Recently at the Raising Steam festival, Mark Hayes helpfully pointed his camera at The Ominous Folk. He’s now turned his videos into a blog post.
There are a couple of technical things here – because we’ve migrated to a different host, while we still look like a wordpress site we’ve lost the power to reblog, so we have to take a slightly different approach to sharing things.
Thing number two is that Mark is a lovely author who is hugely supportive of other authors. If he’s not on your radar already, do take a few minutes to explore his blog and get a sense of the wonderful creative things he does.
What we’re going to get in a bit is a charming little insert block (wait for it….) If this was a reblog we’d start with the opening text of Mark’s post and then there would be a link, so I shall try to replicate that effect….
“Probably because there was no one competent available I was asked to record the Ominous Folk of Hopeless Maine performance at Rising Steam 2023. So I did…
The first song is about demonic devices, which is to say it is a song form the perspective of a demon forced to power a device. Possibly a steam roller, may be a kettle, or possibly a really over engineers rotary washing line. Please remember not to try this kind of thing at home unless you have a 5th level summoning circle and an emergency banishing spell to hand…