★Hot Air Release

2000 release, cheap and lovely "No really, she's laughing with you... With all the sneaky charm of a car commercial that leaves you inexplicably in tears, this latest romp from People Like Us serves up the emotional complexity of, say, the complete works of Proust, crammed into bite-sized snacks for the easily distracted. In some sense Vicki Bennett's work could be seen as companion volumes to Neil Postman's incisive mid-eighties critique "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age …

"South of a disused caravan site (elevation 225) and north of a sheep wash (elevation 238) is a point where electrified wires descend from a hilltop and meet. Mr Harrison has been recording at this focus in varying weather conditions over several years using piezo-transducers amd portable MD equipment. By this simple technique the entire hillside is turned into a microphone." Recorded 1997-1999 at Drone Hill.