Caught By The Reaper – James Crumley
30 September 2008 // Books //Remembrance
James Crumley – October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008 Back in January, James Oldham wrote here about his friend and mentor Brian Case. Yesterday, James and I had lunch with Brian. I had met him only once before, in 1994, when in my capacity as publicist for Primal Scream, I managed to somehow convince [...]
Pleasures of September – British Sea Power
29 September 2008 // Pleasures
British Sea Power let us in on the things that dipped their floats during September; The films of Jean Painlevé. As collected on Science Is Fiction/The Sounds Of Science, with a score by Yo La Tengo. A very poetic take on marine biology. Painlevé also worked as “chief ant handler” on Luis Buñuel’s surrealist benchmark [...]
Review: Out of the Blue by Chris Yates
27 September 2008 // Books //On Water
(pic by William Yates) This patient, laconic set of fisherman’s reflections is nature writing at its most alive, says Adam Nicolson in today’s Telegraph Fishing is “the contemplative man’s recreation”, Izaak Walton wrote in the 1650s – a retreat from public life and civil war into a kind of insulated bliss. Angling was Walton’s “imployment [...]
Letters From Arcadia
Birdman Spotted Again DP There he was again in the oak wood above Moors Pond, the Birdman of La Brisardiere, having taken the wrong turning along the Seine and come up in an old bomb crater in the Kent countryside. From there he took the Hop Pickers path he knew from ancient memory until he [...]
Caught By The Reaper – Earl Palmer
25 September 2008 // Remembrance
October 25, 1924 – September 19, 2008 Earl Palmer; One of the greatest drummers of all time. Check this unbelievable, selected discography, compiled by his friend and regular rhythm partner Carol Kaye Singles – 1947-1949 Dave Bartholomew “Dave’s Boogie Woogie”, “Stardust”, others, Fats Domino “The Fat Man”, “Detroit City Blues”. 1950 Dave Bartholomew “Good Jax [...]
Beer of the Week
25 September 2008 // Food and Drink
Mathew Clayton drinks ‘Hophead’ In 1994 the Dark Star Brewery began life in the basement of the Evening Star, a Brighton pub a stone’s throw away from the railway station. They quickly found they could not keep up with demand and moved up the A23 to larger premises on a farm just outside the village [...]
Train Driver in Eye-Liner
24 September 2008 // Music //Remembrance
A tribute concert for Nick Sanderson featuring Jesus & Mary Chain, Black Box Recorder, British Sea Power & Earl Brutus DJs. The Jesus & Mary Chain are set to headline a one-off show in commemoration of musician & railwayman Nick Sanderson who sadly passed away on June 8th of this year. The show, to take [...]
First Barbel of the Season
24 September 2008 // Caught By...
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Wild Combination
24 September 2008 // Film/TV //Music
A Portrait of Arthur Russell Tickets are now available for the London showings of ‘Wild Combination‘, Matt Wolf’s acclaimed documentary on Arthur Russell. It’s on at The ICA, London, 26 Sep – 5 , 10 – 12, 18 – 19 Oct 2008. Arthur Russell was a farm boy from Oskaloosa who moved to New York, [...]
Norman Whitfield
23 September 2008 // Music //Remembrance
Bill Brewster pays his respects to Norman Whitfield, who died last Tuesday; Norman Whitfield was black music’s first auteur. His work as a studio producer, firstly at Motown where he was a staffer for over nearly 15 years and later independently, revolutionised the production of soul music. Alongside Sly Stone, a significant influence on Whitfield, [...]
Caught by the River