Pleasures Of July
The photography of Justin Partyka “Coasting” by Jonathan Raban “Lush Life” Richard Price The Wire season five on FX Port Eliot The Night Life Of Trees “The Thames Project” Kurt Jackson Fleet Foxes “Real Good Lovin’ Man” The Flairs Primal Scream & Linda Thompson – ‘Over & Over’ The Straight Story OST – Angelo Badalamenti [...]
Eric Demarsan – ‘Le Cercle Rouge’
by Jeremy Richey and originally posted on his ‘Moon In The Gutter‘ site Listen to the main theme (with respect to Gil Evans, surely?) 04-le-cercle-rouge I know the term ‘cool’ had been created long before Eric Demarsan stepped into a French studio in 1970 to score Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterful Le Cercle Rouge but everytime I [...]
The John Baker Tapes
29 July 2008 // Film/TV //Music
Trunk is issuing two CDs and a vinyl LP of very rare and mostly unreleased John Baker recordings. This includes rare radiophonics, unheard home recording, electro adverts. soundtracks, some jazz and library. Wow. Yeah, wow. 06-womans-hour-reading-your-letters The two John Baker CD albums will be released in late July (Volume One) and late August (Volume Two). [...]
Letters From Arcadia
‘It’s A Long Way To Tipperary’ DP Whilst you were searching for a still beating heart of darkness wrapped in a metal edged cardboard box at the back of the Orne wardrobe I’ve been out doing vanishing tricks in the B.C. Baitdropper, the underwater Vauxhall Verne, loaded with a ballast bucket of lobworms, a crate [...]
Pleasures Of July (Pure Piscator)
these are the pleasures of John Henderson of Pure Piscator ‘Oh Well‘ – Fleetwood Mac ‘Rockferry’ – Duffy ‘Love and Light’ – Proud Mary ‘Live at the Greek’ – Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes Little Death Orchestra ‘High Hopes’ – from Pink Floyd’s ‘Division Bell’ ‘Time changes Everything’ – John Squire ‘She bangs the [...]
Something For The Weekend
Chris Watson Workshop | London 27th – 28th July 2008 Monday 28th July (+ Sunday 27th July) 10am – 5pm (exact Sunday times to follow) Field Recording in & around an Urban River with Chris Watson Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB. Price: £60 (Students – £45) Following the success of [...]
Mercury Music
Another year, another list, another pub conversation. “What??”, “Who?”, “Why?” I’m just really pleased that Rachel Unthank & The Winterset have been nominated (for the Mercury Music Prize) for their record ‘The Bairns’. I love this record and they truly lit me up at Glastonbury last month. Genuinely beautiful stuff. But, hey, each to his [...]
Vodka & Carp Wedding Recipe
23 July 2008 // Food and Drink //Miscellany //On Water
by Katie Thompson The vodka drinking was into its second day and the English were getting grumpy. They’d been trying to keep up with the Poles to no avail. Now they were looking peaky and acting odd, and they still had another day of beer-drinking to go (the wedding party originally started in the second [...]
Alice Oswald – The Thing In The Gap Stone Stile
by Katherine Venn It is Alice Oswald who I credit with really getting me into poetry as an adult – both reading contemporary poetry, and also writing myself. I remember reading a piece about her and her book-length poem, Dart, some time in the summer of 2002, in The Times. I was so captured by [...]
A Different Kind Of Fishing
by Kevin Pearce I saw some headline the other day where the Tory leader was saying people who were addicted to drugs and drink had made their own lifestyle choices, so tough luck. Yeah, right. It’s as easy as that. Well, we all have our own addictions. Mine was records. I used to buy stacks [...]
Caught by the River