Julian’s Reviews

  • Hugely Evocative Personal Journey for Me

    This is amazing! I grew up in Barry and returned regularly in my late teens and twenties. Fog horns were such a familiar sound. During college holidays, I was lucky enough to do some volunteering on Flat Holm, one of a pair of islands in the Bristol Channel, where there was a huge Fog Horn station and a lighthouse to warn shipping about the treacherous waters. We used to sleep in a bunk house on the island, although, when the horn was in full swing, not much sleeping was going on. In Summer, it would also disturb the 30,000 pairs of nesting gulls and the volume of combined noise really was quite something.

    Thanks for creating this instrument, I'm going to really enjoy playing with it and reliving some of my happiest memories.

    Fun bonus fact - I also worked a summer season at the holiday camp as a redcoat :)

    23 July 2022