Guyda Armstrong

@guyda.bsky.social

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Books, things, languages, analogue, digital, sound. Shoegazer.

Two musicians in silhouette against bright white lights.
A still from the Fall's video for Hit the North, with three band members performing in front of a historic map of the (proper) North, including Carlisle, Maryport, and Penrith.
A solarized still of two angelic women with white robes and long blonde hair, one of whom is holding out a keyboard, with a forbiddingly dressed guitarist in the foreground. Red text in the background reads THE NORTH WILL RISE
A pictire of the KLF performing It's Grim Up North on Top of the Pops in about 1991, with a 'mannequin' wearing a WWII uniform and helmet, Bill Drummond declaiming the names of Northern locales from a sheer of paper, an industrial guitarist, clouds of dry ice, plus a troupe of Morris Dances, all below a banner reading THE NORTH WILL RISE AGAIN in large red capital letters.
Two figures in dotty costumes play math rock.
View of MBV lights in Loveless pink.
Dinosaur Jr playing Just Like Heaven.
Picture of a page from Dante's Divine Comedy with the different parts of of the page marked up.
A picture of the reflections of three Raphael paintings in a wooden art gallery window.
Wall fresco of an angel appearing to the shepherds from the Christian nativity story.
View down a deserted terminal in Munich airport.
Photocopy of an incunable book with the parts of the page outlined in black marker pen.
Lasers criss-crossing a dark blue evening sky with castle towers in silhouette.