Welcome to Andy Oldfield's writing and music
site, inspired by the jackdaws,
waves and
dunes in Cornwall, UK
News
2026
February:
A new track Imagined
Games 3: The
Desert Dreams
(Djinn in the
Dunes)
available from
Feb 15 on Bandcamp and other platforms shortly afterwards.
2025
June:
There's now a
Audible version of the
anthology Passages
containing my
award-winning
story The
Tideline.
You can listen
to my story
only here.
A new track Imagined Games 2: Blazing Muzzles was released on Bandcamp on June 26 ahead of the other streaming platforms.
2024
October
22: The
Dog Who Buried
The Sea
flash fiction
got the audio
treatment
courtesy of
the fantasy
fiction
podcast PodCastle. Listen wherever
you pick up
your podcasts
or stream
directly Episode 862: Canine Companions.
Devin Martin's
reading is a
joy and Matt Dovey is as good a host
as he normally
is.
A new track, Imagined Games 1: We Waited To See If Dragons Are Real, was released on Bandcamp on October 17, and other streaming platforms later in the month.
#amwriting
Work
in progress is
a new novel -
a coming of
age story with
a speculative
fiction
flavour. Sort
of Catcher
In The Rye
meets War
Of The Worlds
and The
Kindness Of
Women via
a Dimension
Of Miracles,
Bill The
Galactic Hero
and Aesop's
Fables.
#amreading/rereading
Him
Geoff Ryman; Awakening
Icarus Hoode;
Folk Tales
Of The Cosmos
Janet Dowling;
Jumbo Back
To Nature
Helen
Cresswell; Lud-In-The-Mist
Hope Mirrlees;
The
Kindness Of
Women J G
Ballard; Fairy
Tale Alice
Thomas Ellis;
The Wood
Wife Terri
Windling; Upon
This Rock
David Marusek;
Small World
David Lodge.
2023
September: a
new EP, Elements, available for
download on Bandcamp
and streaming on all the main
platforms.
In July, a
second volume of my science
fiction and fantasy short stories
became available in paperback,
Kindle and Kindle Unlimited
versions via Amazon.
Torn Between The Dark And Light
features 17 stories, mostly
published in print magazines
between 1985 and 2019, with a
couple of previously unpublished
stories and some first published
online.
An
EP of music based on the
stories in the book is also
available on Bandcamp
and at all the music streaming
sites.
2022
2021
I
fired up the Moog Matriarch and the MakeNoise
0-Coast to write a piece of modular-synthesizer
styled electronica music based on my experiences
of dog-walking at night during lockdown. Nocturne
In The Time of Covid 19 is available on
YouTube. Available from March 12 on the main
streaming platforms.
2020
A
new album Interstices was released
on Samhain eve - October 30th. Ambient,
experimental electronica available for
purchase and streaming via Bandcamp
- streaming on all major services.
CD Baby is no longer selling downloads. Bandcamp is now the best source for purchases of my music - usually the cheapest too!
2019
A complete album version of my neo-classical
ambient composition Orbit is
now online at YouTube.
Music
video By A River
On The Edge Of Town is now online at
YouTube. 
Short
story video, Jack The
Giant Killer, uploaded to YouTube
Fiction
update: The Tideline won the Readers
Choice awards at NewMyth.com. Thanks to everyone
who voted
Short story, The Tideline, appears in issue 43 of NewMyths.com. Also reprinted in anthology Passages, available in print and on Kindle.
Album, Orbit, released onto all the usual streaming and download sites.