Bio
​​John Biglands is a writer of short(ish) stories and poetry. He lives in Shipley West Yorkshire near to some beautiful beech trees. He has a wife and two children - who are all supportive of his writing - and a cat called Mable - who doesn’t really care either way but enjoys stepping on the keyboard at critical moments. His short stories have been published in Existere, Cranked Anvil, Havok and Every Day fiction. He has been long-listed for the Bath short story award and for Writers of the Future. His stories have been included in the Cranked Anvil short story anthology How Far The Distance, and the Northern Short Story Festival Academy anthology Permanent Emotion.
He also makes a decent Panneer curry.
Music
When John first moved to Bradford he started playing music with a man called Dave Brons who would become one of his very closest friends. Twenty years later Dave is an internationally recognised composer and plays some of the most beautiful electric guitar solos ever penned (or picked). John is lucky enough to be one of the musicians who gets to write and play music with Dave.
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The music of BRONS is based on The Lord of the Rings, combines celtic and prog rock influences (because prog rock isn't niche enough on it's own!). The music is sometimes ethereal, sometimes epic, but always beautiful. Dave incorporates celtic instruments like uillen pipes along with full choirs orchestras and brass bands in his music - but strictly no banjos! You really have to hear it to know what I'm talking about, and I strongly suggest you do. You can do that here. Here are a couple of my favourites...
​John also plays in the functions band Motif. This is a different gig entirely. They are a high energy party band with a full on horns section. You can hear what we sound like here.
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John also likes to folk it up sometimes and plays in a folk band called Wovenchord with the musical genius (seriously actual genius), and fellow BRONS musician Daniel Day, and his sister Katie. We sound like this.
Science
For a day job John works as a medical imaging researcher and NHS scientist type person (Yes that is a thing). If you want to read any of his publications you can find them here. They’re not exactly page turners and there are very few jokes but they do feature lots of big words and have some cool pictures. You win some, you lose some.
He also writes for Elife science magazine (still no jokes but slightly less big words). You can read some of his articles here.