The Dee Day Do Online Festival - Saturday May 25th

Wyrd Kalendar and  Folk Horror Revival are joining forces to bring you a mini online festival in honour of the great Doctor John Dee. It was on this day that Doctor Dee royal astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I was able to look into the future using his scrying mirror.

Celebrate this event by joining in our special Dee Day Do!

Marvel at  Dr Dee's actual mirror at the British Museum in Jim Peters' special presentation!
Dance, jig and sway to the Wyrd Kalendar Dee Day do mix!
Watch A Dr Dee Documentary with fellow Dee fans!
Make your own Scrying mirror!

You can keep up with all of these events as they happen right here on the Wyrd Kalendar blog or on the Folk Horror Revival Facebook group.

While you wait catch up with all things Dee right here...

The Wyrd Kalendar Album - Year Artist - The Mortlake Bookclub

Last year we prepared for the publication of the book Wyrd Kalendar...

This year we are making ready an album of  the same name...

This new album will contain 13 tracks - 12 of which will be related to the stories from the book and the month of the year. The album will be released by the very groovy Mega Dodo (who released Songs from the Black Meadow in 2016). All profits from the album will go to charity.

The artists have been given a month each, a copy of the linked story and Andy Paciorek's picture to give them a starting point and away they go!

We are very proud to reveal that the artist for special bonus track The Year are hauntological ritualists The Mortlake Bookclub who have created a track based on the whole year and all of the various stories contained within The Wyrd Kalendar...

The Mortlake Book Club were and are; Antony Ralph Wealls, Darren Charles, Grey Malkin and Melmoth The Wanderer. All tracks were begun by individual members of the Bookclub and, inspired and directed by the surrealist parlour game Exquisite Corpse, were then added to by the others without knowledge of what each was contributing.

'You know what the problem is with modern music? There’s not enough secret societies, gathering in the shadows to make deliciously dismal sounds, which they then unleash upon a world which… well, you can fill in your own blanks. And it’s about time we said enough is enough. About time we joined the Mortlake Bookclub. Who may be a bunch of avid readers who meet every Wednesday night in a corner of southwest London, to discuss the latest Scandinavian murder mystery. Or may not. Because all we really know about them are four unrepentant slabs of echoing dissonance and mystery that find the middle ground between folk, electronics and the ghostly sounds of shortwave radio, and then stir them into something that sounds nothing like any of them. Spoken word tells stories that you may or may not want to listen to, and the night rides in on wired electric broomsticks. And the cowled and darkened figures, bookclubbers one and all, drift out of unearthly earshot as the final echo turns the page, and yes. Your bookmark did just bite you.' (Dave Thompson, Goldmine Magazine)

More information about the album and our other monthly artists will be released throughout 2018...

While you wait check out the creeping horror that is Mysteriorum Libri Quinque.

Countdown to Publication of Wyrd Kalendar - June

As we prepare for the publication of Wyrd Kalendar later this month enjoy the June mix that contains extracts from "June Bug" and explore some of our June discoveries here...

The June Bug is near...

The new June mix will be out on June 1st. This time with readings from the Wyrd Kalendar June story by Jim Peters...

Catch the May mix here as you enjoy the sunshine!

https://www.mixcloud.com/Wyrd_Kalendar/wyrd-kalendar-may/