Here is the cover I did for the album 'Kinetic Vacancy', the new solo album by my friend Sam Barton, best know for his stellar trumpet work in the band Teeth of the Sea.
Available on tape and CD. There is also a bonus postcard featuring the full pic used on the cover. You can pre-order it here.....
https://samuelbarton1.bandcamp.com/album/kinetic-vacancy
Christmas in a Catholic School circa 1983. Taken from 'Ghost Stories I Remember' which you can grab here....
https://colossive.com/product/ghost-stories-i-remember-patrick-wray-zine/
A recently commissioned hand drawn jumper featuring a new version of my popular 'Zippy Scream' image.
A new song I wrote and recorded in collaboration with Mats Davidsen aka Painted Romans is out today. Mats and I have previously collaborated on the songs 'Power Ballad' (from my album ICU on Telephono 1986), 'Drives Me On' (from the Painted Romans album 'Heart') and the Davidsen and Wray 'My Big Idea EP'. I also covered his song 'Gin and Tonic Tonight' on the album 'ICU on Telephono 1986)
Mats brought the song to life using a very rough demo of the song which I recorded on a nineties Yamaha keyboard. I may upload the demo somewhere at some point so people can hear just how rough it is.
The song is about some of my early memories of when the Yorkshire Ripper was finally caught and the atmosphere of fear that pervaded at the time.
You can listen to the song on bandcamp at....https://patrickwray.bandcamp.com/track/dark-times-in-a-yorkshire-landscape
It's also available on all streaming platforms.
My in depth article on pornographic horror films appears in the current issue of Darkside Magazine (236) published end of last week.
You can order a copy here....https://thedarksidemagazine.com/product/issue-236-blood-island-memories/
It's also on sale at all major newsagents such as WH Smith etc.
It covers a wide variety of films such as 'La Bete' (1975), 'Though the Looking Glass' (1976), and 'Nightdreams' (1982). Even Ben Dover's 'Death Shock' (1982) gets a passing mention!
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| Through the Looking Glass (1976) |
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| Nightdreams (1982) |
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| Beast in Space (1980) |
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| Widow Blue! (1970) |
My drawing/painting of Pipes from 'Ghostwatch' which was broadcast thirty years ago today in 1992. It terrified the nation (including me!) Taken from my short graphic memoir 'Ghost Stories I Remember' published by Colossive Press this year.
https://colossive.com/product/ghost-stories-i-remember-patrick-wray-zine/
You can listen to my interview on the Sheffield Live arts programme Radioactive.Thanks to Sarah and Tim for having me on the show (again!) and for all their support in the last year with numerous mentions of my artistic oddments on the programme.....
Things discussed were 'Ghost Stories I Remember' (Colossive Press), 'We Can collect the Keys' (Lost Futures) and 'Grandad Reg'(Kus!) as well as my noughties home-recording odyssey. We also discussed the book 'Fifty Lost Books' published by And Other Stories. We talked a bit about my nineties Doctor Who Comic as well as the end of Jodie Whittaker's time in the Tardis.
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| Buy a copy of 'Ghost Stories I Remember' |
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| https://shop.exits.org.uk/product/we-can-collect-the-keys Buy a copy of 'We Can Collect the Keys' |
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| Buy a copy of 'Grandad Reg' https://kushkomikss.ecrater.com/p/40447275/granddad-reg-by-p-wray-c-heathcock |
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| https://open.spotify.com/album/3pfqWX7UAxkrbVUu7Kug8P Listen to Cogs 'Laugher and Footsteps' |
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| https://www.andotherstories.org/fifty-forgotten-books/ Order 'Fifty Forgotten Books' |
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| https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/tag/felt-trips/ My Doctor Who Felt Trip at Haunted Generation. |
