Port By The River, Sunday morning
Last day here, yesterday was a blast – packed house for Kathryn Williams, John Head, British Sea Power (some ace crowdsurfing by band members there) and The Loose Salute, Will Hodgkinson‘s ace ‘Ballad Of Britain’ lecture and Pete Reilly‘s Fish Fry DJ set. In other news, got plastered and now feel ropey. Talks beginning here [...]
Port By The River Saturday morning
Port Eliot Festival day 2. Last night we ended up getting pissed with Dominic West; psychic night fishing; helping to find a giant rabbit in a field (the son of the UKs biggest rabbit we found out after picking him up). We didn’t wild swim (although the folks who were doing it looked pretty damn [...]
Gone Fishing…
24 July 2009 // Caught By... //Miscellany //Music
We’re at Port Eliot Festival all weekend – if you’re down there, pop into the tent down by the estuary and say hello. We’ll be drinking Tribute, playing records, listening to bands and readings and basking in some incredible weather (well, we can but hope). We’ll try to update the site using new fangled mobile [...]
The Dalston Mill
Today I had one of those “I love it here” moments about London – a homespun revelation of sorts. I’ve been quite down on my chosen hometown recently, and not for any reasonable reason either – it’s a bit of an “it’s not you, it’s me” kind of thing. Anyway, I’d heard local talk about [...]
Colin Wilkin at St Judes
Out friends at the St Judes altered us to an exhibition they’ve currently got running at their gallery in Norfolk by the brilliant watercolourist Colin Wilkin. Simon at St Judes sent us these images and this information. A must see if you’re out that way. Colin Wilkin lives and works on the Suffolk/Essex border and [...]
Matt’s Bird Of The Week – Goldfinch
23 July 2009 // Matt's Bird of the Week
There nothing much more delightful than a charm of Goldfinches, chiming from thistle to thistle and branch to branch. If you see one you can rest assured that there will be a whole jolly troop on its way. I reckon it would be alright being a Goldfinch. Matt Sewell
Beck’s Record Club
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico ‘Sunday Morning’ from Beck Hansen on Vimeo. Opinion tends to be divided on Beck – you either get him or you don’t. Personally, I love the guy. Brilliant thing is, even if you’re a doubter, recently he seems to be doing his damnedest to win you over. Never one [...]
Letter From Arcadia
Joy Ride in a Bait Can ja those were terrible days you speak of, your floats marooned in the glare of a desert sun over stockbridge. in normandie the air was like the insides of a dog van, the heat a manacle you dragged round day and night. it sat like a swarm, it blinded [...]
Men And The Fields And Dovecote Press
Got this letter off our friend Andrew Male the other day, thought readers might be interested, wanted to forward it. Thanks to Andrew for the heads up… Dear Robin, Just so as you know, I sent a little message via the CBTR website about the reissue of Adrian Bell’s v. lovely Men and The Fields, [...]
Tales From The Inchbeg Fishing School
Hannah Hamilton on how things are going at The Inchbeg Fishing School; Oh, how fast nettles grow! I’ve only been away from the River Field for three weeks and the banks already look like nobody ever loved them, with stingers towering five, even six feet high, choking the bank for a half a mile. In [...]
