The other day, I received an email from Swedish shamans Peacock Farm, which read, “Peacock Farm recently went to Nacksving Gussjö Studios in the dark forrest of Västmanland, Sweden, to record a live session. It was recorded by Marcus Cederlöf and filmed by Adam Toner and resulted in a short live film called We didn’t catch you in watercolor, including four previously unreleased tracks. It’s like a movie EP if you will. ”

Pretty much everything about this statement intrigued me, but best of all, they have the tunes to match.

We have just spent an escapist, week long family holiday at Corcreggan Mill in Dunfanaghy, courtesy of the ubiquitous host and raconteur, Brendan Rohan. There are few better antidotes for “civilisation”, Corcreggan is a magical destination, one which Brendan describes in his local walking guide as follows, “The hollow in which Corcreggan Mill is situated is said to be a pre-Celtic ritual site dedicated to the goddess Danu, and it has been described by the renowned Slovenian expert, Marko Pogačnik as “the energy centre of the whole north-west of Ireland”. In evidence of all this it should be considered that there are 175 recorded archaeological sites within a five mile radius.”

Just about surviving the reluctant trek home on Friday evening, what better way to delay the inevitable return to “normality” on Saturday afternoon, than with 80 minutes in the company of M.A. Littler‘s sublime and visionary documentary, ‘Lost Coast‘.