ACA Bulletin
Starting today, the ACA is launching its special 60th anniversary fund raising auction. Over 140 fantastic lots, generously donated by our supporters, are now available for you to bid for via our website and there are full details in our latest Annual Report, which will be with you in the next week. There are some [...]
Same Old Faces, Same Old Faces
We’ve had a great response to Mark Hodkinson’s piece on Barry Hines (“German Bight”, May 7th), including a great clip sent in by Steve Philips. Congratulations are due to Steve for landing his first carp in six years with a 14lb common from an Oxfordshire estate lake, yesterday. I should add that Steve is neither [...]
Numero Group – A Small Gesture.
15 May 2008 // Music
Over recent months I’ve become a big fan of Alan Furst’s entertainments. The series of stories set in and around the Second World War, Paris and what was known as middle Europe. They’re wonderfully romantic romps, filled with subterfuge, solitude, sabotage and espionage. Small people with big ideas, fighting back against the fascist threat, specifically, [...]
Lost Youth
Don’t know if you’ve seen today’s Guardian and the article on George Plemper’s newly found photos of south east London in the ’70s. For me, it was like seeing ghosts. Here’s a link to more of the photos,I hope. Kevin Pearce The Outside Of Everything
Chords By The River – Dread meets Anglers upstream
13 May 2008 // Music
This CD was kindly compiled for us by the Don, an amazing collection of bankside music and the first in our occasional series, Chords By The River. Talking of Don, he’s just had a brilliant documentary, ‘The Blues Dance’, on Radio 4. The programme tells the story of the Blues Dance or Jamaican private club [...]
Caught By The Reaper – Fred J Taylor
Fred J. Taylor, 1919 – May 8, 2008 By Keith Elliott, from Fishing Lines, The Independent Everyone seems to have a Fred J Taylor story. My favourite one concerning the great man happened on a cold, wet winter’s day, the sort of day when sensible fishers sit in front of a fire and think: “Glad [...]
The Damned United
11 May 2008 // Books
Tonights South Bank Show (ITV, 10.50) on David Peace’s genius book “The Damned United” has got to be worth a look; The Damned Utd focuses on Clough failing – in the wilderness between Derby and Nottingham. At Leeds he is tortured, haunted, sleepless, entirely alone – without Peter Taylor, who refused to join him – [...]
Mowing Days Are Here Again
ja since your last glimpse of the winter underworld on the heath, the green fuse blew. from squelcher to scorcher in a week of spawning bream. grass growing under your feet as you mow, the oaks beat the poplars into leaf and there’s cuckoo spit on the willows. spring like a rapid deployment force in [...]
Unfinished Business?
note left on Tony Wilson’s grave, as seen yesterday thanks to Rofey
The Bard Of Salford.
9 May 2008 // Music
Paul Morley, radio 4 documentary on John Cooper Clarke Listen Here Beasley Street. Far from crazy pavements – the taste of silver spoons A clinical arrangement on a dirty afternoon Where the fecal germs of Mr Freud are rendered obsolete The legal term is null and void In the case of Beasley Street In the [...]
