‘Wild swimming’ – it’s a bit like calling lawn mowing wild vacuuming
Despite his initial scepticism, Tom Cox has found himself seduced by the magic of wild swimming. Even though I always made it clear that I only used the place for its swimming pool, people often seemed a little surprised when I told them I had a gym membership. I’m not out of shape, so I [...]
Newport Folk Festival Live
Fans of Gillian Welch, M. Ward, Mavis Staples and Emmylou Harris might want to head over to the NPR website and listen to live broadcasts of their sets at this weekends Newport Folk Festival. Gillian Welch is playing today at 4.45pm (eastern time) which, without wanting to get all Spinal Tap is, I think, 9.45pm [...]
Caitlin Rose
T Shirt by Caitlin Rose. The last song from her awesome set at Port Eliot last Friday (albeit filmed in Mcr a few nights later). Holy shiver time. (thanks to Billy)
Caught by the Applecart
30 July 2011 // Events //Music
The Applecart Festival in Victoria Park looks like our kind of lazy day out. The line up includes such Friends of the River as Saint Etienne, Andrew Weatherall, Steve Mason, Magic Numbers, The Balearic Folk Orchestra, Sean Rowley and Kevin Rowland (DJing)… alongside us putting on a little early afternoon Nature Disco with the mighty [...]
Some Very Kind Words…
29 July 2011 // Miscellany //Port Eliot festival
Just a few of the emails we’ve received about last weekend’s Port Eliot Festival.
The Falconer’s Tale by Dan Kieran
illustration by Jon McNaught An extract from the new Caught by the River book, On Nature. The first time a Harris Hawk landed on my fist I was standing in the rain in the middle of a pine forest surrounded by wooden lodges in the dystopian eco-habitat of Centreparcs in Somerset. As part of a [...]
Port by the River
27 July 2011 // Events //Music //On Nature //Port Eliot festival
Trevor Moss, Hannah-Lou & Jakub, Caught by the River Words: Robin Pictures: Neil Thomson. It’s becoming a familiar feeling. Back to normal life after four days of glorious Cornish weather (and one day when we were pretty glad we were doing everything in a tent) and you can’t help feel a little weepy. Looking back [...]
Allotment Watch: July
26 July 2011 // Allotment Watch
by Nina Walsh. July has most definitely been a month of fruit. With a constant supply of fresh raspberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants my freezer drawers are filled to the brim and the jam making and liqueur bottling frolics have commenced! The more exotic and heavenly scented lilies have now replaced the tulip seed pods as [...]
Decompression Time
25 July 2011 // Miscellany //Port Eliot festival
Dear Readers, Robin, Andrew and I have just got home from Port Eliot festival. It was a very long (and enjoyable) five days and we are knackered. We hate missing daily posts but man it was busy. I’m hoping that a long bath and a good nights sleep will help put my body and mind [...]
The Music Book Reader – Bulletin
22 July 2011 // Music Book Reader - Bulletin
Reviewed by Andy Childs. As far as I’m aware there hasn’t been, until now, an online site that concerns itself solely with books about music and music-related subjects. It seems to me that a lot of very good music books, deserving of wider praise and attention, are left to their own devices, floundering unappreciated in [...]
