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AS OF last autumn, Gareth Davies-Jones has been in residence at the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in Newcastle Upon Tyne, where he’s been digging through the institute’s archives and collections for a unique songwriting project dubbed The Seam.
The result is the recently released album The Usual Quarterly Days and Davies-Jones is currently on the road touring songs from it around the north east.
He couldn’t have picked a better place to do his research than the mining institute, a cathedral to mining safety.
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