The Castle and Falcon
The Seventh Wave presents… as part of The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music: Number 13… Wrntdp/Flc/Polypores/Apta/Sulk Rooms/Lo Five.
Live At Iklectik Art Lab, May 2023
A 12” live EP recorded over two performances at Iklectik Art Lab during the afternoon and evening of 13th May, 2023. Afternoon Performance: Just Off The M56 (J12), Rocksavage, Thelwall Viaduct Evening Performance: The Cornerstone, London’s Moving Our Way. Available exclusively through Rough Trade and through the Castles In Space Subscription Library.
Komedia Brighton
Appearing at Komedia in Brighton with The Mistys.
Live in 2023
So 2023, that’s a wrap! 20 gigs in 38 weeks has been exhausting but it’s been fun. Over 6,500 miles driven. I am fully aware that it hardly counts as a punishing schedule, but it does when you’re 48, overweight and have a full time job! There have been some absolute highlights – last week’s […]
The Stone Tape – Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means
Christmas Day 2022 marked 50 years since the original broadcast of the ground-breaking BBC supernatural thriller, ‘The Stone Tape’, written by Nigel Kneale. In early 2023 Hidden Britain commissioned a group of UK based musicians to produce a new piece of work inspired by this extraordinary 1972 TV film. The result is a 16 track […]
Interim Report, March 1979: special edition
Coming on 20 October 2023, Castles In Space is releasing a special edition of the first Warrington-Runcorn album, Interim Report, March 1979. Taken from a new vinyl master, the record will be pressed on heavyweight vinyl. The album will come in a new gatefold sleeve, and accompanied by an exclusive 7″ of two songs taken […]
Building A New Town EP
With the Building A New Town EP, Gordon Chapman-Fox takes the Warrington-New Town Development Plan back to the early 1970s. Across these four tracks, Gordon adds guitars – played and sampled – to his usual epic sonic landscapes. The new towns claimed the perfect suburban life in a green paradise with spacious parks and tree-lined […]
St. John on Bethnal Green
Gordon Chapman-Fox was born in the 1970s and spent his childhood re-enacting Star Wars to the sounds of Jean-Michel Jarre against the backdrop of the last gasp of the space-race. Gordon has been making electronic music since 2003 under various names and labels. Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan is his latest project. Warrington-Runcorn New Town […]
The Yard, Manchester
Gordon Chapman-Fox works under the name Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan (WRNTDP) and produces wonderful propulsive, cinematic electronica which has a musical, conceptual and aesthetic setting in the mid 1970s to early 1980s and has made a great impact since his debut in 2020. Gordon has released four albums to date on independent label Castles in […]
The Nation’s Most Central Location: update
Thank you so much for all of your support and sales of The Nation’s Most Central Location (TNMCL). We genuinely did not anticipate the demand would be as intense as it was. For the previous album, Districts, Roads, Open Space (DROS) we had 1,300 vinyl copies and 300 CDs. These took 2-3 weeks to sell […]