Facebook Competition
Thanks to everyone who entered Friday’s competition on Facebook. The three folk lucky enough to win copies of the new Stephen Moss book, ‘Birds Britannia’, are: Tamsin Hughes, Richard Havers and Stephen Rutt. Congratulations. The books will be in the post on Tuesday. Be sure to ‘like’ Caught by the River on Facebook. News, views [...]
Sensoria
Sensoria Music & Film Festival, Sheffield. 29 April – 8 May. Composer in residence, Bill Drummond. Full programme details can be found HERE.
Exit Stage Left
by Robin Turner At the end of last year, three of the biggest names from the ‘golden age’ of dance music (i.e. the bit in the mid ’90s when I was out on the floor four nights a week and the records were addictive and challenging in equal measures) found themselves attached to the kinds [...]
Pleasures of….April
by John Andrews The Pleasures of an April in Arcadia have been many and almost overwhelming. This year’s explosion of blossom made the winter a memory once and for all. Down every lane, along every avenue in London and especially outside John Betjeman’s house on Highgate West Hill you could see it by day and [...]
The Bird Effect Diaries
27 April 2011 // The Bird Effect
The diary of the making of a film and an on going fascination with birds and their accompanying cast of human characters. By Ceri Levy. April 27th 2011 To be truthful this year has been a shockingly bad one for me in so many ways. I was taken really ill in January and am only [...]
The Return of the Native
illustration by Pete Starling. by Cheryl Tipp. Every morning I cast my eyes upwards in anticipation and scan the sky. Have they returned yet? Is there any sign of those black silhouettes sweeping through the air? Can I hear that high-pitched ‘scree’? I’m still waiting for my first Swift sighting of 2011 but any day [...]
Nick’s Pics
The Lakes, Luck and Lenticular Cloud. Words & pictures by Nick Small. This photograph of a rather strange, beautiful sky, seen here exactly as the camera recorded it, is the result of a shutter-click, yet so much more. A few weeks ago I went to the Lake District, tasked with making a short film for [...]
As part of the ongoing effort to spread the word and to enable a little more engagement with our readers we are trying to encourage folk to sign up to the Caught by the River Facebook page. On it you will find daily music links, plus news, competitions and other bits and pieces that we [...]
Ghosts of Gone Birds: Liverpool
24 April 2011 // The Bird Effect
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Roach of Wessex
by Adam Chetwood Illustrations by Tom Hubmann A Roach is a very special creature indeed, a fish with the most sophisticated style of living and a species that is high on the list of reasons for my obsession with angling. The achievement of catching even the smallest of Roach, for many, is an incredible feeling [...]
