Drifting through... with Matt Nõmme

Port Talbot inspired one of my favourite films, Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'. Released in 1985, it's about dreaming is the only escape from a modern, oppressive, technologically obsessed world.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I've been obsessed with YouTube comments on Dylan Thomas video's, especially the ones under 'Do not go gentle into that good night', they are a window into people's hopes, fears, and prejudices, it's a beautifully nuts place to be.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Newport wetlands is a proper magic place in South Wales, I took a walk amongst the reeds and came back with memories of wild nights camping in the hills north of Cardiff.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

this was recorded in the immediate aftermath of Christmas, but I fell ill and everything went out the window. luckily the topic of grown men shouting unspeakable insults at eachother, while cwtched up in their warm coats is a timeless British tradition, so no harm in releasing this one late.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Asking the big questions on this year's bonfire night.Lewes Pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2021/nov/05/freedom-debauchery-dissent-lewes-bonfire-celebrations-in-picturesThe Gunpowder Plot | Guy Fawkes Documentary | Reel Truth Sciencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1b2w4GxBU0Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I watched the ring this week and it got me obsessing over the idea of haunted technology.The Big Ben thoughtographhttps://cdm16629.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/Eisenbud/id/305/rec/3Note: I have been posting video versions of these podcasts to YouTube, but having to film a video alongside the podcast proper slowed me down, so for the time being you have me yapping in your ears with no video to go with it.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It turns out Victorian people were tatted up much more than I ever thought.Convict tattoo search:https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/search?e0.type.t.t=root&e0._all.s.s=&e0.surname.s.s=&e0.given.s.s=Deserter tattoo:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_of_a_deserter.jpgJohn Jackson Criminal Records:https://talis.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fNAME_INDEXES$002f0$002fNAME_INDEXES:1404974/oneFrancis Robinson Cunt My Delight (right page):https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON18-1-26/CON18-1-26P134Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Rebecca riots are an infamous time in Welsh history, where farmers, struggling to make ends meet, decided to go on secret raids, where they dressed as women and burned the whole country down.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Back in 2016 I learnt how to freeze people and revive them in hundreds of years.It was weird, let's talk about it.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And another kid crosses the county linesthe kids near here whizzwith the fizzof electric bikes,crossing county linesdelivering grass,sherbet ,panda pops,dropping off packages                              which adults are too scared to,delivering things you can’t find in the local shop.delivering things that help a woman in a damp, Welsh, inner-city estate forget about the sound of the water drumming her warped, mossy roof.delivering things that teenagers huff, before puffing up their chests to fresh music in rotting parks.delivering things that pensioners want you hung for using, before oiling arthritic hinges with lukewarm whiskey.delivering nectar so sweet, a man can ignore the tragedy of the balaclava wrapped, cherub-faced delivery driver facing him,                             when tragedy drops off a ticket                                                                          for a trip out of this town.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The state of this visitwe peasants gazeas greasy hands from distant landsslap together and shake up our lives.as foie gras & faux pasare washed down with Bordeaux grapesolder than the states that guzzle them.& when the helicopters leave,ties loosened,& we breathe              what are we left with?empty plates              and fake tan under our fingernails.I had to write something about the Trump state visit didn't I?Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paper cuts and hi-vis thugs I watched hi-vis thugs round up the oldfor carrying placards with human dreamsnunsveteransteachersminersplumbersdragged them along double yellow linesand locked them behind Majorica pearl gates. Ever got a paper cut from a nunHolding a protest sign? Carves up your soulAnd serves you to her God for judgement. she’s not scaredof some corporeal cellheld together with taxesand mortal subservience. I swear If Jesus walked these streets todaya British copper would cuff that commie cuntand read him his rights, throw him in the back of a van,go through his laptoplookin for clues of conspiracies,of mania“this bloke thinks he’s the son of god”they’d saybefore having him sectioned. and when I’m at those gatesat the end of it alland St Peter says to me Ever got a paper cut from a nun? I’ll say. I’m not a copper. Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I saw my face on a missing posterlooked just like mestaring backbeardbrown eyes30’sthe family chose a good photo,it was some sort of birthdayor get togetherwishing he was still at that night.We live near the rivera lot of peopletake theslowcruisedown,over the weir,past the city,beyond the bay.They used to float out into the estuarybut they built a barrageand it stopped all that.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Soup season is hereand you should witness the soups round my housebig fuckin soupsbig stickin fuckin soupsfilled with carrotsparsnipsand onion. The thing stinks so muchpeople pass me in the streetand they can smell me,I can hear themsaying to themselves“Man, that motherfucker has got a nasty fuckin soup brewing in his house.”I drop blocks of cheese in itand wait for them fuckers to melt,got a thick cobto mop up what my spoon can’t scoop,and I mop up so muchslow cookedsoupthat by SpringI’ll be packin an extra a stone of soup weightand I won’t have a single fuckin regret.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

performative males.I’ve heard people complain about ‘performative males’but ain’t performing the best thing about being a male?I’ve heard a fart from a blokeamongst a group of menso beautifulevery man cried like it was Princess Di’s funeral.Felt the slap of handshakesfrom friendswhich reverberateteenage memoriesof walking train tracks,of playing football on summer grass,of tarmac peeling skinas we fallfrom skateboardsslidingdown suburban hills.I’ve heard the sigh from a blokeat his endwho only sighed for my ears,I sighed backsowe’re both still here.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Midnight pissThere’s something beautifulabout a midnight pissyou know?Rocking off of the mattress,hearing the percussion of my joints do its little drum solowhile I’m GRUNTING on vocals.The world is so violent early in the morningthe birds start to scream at eachotherthe streetlights are exhaustedfrom long winter shiftsand the curtains have that cool pre-dawn glow.I make a b-line for the bathroom so gracefullythat I convince myself that I could live life blind, no problem,before stubbing my toe on the dehumidifier.The smell of a midnight piss is like nothing else,the urea has mellowed                             and barrel aged.I use the sound of it hitting the bowlto make sure my aim is true,better not piss straight in the wateror you’ll wake the whole house up.I’d turn on the light,but where’s the thrill in that?Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

curtain twitchersthere are curtainsupanddownthe countrywhich sway with paranoia,through lockedand alarmedwindows,through doorbells with eyesin server roomsin America,who babble of radio hostsand day-time TV,waiting for the murderersand drug dealersand thugsand paedosand the reincarnation of Jimmy Saville,waiting for glory,waiting to be immortalisedon a Netflix documentaryon rolling newson breakfast showsto be the day-time chatterfor one Wednesday afternoon.Follow Matt on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattnommepoet/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattnommepoetWebsite: https://www.mattnomme.wales/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.