I’m off to the Lofotens in Norway for the next couple of weeks so things will be pretty quiet round here. Hopefully I will get to see the Mosktraumen, or the Maelström, as mentioned in Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “A Descent into the Maelström” and pictured here in this rather fine photograph by Nicolas [...]
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A Descent into the Maelström
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments
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Latitude 2008
July 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Just got back from Latitude 2008. Here are my festival highs:
Elbow and Sigur Rós on the Obelisk arena on Saturday night. Utterly amazing
Grinderman on Sunday. What can you say, just brilliant
Some other bands, notably Gravenhurst and Truckers of Husk
The Literature tent. What a great idea. Especially when it features Robin Ince and Ros Noble doing [...]
Gigs and misses
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
For a once keen gig goer, gigs have become more like buses for me of late; nothing for ages then an embarrassment of riches. Not like London buses ever approach anything like riches, although they are frequently quite an embarrassment.
Anyway, after the wonders of Gong at the Meltdown festival I went to see the astounding [...]
You never blow yr trip forever
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
This weekend I saw the wonderful Gong playing at Massive Attack’s Meltdown festival in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. What started as a nostalgic indulgence of my misspent teenage years listening to early 70s prog and psyc ended up with me totally transfixed by a band led by a 70 year old man in a red-sequined [...]
OU dos and don’ts
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m about halfway through my OU creative writing course (Start Writing Fiction) which I signed up for kind of by accident a few months back. So, here are some things that I’ve now learned you should do and what you should not do when doing this kind of distance learning thing.
Do:
Make sure you have some [...]
