‘Kurt Jackson: River’
23 March 2010 // Miscellany //On Water
An exhibition featuring the work of one Britain’s leading painters goes on display at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 27 March 2010. Kurt painting on the river Liffey Press Release ‘Kurt Jackson: River’ is a chance for people to see a diverse selection of work created over the course of the last [...]
Pint by the River – Tactical Nuclear Penguin 32%
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Lines Made By Walking
22 March 2010 // Lines Made by Walking
by Jude Rogers. 1. Simple Lines Left, right, left, right. This is my favourite rhythm. Heel to toe, heel to toe, tarmac and kerbstone meet leather and rubber. Before the first of my walks I offer you a warning: I’m far your conventional, fancy flaneur. Baudelaire probably waved his hair beautifully into the wind while [...]
Caught By The Reaper – John Sicolo
21 March 2010 // Music //Remembrance
One of the most loved characters in Welsh rock’n’roll history died last weekend. Two locals pay tribute to the man behind the legendary gig venue TJ’s. Richard King A few doors down from the Victorian redbrick Art School and a few steps back from the riverfront sounds like a suitably romantic and bohemian location for [...]
Promised Land
21 March 2010 // Music //Remembrance
Jeff writes; A song that always makes me think of Charlie Gillett (and thank him for, come to that) is Promised Land by Johnnie Allen. I think it may have been the first single release on Oval. one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll 45s of all time. then there was the Another Saturday Night [...]
Frank Cottrell Boyce on Desert Island Discs
Screenwriter, novelist and Caught by the River contributor Frank Cottrell Boyce is the guest on Desert Island Discs today at 11.15 on BBC Radio 4. Listen now on the iplayer. I agreed to do Desert Island Discs, thinking it would be one of the most enjoyable and truly cool things I’d ever done. The invitation [...]
Caught By The Reaper – John Sicolo
One of the most loved characters in Welsh rock’n’roll history died at the weekend. Two locals pay tribute to the man behind the legendary gig venue TJ’s. Robin Turner You become prone to exaggeration when writing eulogies, gushing raw emotion that smacks of nothing so much as raised glasses and teary, beery eyes. In the [...]
Caught by the Reaper – Alex Chilton
20 March 2010 // Music //Remembrance
by Bobby Gillespie Alex sang on, made, wrote and produced some of my favourite records ever. Records like The Letter by the Box Tops, which he sang. Then the Big Star stuff. Sister Lovers, the third Big Star album, is one of my favourites. September Gurls is an incredible single. It’s as good as The [...]
Caught by the Reaper – Charlie Gillett 1942-2010
(photo by Roger George Clarke) words by Andy Childs. There surely can’t be anyone who is remotely interested in contemporary music who hasn’t been touched by the ears of Charlie Gillett. Apart from his achievements as a writer, music publisher, compiler par excellence, and record label boss, he managed, via his various radio shows, to [...]
And so the season ends…
from Nick Moore; Like you Jeff, we had the most wonderful end to the season on the Stour. Myself and very best pal/drummer/fisherman Buj (who was taught to fish by one Dexter Petley in the village of Hawkhurst, Kent in the early 1970s and they have since been reunited courtesy of CBTR) chose to use [...]
