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[…] including James Bell and Ditte Elly. James has a wild English traddy/folky/thingness about him (he explains it better in his video), which is almost a polar opposite to the smooth and gentle approach of Ditte. Both sets of […]
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[…] are well-researched arguments against continuing the use of black face paint here and here and currently, as was probably bound to happen, a lot of people on either side of the debate are […]
[…] to explain, the reason why I write these long ranty blog things (such as this and this) is because I assume that at some point someone is going to ask me my opinion on them. […]
[…] to explain, the reason why I write these long ranty blog things (such as this and this) is because I assume that at some point someone is going to ask me my opinion on them. And I have […]
Oh, and this is much better researched than my ramblings! http://www.academia.edu/5468139/To_Black_up_Or_Not_to_Black_Up_A_Personal_Journey (by Chloe Metcalfe – starts page 6).
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[…] interesting ideas, and practices. Ideas which don't just relate to the last blog, but also the one before that, because she has spoken at length on the importance of busking and how her years making money […]
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[…] James and I first got together, I knew he had an unruly folk band. I’m still not totally sure how many people are in it – twelve? thirteen? – […]
[…] Remember how I said about painting the Severn Bridge? […]
[…] quick post, today, before I cycle back to the boat to get ready for the Bastard English Session. It’s a folk music session in our local pub, which also happens to be where we’re […]
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[…] about their lives as scientists, with live musical accompaniment from Oxford-based folk band “James Bell and the Half Moon All Stars”. Irina Polyakhina, from the Julian Knight group, took part as one of the […]
[…] started life in the very early days of the Bastard English session, in the Half Moon in Oxford. In those days there was a List™ of tunes that would definitely be […]
[…] popular tune from the Bastard English session – so I thought we might enjoy it […]
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[…] might recognise the fresh face on the video snapshot above as Laura Theis, whose album I produced. Well, one of her many other bands, Robot Swans, is releasing a new album this month (for […]
[…] or relevant enough to share with the wider public. That said, I have done so on this website from time to time, when a topical issue relates to the history of English culture, and particularly English […]
[…] it happened! Didn’t really have time to write about it last month. We managed to get thirteen acts in […]
[…] enough to share with the wider public. That said, I have done so on this website from time to time, when a topical issue relates to the history of English culture, and particularly English music. […]
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[…] you might well know that I am a bit of a fan of Elliott Smith. Just over 2 years ago I wrote a long and winding blog about… maybe more the enigma than the man. This documentary goes some way, I reckon, to […]
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[…] something coming from me, because I was ambivalent at best about the streaming revolution. In a blog post a few years ago I wrote about how I couldn’t see how a business model that gave music consumers whatever […]
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[…] Great songwriting. Great singing. And sort of developing a theme of recommending mandolin virtuosi… […]
[…] even though I was deeply sceptical of the new music landscape to begin with — all I saw was the seemingly insurmountable problems —now, I too am very fucking […]
[…] you may know, I am something of a Suzanne Vega fan. So, if anyone should be calling the emergency services out to have a song pulled from a brutal car […]
[…] so often that it’s become a running joke between me and my wife) is the joint BBC / PBS series The Brain, presented by neuroscientist Dr David Eagleman. This 6-part series is a beautifully told walking […]
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[…] a lot on technique, construction, kind of ‘hard theory’. But no one has really done an Every Frame A Painting take on […]
[…] haven’t been feeling well recently. An ongoing fatigue illness. Which, as I mentioned last month, has meant I have had to temporarily stop putting new music on this site (because all my […]
[…] is food. In many ways his most recent series, Parts Unknown, did with global cuisine what Jonathan Gold did with LA cuisine: showed how it can give you a different appreciation of cultures other than your own. He goes […]
[…] where the band is on stage and the audience is… in the audience, and it is still amazing. Bellowhead’s final gig is one such […]
[…] is just one of those really high quality podcasts like You Must Remember This or Revisionist History that you can just chew right through before you even know it. It’s not […]
[…] serious when YouTube searching for a trad English tune — The Parson’s Farewell — and I wrote an article a while back about the version I found that was recorded especially for this TV series. That track was so good […]