Apple Day
21 October 2009 // Country Bizarre
It’s Apple Day today and as you would expect – what with them being the ones that started it – details of nationwide events can be found at the website of Common Ground . Regular readers will have seen the posts concerning our quest for information about Country Bizarre magazine, a fascinating slice of underground [...]
Embryonic
Well, someone was bound to end up taking the brown acid eventually. “Embryonic” by The Flaming Lips emerges dazed and confused into the Christmas market like an Apocalypse Now-era Dennis Hopper stumbling out of Oxford Circus tube on December 24th. Truly, this record takes the term ‘fried’ to giddy new levels.
First Cast at the Loch of the Green Corrie
21 October 2009 // Arcadia //Books
by Andrew Greig. (continued from yesterday..) We were so eager, fresh to the place, wondering who was going to be first to catch that fish for Norman. A single fish, caught by any one of us, would fulfil the mission, but it would be good to be the one who caught it. The first ten, [...]
Dexter Petley
20 October 2009 // Arcadia //Books
Dexter Petley has been a part of Caught by the River from day one. As dp, in Arcadia, the correspondence between him and John Andrews (ja) has intrigued, baffled and entertained us and our readers on a weekly basis, earning Dexter (and the ‘Letters From Arcadia’ series) a true cult following. It has also played [...]
Life on Earth
The music to the 1979 BBC TV series, by Edward Williams, is released today on Trunk Records. Here, Nick Franglen tells of how these seemingly lost recordings were unearthed and what a pleasure they are to listen to: We used to love Life On Earth in our house, so much so that for years afterwards [...]
The Bird Effect Diaries
18 October 2009 // The Bird Effect
The diary of the making of a film. and an on going fascination with birds and their accompanying cast of human characters. By Ceri Levy. Previous entries can be read by clicking here. Sunday August 23rd I remember Deb’s advice from last night that one should always enter raffles and prize draws on the different [...]
Letter From Arcadia
Last of the Few ja has a pike got your tongue? the geese came by the other night, high as the stars, bringing news of the first frosts, and maybe the first cast of arcadia’s pike bung. just a whisper from the trebles in a north east blaster. nothing with your name on. the season’s [...]
I Might Have Known The Rain Would Come
I Might Have Known The Rain Would Come. By Will Burns. She sleeps all the next day. And the rain and the drive, and the broken down van are just shreds of a bad dream for a while, at least. I would be walking the dogs on Gréve de Lecq. On my own. He would [...]
message from Frank
16 October 2009 // Books //Miscellany
Hi Jeff I’ve got a short story on The Verb (R3) tonight (9.15). I wouldn’t normally mention this except that it’s about someone listening out for a corncrake. And I’m on with John Irving whose new book is Twisted River. So birds and rivers. Two CBTR boxes ticked. It feels like it would be rude [...]
Fishing in Utopia
Nick Small’s thoughts on Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown. Jeff, Thank you for sending me “Fishing in Utopia”. Sorry it has taken so long to read and digest. When it arrived, I started it at bedtime, and the next morning woke to find that it had been snaffled by my wife. It was a [...]
