Heavy Rural

20/02/2026

Mark and I are looking forward to Luminous Foundationing at Gwyl Ffynnon Garon 2026 in two weeks time (March 6 & 7) in Tregaron, in beautiful Mid Wales. This really great mini-fest is billed as 'Two days festival of experimental music in deepest mid Wales, with a ritual walk following the Welsh bagpiper to dress Ffynnon Garon'. Yowsa! We're playing on Saturday night, but both days will be essential. Tix and info are at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experimental-music-alchemy-gwyl-ffynnon-garon-2026-tickets-1977920486419?aff=oddtdtcreator💥🌞🌝💥

Two days festival of experimental music, in deepest mid Wales with a ritual walk following the Welsh bagpiper to dress Ffynnon Garon

24/01/2026

SITE HOUND Issue 1 is out now!

SITE HOUND Issue 1 from Urthona

15/01/2026

Coming in a couple of weeks, issue 1 of SITE HOUND, Heavy Rural’s old skool Earth Mysteries print fanzine…

13/12/2025

If you happen to be near Stroud next Saturday, December 20, myself and my old buddy Danny Sullivan are taking part in the Earth Magic: Collective Mysteries series of events at the Museum in the Park. We'll be discussing earth mysteries - and specifically the zines Gloucestershire Earth Mysteries and 3rd Stone, which we put out 1990-2003, and a compendium of material from is being published by Strange Attractor Press next spring. It's from 1-4pm and tix are free. Here's a link to the event: https://patriciabrien.com/events

08/11/2025

New Urthona out today… 🌓✨

6 track album

10/10/2025

Coming in November! Urthona - Forever People 2: Peace Songs for Six Lunar Goddesses. Ultra mellow ambient tape loop drones ahoy!

12/09/2025

Luminous Foundation at the Strange Days Festival of Forteana at Honeystreet, Wilts last Saturday!

01/06/2025

Grovely Castle, Wilts - an awesomely-situated Iron Age hillfort on the edge of Grovely Wood, northwest of Salisbury. The area is bursting with earthworks, and the mega views north (in the opposite direction to the pic) extend from Somerset to Berkshire. 💥

18/05/2025

Freq has published a lengthy review of Hypogeum 68! - thanks Mike Rodham-Heaps 💥

reviews UFO67 – Hypogeum 68! Published 17/05/2025 Heavy Rural If you like hazy guitar improv, this is solid. Four lengthy crafted excursions dusted in a ghosting of late ’60s psychedelia and geologically pinned to a Neolithic underground burial complex in Malta. Its creators losing their shape t...

20/04/2025

Here's a YT vid of my solo Urthona set at Gwŷl Ffynnon Garon 2025, Tregaron, Wales in March

Urthona/Neil Mortimer's 30-minute semi-improvised solo set at Gwŷl Ffynnon Garon 2025, at the Memorial Hall, including elements of the early Urthona track 'B...