Richard Walker
18 November 2008 // Caught By...
Chris Ball hosts a Richard Walker evening. From Chris Ball Those of you who are interested in Richard Walker and his extraordinary angling life, especially to do with carp fishing might be interested in an evening being hosted by myself on Sunday 30th November 2008. I will have some of Walker’s hand-made tackle with me, [...]
Letter From Arcadia
There Be Dragons DP The clocks have long gone here, strictly living by the sun and the moon. The autumn fair threatening to be an autumn foul, after the frost the flood, deluge after deluge. Whilst you keep bodies in the freezer heavy rain here turns the ponds to leaf soup, natural acid [...]
Here Comes That Weird Chill
Maybe it’s my age, but until recently it seemed like I was having an enforced sabbatical from listening to music – some kind of aural gardening leave. I’d find myself trawling back through things I was listening to 10, 15 years ago, retreating to my musical comfort zones. New music was doing nothing for me [...]
Steve by the River
13 November 2008 // Caught By...
Stevie Phillips got himself a morning on the Kennet at Padworth yesterday. He had a couple of good barbel. His first and second. No pics of the fish but the river’s looking good and Steve’s buzzing.
John Sinclair in London
13 November 2008 // Books //Music
Tomorrow night in London Town, legendary MC5 manager and White Panther’s founder John Sinclair is in conversation at Waterstones in Gower Street. The talk is to celebrate two publications – Headpress 28, which Sinclair had edited and wrote for and 2009 publication It’s All Good: The John Sinclair Reader. Pre-release copies will be available on [...]
Beer of the Week
Its taken me ages to get round to writing this quick blurb. Apologies, but I wanted to be 100% sure. In fact, a couple of other beers I was going to mention have since fallen by the wayside. They’re in my personal slops tray. Thing is, I try a lot of beer and I tend [...]
This Summer Night
Robert Wyatt & Bertrand Burgalat get caught by the river… love dancing with Kieran Evans….
The History of Rhythm & Blues, parts 1 & 2
Bovril & Boilies
10 November 2008 // Caught By... //Food and Drink
pic by Jimi
The Green Man Festival
7 November 2008 // Miscellany //Music
Hey Jeff Brilliant to see you all last week – we feel honoured that we have now tasted a famous afternoon at the Heavenly Offices! Loving the Caught By The River site – I hope you enjoy the attached picture, it’s of the Usk slightly down stream from the festival site. I hear that Orange [...]
