Last night Peg and I headed off in the direction of MassMoCA to catch Robyn Hitchcock and Joe Boyd perform their show Chinese White Bicycles, which links together readings from Boyd’s memoir in the music business in the 60s and Hitchcock’s performance of the songs from the artists including Dylan, the Incredible String Band, the…
Category: musicians
Falling for The Fall
Over at The Spectator Medium, I get my geek on about The Fall: With the release of Your Future, Our Clutter, The Fall marks 33 years of recording with another stellar disc. The music has evolved over that time, from proto-punk to a more poppy tunefulness to electronica and new noise – and the line up…
Reviews: Harry Nilsson/King’s Speech/True Grit
I have no doubt about the finest film I saw last year this past year: hands down, it was Winter’s Bone. I’ve heard people carp about how “accurate” it was, especially people who felt it portrayed their part of the world unflatteringly. I don’t know — there’s plenty of areas like that, even here in…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Renegade
“I don’t really write from a solid idea. It’s never that certain at the start. You get to what you’re saying through the writing, the process; and then you move on.” ~ Mark E. Smith http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=magicwombat-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=0141028661 My entry may not really be ‘forgotten’ so much as completely unfamiliar to many. I bought a copy in…
Laurie Anderson’s ‘Delusion’ & Nowhere Boy
Friday I had the chance to catch a couple of fun things: Laurie Anderson‘s Delusion at EMPAC (my favourite local venue) and Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy at the Spectrum 8 (as usual). Of course there were several other things possible that night — among them, Nick Lowe sob! — but one can’t do everything (but…
Reminder: WLoAD needs women!
Call for Submissions “Passion. Vision. Daring. Humour. Any alone will be intriguing–but to have them all is to be sublime.” That is the mandate of the new journal for the Women’s League of Ale Drinkers, for which I am editor. We seek only work that meets these criteria, the output of creative women who may…