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A Veritable Bewilderment of Delights

I’ve always quite liked the style of old handbills: the erratic punctuation, jumbled type sizes and overuse of exclamation marks especially. If I produced a handbill for this blog, it would look something like this…

June 29, 2017 in Art, Books, Bookshops, Landscape, Music, Uncategorized.

Here’s Where The Story Begins: The Sundays’ Reading, Writing and Arithmetic at 25.

In my teens being there mattered. Having, or at least knowing about, the latest album RIGHT NOW was crucial. To my shame I was late to the Cure and late to the Smiths and countless others. But with the Sundays I got there bang on time. As soon as their first album was released in early 1990 I went out and bought it. That made them mine.

January 21, 2015 in Music, Records.

Behind Bristol’s Closed Doors

A new way to go behind the scenes of some of Bristol’s most historic buildings.

April 3, 2013 in Bookshops, Bristol, City, Music, Records.

Coping with the ‘to read’ pile: confessions of an English book-eater

All book lovers and avid readers, whatever type of book or subject matter they’re into, are faced with one great big non-negotiable truth – YOU’LL NEVER READ THEM ALL.

January 23, 2013 in Books, Music.

Here’s How Records Give You More Of What You Want

This sleeve is a genuine piece of history, and in it’s own stiff way everything it says about the value of LPs still holds true…

October 20, 2012 in Music, Records.

Down winding roads & through tree tunnels into the land of Wow

I’ve just returned from a three-day visit to the Port Eliot Festival, in St Germans, Cornwall. It’s hard to put into words just how good and right the place and atmosphere felt. On the last stage of the drive you wind through a series of roads that alternately give views across small fields that are…

July 24, 2012 in Books, Country, Landscape, Music.

John Peel’s record collection online

You can now you can explore John Peel’s personal record collection online at this charming site.

May 1, 2012 in Music, Records.

More – The Shivers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-0s4l4Ydjo

What a song. Used up my Spotify quota and have now ordered the LP/CD from here http://www.fencerecords.com/shop/

It’s great.

April 20, 2012 in Music, Records.

Record Store Day – Here’s to Revolver Records, Bristol.

As a teenager in the eighties my hometown seemed blessed with a surprising variety of record shops, but I always saw Revolver as the one true emporium of cool.

April 15, 2011 in Books, Bristol, Music, Records.

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