We are C÷M, a band with two members (Craig Winstanley, Jonathan Moss), one based in Lancashire the other in West Yorkshire. We write all our own material (apart from the very occasional cover) and play mostly Indie-Folk music, oscillating between melodic and interludes of orchestral/ambient/experimental. We have performed more complex sets (backing tracks for drums, bass and strings etc, guitars, voices, saxophone, flute) with accompanying video images (but can be done without), and acoustic sets (voices, guitar and flute).
Review for one of the shows: https://thegmreviewer.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/c-div-m-from-where-to-here/
“…cleverly pulls levers and twists knobs in the fertile mind that allows it to. C and M are two incredibly talented musicians just letting content flow. They deliver an improvisation piece that becomes immediately personal given that this exact output can never be recreated again…– this is instrumental indie folk and it’s all very good. It’s also very unique, deftly cruising around the more mainstream indie / folk landscape”.
Recent performance:
Diggers Festival – Bolton Bash, Bolton Socialist Club (26th July 2025). Here’s a song recorded live (called So Far):
Previous performances include:
Small Seeds, Huddersfield (17th Feb 2023)
Watershed, Slaithwaite (24th March 2023)
Kings Arms, Salford (1st Nov 2023)
Performed live as part of the Brighton Fringe (6th and 7th May 2022), St Augustine’s Centre, Brighton.
Performed live as as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival 2021 (18th and 25th September 2021): https://greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk//
Venue: The Empty Space, Salford https://theemptyspace.live
Videos from live shows:
Videos from the 25th September 2021 show:
Trailers/tasters..
Trailer videos:
From the Brighton show:
Trailer videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uvbz23L3xg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqozYW2z4U
See https://allopenelectrics.com/2021/03/19/from-where-to-here/
C÷M: From Where? To Here
Birth: A beginning; post gestation; fruit of collaboration. Images introduce the idea of the unfamiliar within the familiar, a theme that recurs. Lyrics set the scene of disturbing underlying politics, revisited throughout.
Thunderstorm: Incorporates recordings from a storm. Clouds gather…
Shifting Sands: Beware Straw Man, Law Man, Flag Man, Bogey Man, fooling fools.
Water Tower: Ethereality in Romanesque Revival sandstone; journey through time-space.
Echo Chamber: Addresses the entire history of human communication since the dawn of time (conclusion: we aren’t very good at it); imagery of being trapped in the chamber; WARNING: contains references to an annoyed void, a thing best to avoid…
Forgotten conversations: Recordings of voices reciting the phonetic alphabet, scrambled and reimagined. Bubbles of turbulent communication; Incorporating The Curve: musings on past, present and future; It takes all your nerve to flatten the area under the curve.
Reflections: Rebirth; A life story (part one); Following the path of least resistance.
Sunrises: The camera lies; Awakening; Improvisations over orchestral backing track; Images derived from manipulations of multiple photographs of sunsets, taken on a country walk. Hundreds of images from this walk are used to accompany Rustic Silence: The country as escape; fantasy; will CRUSH you again; ‘always different, always the same’.
Journeys from Where? To Here: Journey through space-time; Unconventionally rhythmic backdrop for trombonic improvisation and rhyming unhinged polemic (Cheer the nicely spoken thief, kick the gift horse in the teeth).
So Far: Lost in her dreams; We find the sun.
Who are we Here? And who are we There? Using an artificial intelligence system developed by Dr Anna Djambo (University of Leicester), recordings of neural network representations of our musical DNA are used to play a variety of sounds, accompanied by improvisations. Each performance will be unique. Incorporates Whistling Warriors: Bravely fighting phantom wars, they haunt the modern mediascape.
Waiting For You: Still waiting; Images return to the familiar as unfamiliar, using only photographs taken of the surface of a garden table; Portals to the next level.
Quorum Sensing/Sunsets: Community; we are legion (greater than the sum of parts); an ending and offer of hope. Images derived from photographs of sunsets.
C÷M are Craig Winstanley (C), ex-scientist released for good behaviour, embarking on journeys new and Jon Ogara (M), experimentalist and conceptualist.
C: Guitars, vocals, images, arrangements, melodies
M: Flute, saxophone, guitar, trombone, backing vocals, AI experiments
All songs and images are by C÷M.
REVIEW: https://thegmreviewer.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/c-div-m-from-where-to-here/
Craig Winstanley Music & Images 