Caught by the Reaper – Sylvia Robinson
30 September 2011 // Remembrance
Co-founder of All Platinum and Sugarhill Records and one half of Mickey & Sylvia. This portrait of Sylvia Robinson was written by Kevin Pearce in 2006 and originally published in the Fifty Thousand Reasons collection on the Tangents blog. ———————————————————————————————————————- Nik Cohn’s written the best pop books ever. I Am The Greatest, Says Johnny Angelo, [...]
Xerox – A Celebration Of Fanzine Culture From The 70s To Now
30 September 2011 // Miscellany
Xerox – A Celebration Of Fanzine Culture From The 70s To Now Rough Trade East Weds Oct 12th 2011 6.30 til 8pm Free Entry Robin writes: Time and again, we’ve found ourselves saying that Caught By The River is like a fanzine. As longtime fanzine readers, writers and buyers, it makes total sense that there [...]
Something for the Weekend
30 September 2011 // Miscellany
If you get a bit of time to yourselves over the weekend there are a couple of things currently on the iPlayer that might be of interest: Martin James visits Redmire Pool for this weeks BBC Radio Lancashire broadcast, At The Water’s Edge. You’ll find that HERE. Robert Macfarlane’s classic, The Wild Places, read by [...]
Walk! A Celebration Of Striding Out
by Colin Speakman Review by Jude Rogers Walk! A Celebration Of Striding Out is sitting on the table in front of me, looking stout, solid and reliable. It is not a whimsical book about the art of dreamy strolling; more a manual about what it really means, in all senses, to put one foot in [...]
Allotment Watch: September
28 September 2011 // Allotment Watch
by Nina Walsh I visited the plot today for the first time in two weeks. Oh dear. It’s incredible how two weeks of neglect can wreak such havoc. Without constant spraying of colloidal silver and pruning of the tomato plants to keep the air circulating, my tomatoes are well and truly blighted. The bean poles, [...]
Tide Lines
Ian Collins, James Dodds: Tide Lines Review by Ken Worpole James Dodds is a boat-builder and artist who has lived and worked on the Essex coast all his life, and paints exquisitely. For many years his lino-cuts and wood-cuts have been admired by poets whose work he has illustrated, including Seamus Heaney, Katrina Porteous, Kathleen [...]
I Lived in Trees
Mark Fry – I Lived in Trees (Second Language CD) by Nick Franglen I recently mixed I Lived In Trees, the new album by Mark Fry and The A. Lords. Jeff asked me how I came to work with this enigmatic psych folk musician, best known for a rare record released in the early 70s. [...]
Jeremy Wade at River Reads
25 September 2011 // Miscellany
Sandy Armishaw from River Reads bookshop in Torrington, Devon has written to tell us about a new book and event she has planned for later this year:
Getting to Kernow You
25 September 2011 // Miscellany
From Pete Fowler: Happy to announce my first solo exhibition for some time. I’ve recently rediscovered painting landscapes, not that they aren’t present in so many of my work but this time I’ve turned the spotlight directly on the landscape. In particular, the Cornish coastline. Silas UK were kind enough to offer me some space [...]
Rising Stars
This post was about to be titled ‘Record of the Week’ until I remembered that, for some reason, we have never been any good at keeping on top of a ‘record of the week’ column. Still, I’m not going to let that stop me from sharing this LP with you as I’ve been enjoying it [...]
