Public Works and Utilities
The sixth Warrington-Runcorn album continues to explore New Towns and the demise of the post-war consensus. This time Gordon Chapman-Fox’s gaze falls on our public services that have been starved of cash or privatised since 1980. “It seems ridiculous in hindsight for a developed country to have packed up and sold off vital infrastructure such […]
Appendix I
Appendix I brings together three Warrington-Runcorn EPs onto CD for the first time. Comprising Building A New Town, A Shared Sense Of Purpose and Overspill Estates, this CD brings together some of the more esoteric elements of the world of Musical New Town Planning. 2023’s Building A New Town EP moved the reference point of […]
Overspill Estates
Containing four songs left over from the Your Community Hub sessions, Overspill Estates completes the “purple” cycle of releases inspired by the Community Centres that formed the network at the heart of Runcorn New Town. These four songs were always part of Your Community Hub until a late burst of creativity meant there was no […]
Your Community Hub
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan’s new album, Your Community Hub continues Gordon Chapman-Fox’s sonic exploration of the New Towns movement, and how the issues they set out to solve still echo today. The theme for 2024’s album is Community, and the Community Centres that populated Warrington and Runcorn to provide all the facilities people needed […]
A Shared Sense Of Purpose
A Shared Sense of Purpose by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan A Shared Sense Of Purpose is the first track on the album, and the single will be available in 7″ and 12″ formats. Both formats will include an exclusive remix from the Godfather of New Town Synth, Mr Vince Clarke. (If you haven’t already […]
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.
Building A New Town
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 […]
The Nation’s Most Central Location
The fourth Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan album, The Nation’s Most Central Location, will be released on 19 May 2023. This album sees Gordon Chapman-Fox (the man behind Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan) explore the north-south divide and reflect on 40 years of broken ‘levelling up’ promises. With eight tracks across 40 minutes, the album […]
Districts, Roads, Open Space
Becoming more experimental, and more elongated, the music captures the open spaces, and the connections of town planning.
People & Industry
The follow up to Interim Report, March 1979 provides a soundtrack to industry, employment and life in Warrington-Runcorn at the tail end of the 1970s.