Shadows & Reflections – Dexter Petley
22 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to it’s end, our friends and collaborators look back and share their moments; there are two winters in a year. they open for one life as they shut on the other. for the scavenger they calibrate instinct & drive metabolism. for the novelist they slam the laptop lid & [...]
Not Caught By The River by John Niven
21 December 2007 // Caught By...
The piece below is written by a proper old friend of mine, John Niven. He’s a funny guy. He makes me laugh. Actually, he makes me cry. Actually, he makes me piss myself. Just recently this has happened on several occasions. The first occasion was page 80 of his new novel, “Kill Your Friends”, the [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Ted Kessler
20 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to it’s end, our friends and collaborators look back and share their moments; Despite this year’s unspectacular personal vintage, there have still been Caught By The River moments to strip from the mind’s eye and stick in the scrapbook. Cycling across Walthamstow Marshes with my wife as the mid-summer [...]
Greetings From Down Under
19 December 2007 // Caught By... //Miscellany
hey Jeff greetings from Down Under. just spent the last few days in Hyams Beach, couple of hundred clicks south of Sydney. Unexpected and very weird highlight on the way down was a stop my brother planned in Austinmer, just near Woolongong (the names are great, right?). Stopping in for lunch (barramundi fillets and chips [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Dave Bedford
19 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to it’s end, our friends and collaborators look back and share their moments; Being happy and healthy, still doing what I love and being with the one I love, other than that the high point by miles was stepping back onto the bank…. I used to fish once a [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Andres Lokko
18 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to it’s end, our friends and collaborators look back and share their moments; listening: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba. Burial. The very best of Éthiopiques. Skull Disco Soundboy Punishments. the Tectonic Plates comp. Pacific!. Anna Järvinen. Brazil 70. Holy Fuck. Studios remix of Brown Piano by A Mountain Of [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Robin Turner
17 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to it’s end, our friends and collaborators , look back and share their moments; “My Caught By The River moment of 2007 mainly came served in a pint sized glass. It was filled to the brim, gently foaming and always mildly intoxicating. It came in various hues, various strengths [...]
The River’s Voice, Common Ground
From the preface: The River Meander must be a wonderful sight, its Turkish curves so tantalising that it has given the English language a verb and a noun. King Tantalos, up to his neck in Phrygian water that receded whenever he bent his head to drink, gave us the teasing verb. Intricate language and stories [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Jon Savage
15 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to it’s end, our friends and collaborators , look back and share their moments; “I’m currently obsessed with Blind Willie McTell’s “Statesboro Blues”. I’ve had a taste for this kind of music ever since Paul Oliver put out his great “The Story of the Blues” comp in 1969. After [...]
Shadows & Reflections – John Richardson
14 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to it’s end, our friends and collaborators , look back and share their moments; “The first day of the trout season at Farmoor Reservoir, near Oxford, a 250acre concrete bowl fed by the Thames. A day when you experience all the weather variations nature can throw at you, you [...]
