Caught By The Quietus
Really lovely plug for the book on brilliant music and arts site The Quietus – they’ve also got extracts from the Bill Drummond piece on the Penkiln Burn. Ace photo of Bill by Tracey Moberly who runs our favourite pub in London town.
Pictures from the launch party..
here’s a few pics that Wendy took at Monday night’s book launch. There’s a lot more so we’ll archive them all in the ‘rivers book’ section of the site over the weekend. Hannah Hamilton, reading from ‘River Man Jon Berry, reading from ‘The River Alness’ Bill Drummond, reading from ‘The Penkiln Burn’
Libraries Gave Us Power
Since we’ve been yakking on about our book for the past however long, this seemed like a nice end of week story.
This Morning’s Today
18 June 2009 // Caught By... //Rivers Book
Caught By The River was proud to be featured on the Today Programme on Radio 4 this morning. Click here to listen again on iPlayer – we’re about 2 hours 48 minutes into the show.
Love Letters To The Past
We had our minds blown by this site where classic record sleeves are lovingly reimagined as dusty Pelican paperbacks. Great to see four records that people at Caught by The River have worked on back in the day…
The Dark Mountain Project
One of the nicest things about launching the book on Monday was being able to put faces to names, to humanize email contacts who we’ve been talking to with frothing enthusiasm for the last year or so… and to finally get to buy people a pint. One of the authors who contributed to the book [...]
River (book) Reads
Our friend Neil took some snaps on Monday at the Caught By The River book launch at Foyles. Hannah Hamilton reading ‘River Man‘. Bill Drummond reading from ‘The Penkiln Burn‘. As previously noted, Foyles have the only signed copies of the book – hit them up if you want one – I’d suggest calling the [...]
The Fishing Party
This week just gets better. At last, the rarely shown BBC Play For Today from 1972, starring the late, great Brian Glover, is up on You Tube. This has been brought to our attention by Friend of the River Mr Antony Brook, who we thank from the bottom of our hearts. Here’s Part One with [...]
New Season/Sore Heads
The sensible ones amongst us left early to hit the banks, trying to catch fish/some sunshine on the first day of the season. Others of us are nursing awful hangovers after the Caught By The River book launch at Foyles last night. Thanks to everyone who showed up, it was a brilliant night, we’ll post [...]
Ready, Steady, Go
to those of you about to mount your choppers with some honey paste wrapped in a wet tea-towel and a pocketful of dough bobbins stuck to a rabbit’s tail, arcadia’s dp wishes you all a bumper 16th
