Colin Robinson found himself drifting away from the ambient niche he set out to explore when he started recording the tracks for What I Did On My Holidays, the new album by his one-man avant-garde project Jumble Hole Clough. He could not resist adding a bunch of quirky instrumentals as well, which makes sense after he stumbled upon a picture of two comics and a musician and get the creative juices flowing and write A Photo Of Morecambe & Wise With Bert Weedon At A Tripe Stall In Great Yarmouth.
The two parts of the upbeat The Dockers' Umbrella set the stage for As Far From The Coast As Feasible, bringing a sense of foreboding that a shit load of water is making its way in land - Robinson lives in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, a town that has had its fair share of flooding. There's My Cousin With His Hankie On His Head was obviously inspired by Monty Python acting silly in their Gumbys guise. 2020 As Seen From 1960 is a retro-Sci-Fi theme, using old school effects to capture the current lockdown when viewed as a nightmare scenario from the past.