Remember Roger Eagle
30 April 2009 // Music //Remembrance
The Twisted Wheel by Kavel Rafferty from ‘Remember Roger Eagle‘. Kavel has illustrated and designed Mondays download. I think it’s called a labour of love. You can see more of her work at the addresses below; Journal website
Water Water Everywhere
29 April 2009 // Miscellany //On Water
My brother sent me this the other day and it is ace. From the BLDG Blog (click here for large scale printable version of the illustration), it’s a prospective utopian future, one where the lost rivers of London – from the Fleet to Hackney Brook – have resurfaced and been incorporated into the grand scheme [...]
Remember Roger Eagle
28 April 2009 // Music //Remembrance
(illustration by Kavel Rafferty) Our ‘Remember Roger Eagle‘ project hit the blogs last night. This just in from Isis on the ‘Soul Scource‘ forum; “I worked for Roger at Erics late ’76 till ’78, and when it came to choosing bands to play at the club he had a nose for talent like you wouldn’t [...]
The Lost World of Mr Hardy
28 April 2009 // Miscellany //On Water
The Lost World of Mr Hardy (trailer) from Trufflepig Films on Vimeo. a film by Andy Heathcote & Heike Bachelier review by Jon Berry When I first saw the publicity for The Lost World of Mr. Hardy, at last year’s CLA Game Fair, I dismissed it as one for the collectors; an hour-and-a-half of grown [...]
Remember Roger Eagle
27 April 2009 // Music //Remembrance
Next Monday, May 4th, is the tenth anniversary of the passing of Roger Eagle. OK, here comes a curve ball. Back in January I hit the google button in search of a photo of Roger Eagle to accompany a post by Kevin Pearce on CBTR. Kevin had mentioned Roger in issue 2 of his ‘Your [...]
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Seemingly it’s not just me that’s been obsessed by birds recently, it’s everyone. Scanning the Guardian Review section a few weekends ago, I was intrigued to read about something called “the Springwatch effect”. Apparently it’s responsible for a forest of bird twitching literature and is finally making ornithology hip. I certainly think I’ve fallen victim [...]
Boy Wonder
Mathew Clayton on James Robert Baker’s, ‘Boy Wonder’; When you stumble across something fantastic entirely by chance, encumbered by the views of critics or hype of any kind, the pleasure you get from it is always greater. In the mid 90s I was leaving the offices of the publisher 4th Estate and was led to [...]
Slow Down London
Here at CBTR we’re all about stopping or at least slowing down to appreciate life. You only get one shot at it and most of us are far too busy and stressed to realise that. Whether it be simply sitting down and reading, looking up and appreciating the architecture or even going fishing – it’s [...]
Home Made Record Sleeves
Stephen Fowler and Rocky Alvarez are exhibiting their collection of home made record sleeves Private view 6.30 this coming Thursday night (23rd), at; Franklin Alvarez 53 Columbia Road, London E2 7R6 the exhibition will be on until Sunday 26th April. selections of the collections have been printed and bound in three volumes.These will be available [...]
Alan Sillitoe
21 April 2009 // Books //Film/TV
With the news that the BFI have just released the ‘definitive’ DVD (and Blu Ray) version of the films ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ and ‘Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ here’s an interview that Mark Hodkinson (of Pomona Books) did last year with the author of the stories that became said films, Alan Sillitoe. [...]
Caught by the River