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Something For The Weekend
18 July 2008 // Books //On Water
When I was seventeen in 1959, the lake was as wild a place as I knew. My friend Jeremy Hooker and I would arrive there at around 4 a.m. in early summer, ditch our bikes in the tangle of rhododendrons, and pick out the narrow path by torchlight as we tiptoed, in existentialist duffel coats, [...]
School Fetes Are The New Rock ‘n’ Roll
by John Moore On Saturday afternoon, as the sun finally broke through the north London clouds and blazed in all its glory, The John Moore Rock’n’Roll Trio played its first and perhaps only gig, at my daughter’s Primary School Summer Fete. Powered by Phil King on bass – fortuitously on a weekend off from his [...]
Central Station (Central Do Brasil) – A Film By Walter Salles
by Chris Roberts theme music here; 01-central-do-brasil1 FOR the first half, it’s all about faces, thousands of them, in a faceless crowd. The poor and needy and almost broken scrape around Rio De Janeiro’s Central Station, scratching a “life” if they’re “lucky”. Many go under, ruthlessly trampled underfoot. Dog eat dog. This is all implied, [...]
Chub on The Bain
this just in from Steve Phillips; Jeff Afternoon. So, how was the haunted pool? Any luck with the Leneys or their little cousins? Had a rather splendid morning poaching chub from the River Bain up in Lincolnshire yesterday. Private fishing? Pah, I’m sure Mr Millionaire farmer won’t mind me getting acquainted with his fish for [...]
Triumph
With the new season coming to the end of it’s first calendar month, I tempted fate and wore this T shirt on a visit to the Kennet at Aldermaston. As I stated back in March, as last season came to an end, I was still yet to catch a chub from a river. I’d had [...]
From The Other Side Of Essex
Underworld always used to be based in Essex, at least back when I knew them. In many ways, the place became a defining feature of their music – for want of a less flowery metaphor, the sound was coming from somewhere where the claustrophobia of the big city could be viewed from the expansive headspace [...]
‘Estuary Lines – An Essay On The Essex Coastline’
words by Ken Worpole, photos by Jason Orton Seawall kiosk/restaurant Canvey Island In January 2005 I was contacted by the photographer Jason Orton asking if I would collaborate with him on a new project. He had been commissioned to produce a series of photographs of the Essex coastline by ExDRA, the Essex development agency. He [...]
‘Gone Cuckoo – An Afternoon With Chris Yates’
Words by John Andrews, photos by William Yates It was summer 1978 and I was fishing the last swim in Lodge Pond, the one up by the swamp, not much of a swim more of a window on a reed bed and not much else. Tired of catching gudgeon and stunted roach under Winfield floats [...]
Country Got Soul
11 July 2008 // Music //On Water
Listen to Larry Jon Wilson, “Shoulders”, here [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Our good friends at the record label ‘1965‘ (a fine vintage) continue doing what it is they do best – releasing cool records, flicking the finger, smiling for God’s sake – by releasing a new record by Larry John Wilson. His [...]
