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A post for International Women’s Day – Patti Smith
So it’s always kind of tricky knowing how to address International Women’s Day as a man. Thankfully, the Guardian partly solved it for me, highlighting Patti Smith as one of their Top 100 Women. If you...
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Stuff I’m listening to – Bon Iver, Boris, other stuff
Music getting heavy rotation on my iPhone at the moment: Bon Iver – Bon Iver This, like the last one, is going to be mercilessly, relentlessly hyped to the Himalayas and back again. Over the next few...
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Monday two minute podcast – Julie Bertagna’s Exodus, Forest Fire
Tonight’s two minute improvised podcast is going to be even more untogether than last week’s, given that it’s coming from the bathroom of a guest house room full of bouncy children on a windy night in...
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Monday Podcast – The Golem’s Eye/Feist and the ‘breakout’ indie album
Well, here we are again. I really need to talk more slowly. There’s an entire official site about Jonathan’s Stroud’s Bartimaeus. He makes it all sound very easy. Bastard. If they weren’t such great...
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Five or six musical things I loved in 2011
It was a year of live music – Josh T Pearson holding a revival tent meeting for the Church of the Sacred and the Profane in the Barbican, Wolvserpent and Wolves In The Throne Room generating a...
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I am listening to Year of the Tiger by Fucked Up
It’s a 15 minute ‘single’ by the Canadian post-hardcore band, Fucked Up. I’m listening through headphones for the first time. I wish I had the lyric sheet handy. Two minutes in and several layers of...
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Reading: Ranger Apprentice, The City & The City; Hideous Gnosis
Ranger Apprentice: 1 – The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan is the first in a middle grade series that seems to be coming out at the rate of three a year and accelerating. Dudelet (who’s on Michelle...
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Vinyl, sacred spaces and the placebo effect
I’ve been reading Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science and I’m especially intrigued by the the chapter on placebos. The effect is probably well known. Crudely, it’s the idea that the belief that one is being...
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The Return of Listen With Dudelet
It’s felt like it’s been ages since dudelet listened, really listened, to a record with me. At some point, the toddler who’d boogie in his seat to Aphex Twin or the five year old whose favourite record...
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Ofra Haza, Yemenite Songs and Little Elf
Little Elf has a thing for an Ofra Haza album I found in a British Heart Foundation shop. Partly it’s the music, which she loves to dance to (I say ‘dance’ but I seem to do most of the work), and...
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