Now available to buy as a limited edition 10” vinyl release (with a bonus comic book page by the legendary John Ridgway), or as a digital download, Fellfoul is the story of a forgotten film, part of which was filmed in Jenner’s Field, opposite Eleanor Wood’s house. So why does no-one else remember it? And why hasn’t Eleanor ever noticed the hardy band of enthusiasts who gather there every Sunday to recreate their favourite scenes..?
After just two releases, Mulgrave Audio have carved out their own niche in the underpopulated world of audio drama, delivering a pair of fascinating, spellbinding journeys into worlds a step to the side of our own. Remarkably, though, and although the two share a hauntological sensibility, the two presentations are also very different.
Starring Aja Dodd as Eleanor, Fellfoul is written by Andrew Orton, one of three men behind Mulgrave, and comes complete with a soundtrack from hauntological legends Belbury Poly that takes Dodd’s comfortable delivery of Orton’s script and enhances it with a special flavour not available in your common or garden audio spice shop.
If it has one drawback it’s that it’s a little too short, but that’s only an issue because the twelve minutes, thirty-six seconds it does deliver is so compelling, time spent in a world so familiar to those whose lives have not quite worked out exactly how they hoped (and probably they had no idea what they wanted their lives to be) and who yearn for something special to happen.
This is just the start for Mulgrave, with much more planned for 2024 and beyond, and on the evidence of their efforts so far, the future looks very bright, even if the light is filtered through a wonderfully strange filter…
Fellfoul is available from mulgraveaudio.bandcamp.com/album/fellfoul
