Several posts ago I wrote about Julien Temple’s “Requiem For Detroit?” I watched another cracker from him yesterday – his biopic of the greatest rock’n’roll band the UK ever produced – Dr Feelgood.
The film, Oil City Confidential, is available to UK viewers on BBC iPlayer for another week or so but will be out on [...]
Election fever strikes and Cosmic Mansions is plunged into a maelstrom of apathy. I’m not going to write anything obviously political about it here or elsewhere – even were I not a public servant and therefore bound to draw a discrete veil over my thoughts, I should not think that you would be particularly interested. [...]
I have been reading Honeyboy Edwards’ excellent autobiography “The World Don’t Own Me Nothing” of late. It is an excellent read and captures well his early days based in the Delta, hoboing around the US, playing guitar and harmonica, drinking white whiskey, stealing other people’s wives and generally having a wild time. While doing so [...]
I finally managed to get to see The Imagined Village last night, in Glasgow, as they kicked off their tour in support of their new cd Empire and Love. They were on great form and I enjoyed it, although there was an element of the “first night” about it and some aspects of the pacing [...]
The chill continues although there is something of a thaw in progress at present. Aside from my return to work this week, I have taken advantage of the time to do a lot of reading after a lengthy period during which I seemed to read very little. For the most part it has been science [...]
Happy New Year!
And so to my top ten CDs of the decade which has just ended. The ranking of these is more or less random in the sense that if I drew the list up tomorrow the order could change depending upon mood. The exception is the number 1 of which I have [...]
And so the Christmas holidays are upon me with all thoughts of work banished from my mind until 6th January 2010. We woke up this morning to what passes for a decent snowfall in Edinburgh – we don’t usually get too much here although the temperature can plummet impressively from time to time. The city [...]
It’s that time of year again.
I have an ambivalent relationship with Christmas. I dislike the intense pressure to buy and the fact that it begins earlier every year. I dislike the way that every year the shop keepers are moaning about lack of business but then come January the reveal to their surprise that actually [...]
At work I am currently trying to structure some data and write a report around the evidence that the data provides. I have been trying to do this for a while and it has proven to be time consuming although I’m pretty sure I have cracked it structurally, which has been my biggest problem. Doing [...]
(Written Friday 20 November)
I haven’t written a train blog for quite some time, but I find myself once more zipping down the East Coast mainline en route to a Jake Thackray/Georges Brassens gig in Kent.
Despite yesterday being – it is said – the wettest day in the UK this century with Cumbria and parts of [...]
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