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Chasing The Bang
Roughly the following was published June 2019, in Blaze, the magazine of the Lighter Club of Great Britain: It’s about a year since I started trying to really understand and appreciate the magic of the lighting machine, starting with forking … Continue reading
JAMBOREE BAG 7
JEREMY CLARKSON AND ALL THAT Nodded my way through Marina Hyde’s comment on the latest “Clarkson affair” in Guardian of 3.4.14. Full piece, plus 1500-plus comments, at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/02/revulsion-jeremy-clarkson-progressives-bigots/ Extracts: “Maybe race rows are cheaper by the dozen, in which … Continue reading
MORE SOUNDS INTERESTING …
* Times has apparently been having a correspondence about good funeral songs. On 10.3.2014, a letter from Prof. John Murrell of Cambridge recommended Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’ve Gone, sung by George Melly. I’d want Miles Of … Continue reading
Quotable quotes on …
SAVILE & THE BEEB Anyone who knows anyone at the BBC will appreciate Jonathan Maitland’s quote from an insider there at the height of the Jimmy Savile revelations … “I don’t know how it will end but one thing is … Continue reading
ONLINE & OFF – HISTORY OF R’N’B
One of my favourite compilation records is Gaz’s Rockin Blues, put together by a DJ called Gaz Mayall, who turns out to be son of John Mayall, of the Bluesbreakers. In nov. 2005, he wrote a very quotable piece … Continue reading
WRONG-EYED MUSIC
Simone Felice: Call him Simon and file him under Wrong-Eyed Music. My Brennan MP3 deck is a beautiful thing when it is working as it should – it has had a couple of bugs, which Brennan were endlessly patient about … Continue reading
JAMBOREE BAG 5
Service has been interrupted by the business of moving house – on the subject of which, more later. Meanwhile, here goes with a somewhat ramshackle post, still to be sorted, in the interests of clearing the decks a bit. CASHOLOGY … Continue reading
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Tagged angel olsen, Chuka Umunna on capitalism, cooking cabbage, Future Islands, Jai on The Voice 2014, Jeremy O’Grady on capitalism, Johnny Cash record from the vaults and other Cashology, Melissa on The Voice 2014, memories of World War One, puns, Rachel Johnson on poverty, reading for kids, recommended podcasts, side-effects of statins and diabetes medication, Stephen Bayley on Charm, the perfect steak, Tony Benn and a lightning strike, we’re all capitalists now
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COMING ATTRACTION – DARLENE V. LALA
Even the Today programme (Radio 4, 25.2.14) has now trailed the launch of the much-praised new music documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, about backing singers, so I had better post my notes, although I haven’t actually seen it yet. … Continue reading
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