Clay Pipe Music

20/12/2024

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported Clay Pipe this year. It’s been a joy to work with: Garden Gate, David Boulter, Vic Mars, Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman, each of whom has poured incredible effort and creativity into their music. I’m really proud of every record we have released.

It's a difficult time to run a label like Clay Pipe. While our music reaches listeners across the globe, the label only survives because so many of you choose to buy physical releases from us. So thanks to everyone who has bought something from Clay Pipe this year, and over the years! Lots more happening in 2025, so stay tuned.

15/12/2024

Congratulations to Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman, Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On has made a well deserved number 10 in Electronic Sounds Magazine top 100 records of the year!

13/12/2024

Thanks to Monorail for making The Hardy Tree's 'All the Hours' one of their 'Albums of the Year'. They have an exclusive handmade signed edition in a box:

https://monorailmusic.com/product/all-the-hours/?mc_cid=f121b65dd6&mc_eid=d63eced302

On reflection this was the most beautiful piece of new music I heard all year. All The Hours by The Hardy Tree was composed on Elektron Syntakt and Elektron Digitakt by Clay Pipe’s Frances Castle for a live performance. It’s quietly amazing, enveloping and surprising, simple and complicated - somehow it makes you feel like you’re inside it. With The Hardy Tree I always hear traces of Virginia Astley but this is maybe closer to one of those odd, gorgeous Aphex Twin tunes that he casually drops from time to time. All The Hours is exactly that; a soundtrack to the day, to all days - permanent, melodic, perfect. SP

12/12/2024

Apologies if you haven't received a print you ordered from me last Friday, I've had to wait ages for more poster tubes - which have just arrived but turned out to be too small! I'll be getting them sent out as soon as I can.

11/12/2024

Just a reminder that there are still some coaster sets in the Clay Pipe Bandcamp. Based on the artwork for Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman's Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On. They might make a good Xmas gift? https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/merch

07/12/2024

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If you're stuck indoors hiding from Storm Darragh and need something to read on your tablet, you can download the digital version of the Stagale books for just £3 each. Each purchase includes a PDF of the book along with the accompanying soundtrack. Available from: https://thehardytree.bandcamp.com/

06/12/2024

I've just put a selection of Risograph prints up on the Clay Pipe Bandcamp for Bandcamp Friday. https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/merch

06/12/2024

As the nights draw in, we are looking forward to settling down with a good book, and first on our list for December is the latest visually stunning and completely gripping instalment of 'Stagdale', the graphic novel by Frances Castle.

'Stagdale Part 3', picks up with twelve-year-old Kathy reading Max's diary after finding it hidden behind the skirting board of the old cottage she and her mother are renting. She is instantly captivated as she reads Max's descriptions of his daily life staying with the Jackson family during World War 2. Cleverly flitting between the late 1930’s and the 1970’s, Kathy and readers will discover that Max’s hidden diary may be the key to unravelling many years of mystery relating to the missing jewel of Stagdale. Find out more in our news: https://tinyurl.com/nacb3zn2

Frances Castle
Clay Pipe Music

06/12/2024

For Bandcamp Friday I've reduced the first Stagdale book down to £7.50 - this is a nice new print of the book with a matt cover, and includes a download of the EP. I'm hoping if you like this one you might like the others....

3 track album

05/12/2024

Been going through the plan chest here at Clay Pipe HQ and dug out some Riso prints for Bandcamp Friday. Found lots of old favourites, some which are over-prints etc all will be signed. Follow the Clay Pipe Bandcamp for a reminder https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com

04/12/2024

If you ordered a copy of Stagdale 3 from me on Friday via Bandcamp and didn't get a download let me know. It looks like the book wasn't linked to the music properly.

3 track album

03/12/2024

Great to see Stagdale up on Comic Book News

Discover the hidden secrets of Stagdale today.

03/12/2024

I've written a piece on the Clay Pipe Substack about how I came up with the graphics for Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman's Ash Grey And The Gull Glides on: https://claypipemusic.substack.com/p/ash-grey-and-the-gull-glides-on

30/11/2024

Just two copies of the Stagdale 3 book with the flexi disk remaining: https://thehardytree.bandcamp.com/album/stagdale-ep-part-3

29/11/2024

I talked to Bob Fischer about Stagdale part 3

Christmas morning, 1979. Hidden among a luridly-wrapped glut of Star Wars merchandise piled high beneath my grandma’s silver Christmas tree is a more low-key present, a slim comic book that a…

29/11/2024

Stagale part 3 is now available to order from the Clay Pipe Greedbag shop: https://claypipemusic.greedbag.com/ There are also copies on the Hardy Tree Bandcamp: https://thehardytree.bandcamp.com/ I've done a small run of the first two books, with their flexi discs. All books now have matt covers.

27/11/2024

Coasters based on the artwork for Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Permans ‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’. Available in the Clay Pipe Greedbag shop on Friday.