Pleasures of… July
As told by Ian Vince. June lingers as long as May while April is broken into chunks of fair weather and foul, but a sunny July sweeps along, a temporal anomaly in a year of long months. The pleasures of July are all part and parcel of the business of July, namely touring with a [...]
Pleasures of……June
Things heard or seen in June. By Laura Beatty. Cuckoos calling in the wood. M1 very loud at night. This year the fields inside the forest are given over to hay. It is eight since they stopped being farmed and were put back to grass. Now they breathe like a sea and every year there [...]
The Pleasures of…… May
Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky shares his joys of May. May is the finest month. On Mayday morning everything is still to come, by June the best of the year is over. Spring opens fully to green life through May’s weeks. Sunlight stretches days earlier and later. The season thickens with birdsong and [...]
Pleasures of… April
Robin Steve Mason “Boys Outside” (Double Six) The debut ‘solo’ record from a man who spent the last decade and a bit hiding behind a series of ever more oblique guises. First as the driving force behind The Beta Band then alone as King Biscuit Time and latterly Black Affair, Mason always seemed like an [...]
Pleasures of……April
Fionn Regan, Heavenly recording artist and big fan of Dylan Thomas, played a dream gig at the Laugharne festival last month: The Laugharne weekend was an absolute pleasure. The festival itself is wonderful, Bill Drummond was a highlight. I can strongly recommend a restaurant called The Green Room and a B&B called The Boathouse… and [...]
Pleasures of…..March
what we’ve been liking round these parts: Robin I’m loving Compliments, the first track off the new Band Of Horses record. Their last album, Cease To Begin, came recommended by my friend Andy Kelly and rapidly took up position like those stealth rock’n’roll records that you find yourself endlessly playing after approaching with zero knowledge [...]
Pleasures of……March
Luke Jennings, author of the soon to be published, ‘Blood Knots’, tells us about the good stuff… Almost everything promises a dud final day of the season at Walthamstow Reservoirs – a nagging wind, flat sunshine, greasy-feathered cormorants on patrol – but my 14 year-old son and I go anyway. We are, as usual, the [...]
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 [...]
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) trip from [...]
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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 [...]
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