Touched is an independent creative venture based in London SE21, between the Gipsy Hill and the Crystal Palace, the online home of The Children, John Gibbens and Armorel Weston. Making music and poetry is our occupation. There’s all sorts of art, sounds and literature around the site, so please explore.

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NEW Orpheus Ascending
a poem by John Gibbens

Smokestack Books, 1 March 2012

Buy signed copies at discount price

RECORDINGS
Albums by The Children
and The Mind Shop,
featuring Armorel Weston

WRITINGS
The Nightingale’s Code and other books
and pamphlets by John Gibbens
from Touched Press

THE CHILDREN
Gigs, galleries,
biographies

Updated 18th May 2012

A Song for Today
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The words are here:
Holy Hill

The Improvised Vision
A gallerxy of musicians

EVENTS The Children at play in the summer: Islington, Covent Garden, Glastonbury

SOME RECENT WORK

Musical prose including

• Steady Rollin' Man: a revolutionary critique of Robert Johnson With musical examples

• There’s Hot Stuff Here and It’s Everywhere I Go A Young Person’s Introduction to Modern Times

Miscellaneous poems including

• The Gun Site An allotment poem: lines from the beginning of Spring

“No agitators, no clubs, no epidemical errors, ever were, or will be, fatal to social order in any nation. Nothing but the guilt of the upper classes, wanton, accumulated, reckless, and merciless, ever overthrows them. Of such guilt they have now much to answer for – let them look to it in time.” – Ruskin