Roof of the Tate St Ives (pic by Jan Jefferies) Return from St Ives. And this time it’s personal. Arrived tired, weary and achy from a seven-hour drive this evening, and missing the town and friends already. Two weeks is never enough. But it was an eventful couple of weeks. Apart from regular festival activities […]
Top o’ the world, Ma: return from St Ives Read More »
So this is how I amuse myself while I’m in St Ives for the festival. I sang for the first time, not including the occasion two years back when I provided backing vocals for Buffalo Bill Smith and Charles Shaar Murray at the Kettle and Wink and forgot the lyrics to Who Do You Love?,
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Still in St Ives for the festival. Here’s the first of my videos of the talent. Superbia play their great anti-war song, “The Afghanistan Song” during the lunchtime sessions in Norway Square for the St Ives Arts Festival, September 2010. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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The Guardian plugs their “Morrissey sparks racism row calling Chinese ‘subspecies’” Weekend magazine article on their front page. The old miserabilist has used the excuse of an animal cruelty scandal in China to brand the entire Chinese race as a “sub-species”. What, even Buddhists who don’t eat meat? Even the Chinese environmentalists and animal rights
For the Crosstown Lightnin’ detractor who wrote to me saying Jeff Beck is a “pub band”, here is a musical interlude of a classical persuasion to help you focus your thoughts while you bone up on your genres. The sublime double-monikered One plays Chopin Etude No. 3, Op. 10 in E major as an encore
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I enjoyed immensely last night’s Crosstown Lightnin’ gig, the first with new drummer Pete Myles who joined Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bill Smith and Marc “The Exorcist” Jefferies for the Abbey festival weekend. Pete brought a sensitive interplay to the performance and a strong sense of dynamics making Canned Heat’s On The Road Again a
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