Saturday February 04, 2012

Caught By The Times

30 May 2009 // Caught By...

The Times runs extracts from the Caught By The River book today – you get essays from Jarvis Cocker, Irvine Welsh and Jon Savage – it’s in the colour supplement, you can read them here too. If you missed it, yesterday The Times ran a feature on the website written by CBTR contributor (and mate) [...]

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Psychemagik By The River

29 May 2009 // Caught By... //Music

Just a quick one to say – there’s a new comp due to get mailed out to subscribers next week, lovingly put together by Psychemagik – perfect summer listening. If you’re not subscribed, click the box in the top right hand corner and sign up – if you are, tell your friends to get onboard [...]

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Caught By The River – A Collection of Words on Water

28 May 2009 // Books //Rivers Book

Compiled and Edited by Jeff Barrett, Robin Turner and Andrew Walsh Press Release; From the Thames to the Telford, the Wear to the Wellsbourne; from canoe adventures to iceskating, from angling to day-dreaming, Caught by the River is an exceptional new take on nature writing. Here, the writers take you on a journey down some [...]

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Bonefish

28 May 2009 // Film/TV //On Water

I first came across Charles Rangeley – Wilson on TV a few years ago in his BBC series ‘ The Accidental Angler’. At first I wasn’t sure what to make of him and I found the first couple of episodes a bit dull. My CBTR colleague Andrew disagreed – ‘good bloke’ he said – and [...]

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Water Birds on the Radio

27 May 2009 // On Water

Caught by the River contributor Chris Watson (just wait until you hear the mixes he has done for our soon come pod-casts), currently in deepest North Wales recording for Springwatch, has recorded birds for a new BBC Radio 4 series, ‘A Guide to Water Birds‘. Whilst on the subject of birds, I’m currently reading a [...]

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Fishing Against Fascism

26 May 2009 // Miscellany

We’ve never really seen this site as politically motivated – frankly I think part of the reason we turn to the banks is to avoid thinking about duck islands, dung and claiming expenses for strop movies. However, as most of us are of the generation where The Clash playing Rock Against Racism was a life [...]

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Do You Love Reggae Music?

25 May 2009 // Music

this one has to be shared. a great selection and a killer mix. Goes well with sunshine; Artist Steven Harrington has put together an exclusive mix for Incase and Arkitip. Featuring hand picked tracks from Steven’s collection, Bang-Ga-Wrong is a 45-minute mix of early Jamaican dancehall, dub and roots reggae reworked and mixed with help [...]

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You Wait Ages For One…

23 May 2009 // Miscellany

“(Long’s) art reminds us of the simple strangeness of the walked world, of the surprises and beauties that landscape can spring on the pedestrian. It’s good that Long is out there, knackering another pair of boots, singing Johnny Cash to himself as he walks the line.” Robert Macfarlane writes a gloriously evocative piece about Richard [...]

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Heaven, Earth, Five Dials and Morrissey

22 May 2009 // Miscellany

We’ve talked at length about the artist Richard Long on the site a few years back. The start of next month sees the Tate open the doors on a long overdue retrospective (June 3rd at Tate Britain). If you are a gallery member, you should have received this month’s Tate Etc magazine which features brilliant [...]

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Should I Put It In My Pants?

21 May 2009 // Music //On Water

Gone Fishin’ With John Lurie, Tom Waits & Pals by Nigel Smith. Originally published on Nigel’s blog Carnival Saloon a passionate and knowledgeable site devoted to country, soul & rock ‘n’ roll. Some TV channels seem to devote the majority of their airtime to the “Fifty Greatest/Funniest/Daftest/Inspiring/Etc Moments of All Time” but I don’t recall [...]

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