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Monday, 31 December 2018
Album of the Month: FALLEN TREES by Lubomyr Melnyk
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I only came across Lubomyr Melnyk at some point in 2015, when he released the masterly Rivers and Streams . The music felt fresh, intoxica...
Monday, 24 December 2018
The First Noel
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One of the most transcendental moments in my life took place in Cambridge three or four years ago. It was Christmas time, and as I was wa...
Friday, 21 December 2018
Book review: GRANT & I by Robert Forster
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'We were making music and living lives that demanded strings' With time, you discover a certain homogeneity about the figures w...
Friday, 14 December 2018
travelling notes (lxxviii)
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Money isn't worth anything when you travel. You spend it and you don't look back. Because if you do, those sinister foreign cash m...
Monday, 10 December 2018
Fatwa and Roald Dahl
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You can have your hobbits and your underage wizards all you want. Roald Dahl was the writer of my childhood. Not even Charlie & the C...
Friday, 7 December 2018
Pete Shelley (1955-2018)
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Pete Shelley was a great songwriter. In my world, Buzzcocks were everything that was good about punk, and I could never forget those long ...
Friday, 30 November 2018
Album of the Month: NEGATIVE CAPABILITY by Marianne Faithfull
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We have been getting quite a few of them lately. These last albums. These final cuts. From David Bowie to Leonard Cohen to Spiritualized (...
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