further. Plus also it's great just to play something incredibly harsh and noisey. 

So to you who are reading this post have a great festive season, here's to 2024.

November show

Thanks to those who came out last week to the Helm / Mlehst show. Was real fun. 

Next event is in November for the Tread into Mulch series.

Updates - New shows

Hey, so I don't really know who reads this blog (shout if you do!) but normally I do a end of year round up, best of the year, and give some reflections. That didn't happen in 2022, it was a mad time and I couldn't make the time to post here.

Anyway, new show announcment in September 2023. I'll be supporting the excellent Helm, Mlehst, and Gutter Carrion at New River Studios. Please see the flyer.

 

After that hoping to announce something very different in November, but more information about that later.

20 YEARS OF BBBLOOD

 

 

https://www.spanners.club/event-details/bbblood-malvern-brume-spencer-lassiters-complex 

 

 

A late 2021 review

Review:

Readers of this blog might (or probably didn't) notice / care that there was no 2021 review, but I did start writing a blog post back 17th December last year. Here it is, I just never hit publish. Since this, no new news, I'm kind of taking a break for now, but never say never...

You'd think, it's got to get easier? But 2021 was personally a challenging year, so that translated for me into a not so productive year. I mean there's not been too many gigs going on here in London until recent, and people are generally I'de like to think more cautious about going out. I didn't play any shows, nor did I get a rush of creativity caused by lockdowns or being indoors. 

I think the one thing I appreciated the most over the last year was the support of friends and family. 

It's not all bad news, I do feel and hope the worst of this is past us, I managed to go abroad for a few weeks, got to see family I wasn't able to in previous years, and I think it meant when I was out I valued the company and occasion more than in the past where sometime I feel it could be taken for granted.

With all that considered, I was able to relase one new BBBlood cassette 'Deaf and Capital' on Fantasy Knife, which is now sold out from me, but I believe should be available directly from the label and various noise distros. Thanks to everyone who purchased a copy it's appreciated. 

What else? I record a lot of music, field recordings, sampled manipulations, noise, cut ups, but I think the challenge is really that focus time to edit and mix down everything into a recording that I'm satisfied with. 

 In 2002 when I first started to record I was wet behind the ears, listening to Merzbow, Masonna, Bastard Noise (all via Relapse) and whatever other noise I could find via mail / early online distros, the bar for quality noise was set really low, and I also had way too much time on my hands. Now fast forward to 2021, with all the noise gear I'd dream of back then, family responsibilities, a global pandemic, information overload, and a wider appreciation for noise music. I feel the need to make sure that anything I release is original, thus putting a lot of pressure onmyself to do something I'm really proud of. As 2022 is the 20 year anniversary of 'Experiment 1' I'm planning on releasing something next year on CD as a celebration! As and when I'll update on Twitter and this blog.

End of year list:

As ever I try to put together a list of records / experiences that really stood out over the last year, in no order at all. This includes gigs, reissues, restaurants, anything I want.

 

Kent Tankred - There Is Nothing To Attain 

A LARGE SHEET OF MUSCLE - I PAINT THE FEET OF MY ENEMIES

農家の日焼け – でんき風呂

Shakeeb Abu Hamdan & Sholto Dobie - It's worse

Territorial Gobbing - Anything on his Bandcamp

Charmaine Lee - KNVF

Emil Beaulieau - Korm 88

Neil Luck - Downturn Fantasies

WCN Podcast - 

Small Cruel Party - è vago fior del tempo

Negative Reaction LP (Reissue)

Mlehst - Her Single Desire Was Sadistic Pleasure But Emotions Always Betrayed Her ‎/ Deep Throat And Felching /   Breathing In Dead Flies / Cock Sucking Lips ‎(Re-Issues)

Probably a few more but I've forgotten now.

Blog review

I can never really get the look and feel of the blog here quite right so will be experimenting with some themes and changes / a refresh of the content. What started initially as a MySpace blog transferred over to blogger has never really been maintained properly.

Otherwise, loads of half finished ideas, none ready for release. No gigs lined up currently but will announce here if that changes. 

Deaf and Capital

New BBBlood cassette ep "Deaf and Capital" has been released by new NYC based tape label Fantasy Knife. I'm extremely happy to see this tape released and it's the first new(ish) BBBlood recordings to have been released for some time.

It's a c30 comprising of material I've had in progress for the past 4-5 years, mangled re-processed in 2020.

I have a limited number of copies so if you are interested message me. If you live in mainland Europe White Centipede Noise have copies, USA either direct from the label or Skeleton Dust.

 Please check it out. I'm considering uploading to Bandcamp when it's sold out, but for now it's offline.

Paul Watson · BBBlood - Deaf And Capital (Samples)

 

 

2020 Review

As tradition I use this blog to document each year based on what I achieved. It's normally a fun review of the year passed, and a time to briefly reflect through a pretty limited set of criteria (shows played, favourite reords, gigs etc..).

I don't need to tell you, as you're living through it too but 2020 just wasn't great. I really hope those who are reading this are safe and well. Personally, I have to view it through the frame that I'm healthy, and incredibly grateful it's meant I've spent more time with my family, and that's been priceless.

Putting it aside (if that's possible). For some it's been a very productive year, the volume of new recorded output, online streamed shows, collaborations, and creativity from others has been immense. I'm truely in awe of those who have been able to make the most of a situation. I guess it's one of the only ways to truely keep sane at the moment. Some people I know have chosen to drink through the pandemic, for me the temptation has been there but it does feel like a waste. I guess we do what we do to cope. I'm hoping that 2021 I'll be more productive and organised in my work and noisy output.

Gigs, I did play the one show, the day before the lockdown in England was announced in March, this was a collaboration with Yoni Silver and was later released on Beartown Records. It was great fun and really made me excited about the potential for gigging.. But for now that can wait. In reflection it was a bad idea to play that show, but none of us knew at the time.

Recordings, the previously posted The False Face Society release and releasing a mini album as a digital download was all that was newly released. I also uploaded some older eps to Bandcamp. I did finish off a couple new recordings this year but they are yet to be released. More information here when I have news.

Best of 2020, in comparison to the previous years I've not really consumed as much new music, but here is a list (and I'll probably review it 2-3 times more after posting)

Sewer Election - Blizard Amplification (Also mentions to Dream Bizarre and Unwilling Nature)
Various Artists - Amplify 2020 (various tracks within this enormous compliation,)
Testicle Hazard - Fifty-Sixty
Duncan Harrison / Ian Murphy - Slow Lightning (and Duncan's Music From Amplified Flexible Discs)
Rust Ruus - IDEOLOGICAL BLUES APPARATIOUS
Alice Kemp - Songs in the Key of NO
Theo Gowans - Wresteling Spelt Wrong On The Flyer (and the Hiddeous Whining events)
AMK - 250 Years of AMK
Chocolate Monk (Just in general, tons of great output this year, the plague TV etc...)
Dust track - Reculver Towers
Chop Shop - Primer (Reissue of older material as a new release counts!)
Deathroes - Inhuman Comedy
Phil Maguire & Tim Olive - Invoer
John Wiese - Magnetic Stensil 1&2 (and Accessible World w/ Skin Graft)
David Gilden - Narcotic (Various Noise Works)
Joe McPhee & Lasse Marhaug - Harmonia Macrocosmica
Marja Ahti - The Current Inside
Vasco Alves - Gaita Contra Computador

Best wishes for 2021

Paul  

The False Face Society - Running Me Down

Almost missed this.

I contributed sounds for the first track on the latest The False Face Society record "Running Me Down" what was released on CD by Clean Index in Australia.

Running Me Down is a piece of fiction written by Russell Walker in Spring/Summer 2020, based on events in Normandy where his mother lived from the late 1990s. The writing was divided into five different parts and narrated by Walker, then sent to five different collaborators to provide musical accompaniment.

Hailing from Ruislip, West London but presently a resident of Hitchin, North Hertfordshire, Russell Walker’s writing finds home in diverse settings, from art rock units The Bomber Jackets and The Pheromoans, through to novel When New Towns Act Tough (Larching Books, 2016). Running Me Down follows Half Time 1916 (Chocolate Monk, 2018) and sits closest to the predominantly text driven sound work released previously by Walker under his own name, and as a part of Charcoal Owls and The Teleporters. Here variegated impressionistic electronics provide a fitting bed for a faultlessly dry five-part spoken narrative of undesirable company and parochial outlooks.

credits

released November 19, 2020

All text by Russell Walker

All other sounds by

Paul Watson (Part 1)
Design a Wave (Part 2)
Anna Peaker (Part 3)
Tom Scott (Part 4)
R Elizabeth (Part 5)