Pleasures of……January
Andrew:
Four Tet ‘ There Is Love In You’ – A wonderful new album. I can’t stop listening to ‘Sing.’
‘Bad Science’ by Ben Goldacre – One of my best non-fiction reads in years. Goldacre calmly dissects the nonsense that is homeopathy and alike. He highlights the terrible coverage that science receives in the media and [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Marc Riley
14 December 2009 // Pleasures // Remembrance
In which, as the year comes to its end, our friends and collaborators look back and share their moments;
My 2009 galavanting stared in earnest (a small suburb of Manchester) in February. I undertook what was to be my most extreme wildlife venture yet. A two week boat (that’s BOAT – not SHIP) [...]
just one more….ok, two, but that is it.
10 October 2009 // Music // Pleasures
The listening pleasures of us and our mates seems to have taken over the site this week. Normal service will be resumed from Monday, I promise.
We’ll bring it to an end today with this list from Kieran Evans followed by the choice of Stephen Wilkinson, known to his record buying public as Bibio.
Kieran is a [...]
Listening Pleasures of……September
9 October 2009 // Music // Pleasures
Sean Rowley finds joy in Richard Hawley’s. ‘Trueloves Gutter’
Back in the early 80s, the NME gave away a booklet which was a guide to Torch songs. Contributors included in house journos Fred Deller,Neil Spencer & Tony Parsons. New wave acts such as Elvis Costello & Vic Godard started to get a look in [...]
Listening Pleasures of…….September
9 October 2009 // Music // Pleasures
Rough Trade shop’s Will Burns chooses, ‘Blood and Candle Smoke’ by Tom Russell;
I have been listening to Tom Russell for years (although my father’s gradual whittling away of any peripheral listening material other than every Tom Russell album and a couple of Steve Earle albums, and a daily shared car journey might have something to [...]
Listening Pleasures of…..September
8 October 2009 // Music // Pleasures
Steve Phillips, CBTR publicist and fishing buddy has been enjoying;
Leisure Society – ‘The Sleeper‘. If you feel like a good cry, buy this. A beautiful, beautiful record all about loss on every level evoking images of men with beards on moors carrying axes, or something. And ‘We Were Wasted’ is perhaps the most poignant ‘lost-it’ [...]
Listening Pleasures of…..September
7 October 2009 // Music // Pleasures
Jude Rogers on ‘East of Eden’ by Taken by Trees. Out now on Rough Trade.
I first heard Victoria Bergsman’s voice – Swedish, strange, sleepy and sweet – on a soft, summer evening in 2004. I was new to music writing, and working at the Word Magazine as a tea-making, phone-answering, odd-jobbing Girl Friday. I was [...]
Listening Pleasures of ….September
6 October 2009 // Music // Pleasures
Jeff was mostly listening to;
The Strange Boys – ‘And Girls Club’ album. Texan punk rock kids sounding Kinksy, swampy and shambolic. On ‘In The Red’. Folk raving about the live shows after recent UK visit.
The Unthanks – ‘Living by the Water’ (from the album, ‘Here’s the Tender Coming’)
Monsters of Folk – ‘Dear [...]
Listening Pleasures of… September
6 October 2009 // Music // Pleasures
A good month for records. Here are Robin’s favorites, mine will follow later and keep an eye on the site over the next few days as some of our contributors let us in on theirs.
Fuck Buttons “Tarot Sport”
This record is what I imagine it would be like taking pills to soundtrack the end of [...]
Pleasures Of… Port Eliot part 2
Seeing a lot of folk I’d not seen in many (25!) years. Among them Stephen Parker, Chris Warren and Ross Reid. Nice to see my old friend Val and back on home turf too. And Kathryn Williams, someone else I am very fond of who I had not seen in a long while. Kath [...]
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