Mountain Man
8 July 2010 // Music
Mountain Man: Live in St Augustine’s Tower, July 10, 2010. by Kieran Evans. I think I witnessed one of the best gigs of my life last Thursday night. I say I think, not because I’m still in two minds or doubt what I saw or heard…but because I’m still thinking about what I felt just [...]
Caught by the Reaper – Larry Jon Wilson
4 July 2010 // Music //Remembrance
Larry Jon Wilson. songwriter, singer, guitar player. Born October 7, 1940, died June 21, 2010. Remembered by Ross Allen. I hate things like this. It seems that nearly every week of doing my radio show some legend has gone and died. You want to doff your cap and pay tribute, so you play a track [...]
I Am Kloot ‘Sky at Night’
2 July 2010 // Music
review by Frank Cottrell Boyce The best definition of real creativity I’ve ever heard was given to me by Guy Garvey. He was talking to me about Sky at Night – the sublime new album from I Am Kloot, which he’d just finished producing alongside Craig Potter, when he suddenly tripped into an anecdote about [...]
Van Morrison – The Common One
by Paolo Hewitt. “Won’t you meet me in the country, in the Summertime in England….” In 1980 Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners went searching for the young soul rebels. He went to bars and pubs and cafés, even libraries and old people’s homes, but he could not find them anywhere. He gave up his [...]
Treecreeper: Album news and competition
20 June 2010 // Music //competition
‘Juniper‘, the new album by Treecreeper, the band fronted by Caught by the River contributor Will Burns is released tomorrow by Trash Aesthetics. The press release says: “After the critical warmth with which their debut album “Grain” was received, brothers Greg and Will Burns have spent the last 3 years basking in rock n roll’s [...]
Birdsongs 6
14 June 2010 // Matt's Bird of the Week //Music
Number six in our series of Birdsongs downloads goes out to members this week. Make sure you are signed up to our mailing list (see the box above) and look out for the newsletter on Friday. Having launched this series back in January we are pleased to welcome back British Sea Power’s Martin Noble as [...]
The Waves of Brownsea Island & Other Stories
3 June 2010 // Miscellany //Music
NT Sounds Project from National Trust on Vimeo. by Nick Franglen. On the surface there might not be all that much to this record, nice as it sounds – Jarvis Cocker goes around National Trust properties recording sound effects. Certainly the National Trust don’t make out there’s much more to it that that – they [...]
Fender
2 June 2010 // Books //Music
Fender; the golden age 1946 – 1970, is dedicated to the art and design of Fender guitars and amplifiers and the revolutions they inspired. Two of the authors, Paul and Martin Kelly, are dear friends of ours, scrub that, Paul & Martin are family. I first met them both back in early 1987 (or was [...]
The Trout Album
23 May 2010 // Miscellany //Music
btw …. a woman on destert island discs played ‘a track’ from the trout album today. Tom.
Words & Music
10 May 2010 // Books //Music
from Andy Childs: Words and Music on Radio 3 yesterday evening was called Take Me To The River. Radio Times said : Juliet Stevenson and Jamie Glover read poetry and prose on the theme of rivers by Wordsworth, UA Fanthorpe, Ezra Pound, John Clare and Elizabeth Jennings, with music by Tippett, Delius, Duke Ellington, Henryk [...]
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