Faces: Flying
Featuring an extremely shaggy Rodular barnet, a live version from French TV.
Author: Alan Ashworth
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School meals, yum!
FROM the day I started infants’ school at the age of five, my mother insisted that I come home every day for lunch. Perhaps influenced by her own experience as … Continue readingSchool meals, yum!
Gillian Welch: Paper Wings
Commencing a short season on the theme of flight, a live version of the Gillster’s wistful tune from her classic 1995 debut album Revival.
Pavement: Shady Lane
A debut appearance on A & M for Stephen Malkmus and Co. Great video.
Hiroshi Yoshimura: Clouds
Lovely ambient stuff from 1982.
Brian Eno: Like I Was A Spectator
With brilliant footage supplied by Nasa. Majestic.
Pablo Casals: The Song of the Birds
Nothing wrong with a bit of culture now and then . . .
Innocence Mission: Wonder of Birds
A lovely 2010 version of the song from their eponymous 1989 debut album.
The wrestling vicar
IT was in early January 48 years ago that I arrived in Newcastle upon Tyne to begin a school-leavers’ course at the Thomson Regional Newspapers training centre. The office was … Continue readingThe wrestling vicar
Loudon Wainwright III: Perfect Day
Thankfully not the Lou Reed song that was murdered for cheridee but a cover of an ancient Carrie Jacobs-Bond song by Loud, still singing beautifully in his mid-70s.