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Now that I seem to be recovering from the bronchial infection that has plagued me since before Christmas, I am able to get stuck into a number of projects, including organising a “singing coach” to go to the anti-Trident demo in London on Feb 27, production of an anti-nuclear songsheet for the demo, and updating …
Happy birthday, Aquarians! Wasserman (Aquarius) From a sequence of Zodiac tunes composed for musical box by Karl-Heinz Stockhausen (given to me by the composer when I visited him in his home). Return to TOP A year hurries by No use to try To make it slow Time is the master He hurries faster He makes …
Now published: Rockopedia – 50 David Bowie Facts eBook on the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store http://bit.ly/50bowiefacts You can get it free if you can answer this question: Who invented the instrument Bowie played on Space Oddity?
I have just uploaded my David Bowie book to Amazon. It should be available online within a few hours, price $0.99 (or your currency equivalent). ♦ Oops! I’ve uploaded the wrong cover image to Amazon and I can’t change it until it’s been published. Above is the correct one! Answer this question and you could get …
Why this book? Some chapter headings from the book Most published guides to WordPress blogging are devoted to self-hosted sites created under WordPress.org. This is perhaps because WordPress.com sites are easier to set up, but also because it is widely (but not entirely accurately) believed that WordPress.org sites are more powerful. In fact, the CTRL-V …
A Hogmanay Medley We sing Auld Lang Syne at midnight Tune: The Week Before Easter (The False Bride) Hogmanay comes around and all things are made new And we make resolutions of what we should do It’s a time to be faithful, a time to be true As we sing Auld Lang Syne at midnight. …
Well . . . almost. You need to be an Amazon Prime subscriber – but you can get 30 days free HERE. The Beatles on Amazon: Help! [Blu-ray] [1965] Please Please Me Help! Let It Be The Beatles 50th Anniversary Box Set A Hard Day’s Night Beatles For Sale Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles Box …
Cross of Roses, Cross of Thorns We come to this place from near and far Cross of roses, cross of thorns Like ancient astrologers following a star. That ever blooms blossom since he was born. We gift him a gift more precious than gold: Cross of roses, cross of thorns The life of a prisoner, …
This is a reprise of my SwingEasy Christmas show, featuring seasonal music from Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Witherspoon, Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan, the Andrews Sisters, Django Reinhardt, Fats Waller, Tony Bennett with Lady Gaga, and Mahalia Jackson reminding us that Jesus is the reason for the …
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Sacred Harp singing in Haworth, Nov 14, 2015 It literally blew my mind, both musically and spiritually, as about a hundred people, young and old, children and adults, sang their heads off for six hours (with breaks for a shared lunch and coffee/tea). Though not all there were Christians, I don’t see how anyone could …
. . . a new song I’m recovered from my hunger strike and this morning woke with this new song in my head. The Ballad of Moby Dick Tune: The Spermwhale Fishery You may call me Ishmael I’m the hero of this song And if you’ll pay attention I’ll not detain you long, brave boys, …
Poetry is An incantation a magic spell an eruption of joy a cry for help a sermon in stone a memory of tomorrow a foretaste of yesterday a longing a promise broken a forgetting an erasure an undeleting a rewriting a finding a losing a discovery a revelation an unknowing a shout a whisper a …
These are first Pscopes, which I began to place on Twitter on Monday morning, Sept 7. Scopes are automatically deleted after 24 hours so I’m archiving them on Youtube and embedding them here. Hopefully, I’ve automated this process, and I’ll be showing you how to do it. I’ll also be evaluating a WordPress plugin called …
I’ve been experimenting with Periscope video streaming – go to periscope.tv for more info. What I’m calling peescopes (Periscope tweets) can be viewed live or any time in the next 24 hours, after which they are deleted. With any luck, the following should be viewable until 5pm-ish on September 8: ♦ A new Richard Hannay adventure.
Let’s face the music and dance! Featuring: Rita Hayworth Fred Astaire Gene Kelly Cyd Charisse Ava Gardner Sophia Loren Deborah Kerr Cary Grant Ginger Rogers Katharine Hepburn Jimmy Stewart And of course the singing of Nat King Cole! Here’s the Astaire/Rogers original (Follow the Fleet, 1936): (The actual song & dance doesn’t start until 3min51secs …
Following publication of the first in the series, Wonderful Women, telling the story of Marianne, the red drummer girl of 1789, a number of readers have objected that there should be a companion series devoted to outstanding men. Our first thought was that men tended to dominate the scene anyway, but it was pointed out …
I have translated the first two songs for the Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya project: Barbara Song ♥ From Die Dreigroschenoper Once I believed, an innocent girl, And I really was as innocent as you. I really believed when one day some man Came along then I’d know what to do. Though he’s got cash in the …
No, I haven’t taken up pipe-smoking. This page is just a test of embedding an animated GIF file. I’ve made the typist pic the featured image for this page, too.
And Artistry Jumps! (Not actually Stan Kenton, but a good rendition of Stan the Man’s chart.) Since Ofcom rules bar community radio broadcasters from being involved in political action (shame!) I had to come off the air during the General Election. Now, whatever you might think of the electoral result, I hope you’ll welcome me …
(Except in Brighton and Bradford West.)
I was surprised and not a little amused to receive publicity for George Galloway’s campaign to be re-elected for Bradford South on May 7 from his Labour opponent. Her election address indicates that she – or, more probably, her New Labour Blairite spin-doctors – doesn’t understand the first principle of political polemic. As my old …
♠ Padstow May Day, filmed by Pathe in 1932 On this day in 1983 I was baptised and confirmed into the Anglican Communion. My friend, Sydney Carter was there. I witnessed to the congregation how my life as a Communist had found its consummation in the comradeship of Jesus, that great revolutionary. That same evening, …
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√ Check out Floydiana on Amazon UK My Pink Floyd book, Bricks in the Wall, has long been out of print, and anyway the publisher made a real mess of it, misprints, uncorrected proofs etc, before they went (deservedly!) out of business. I’m now close to finishing the ebook successor, Pink Floyd – the final …
One down – another on Sunday. I’ll be writing a summation of both events on Monday. But here’s full video coverage of last week’s Bradford West event. Post your comments, and add details of other UK hustings below, please. Make your comments below and list any hustings (anywhere in UK, not just West Yorkshire).
Part the First of my sequel to Oliver Twist, “Of Vengeance and pork pies”, can now be downloaded for 0.99USD/0.99GBP from http://bit.ly/FaginReturns-1. A slightly different version will soon be available in Kindle format from Amazon. In these introductory chapters we meet the following characters from the tale: Abraham Fagin (AKA Cohen), who escaped execution after being sentenced … Continue reading
♥ This is a text of a leaflet I distributed in the streets in 1991. I believe it is still appropriate today, not just for Christians, but for people of all faiths, and none. ♥ It’s election time – and politicians are seeking your support. Before you vote, consider what Jesus taught us, and how the … Continue reading
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan) (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) Lady is the blues She kind of drags her words behind the beat in a way impossible to imitate (thank God) and she messes with the tune the way a horn-player will, but she never, never loses the meaning of what she’s singing. … Continue reading
Some other music for this great day! Jesus Christ A Blessing What Wondrous Love Lord of the Dance Hold It Fast, Hold On Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring This Little Light of Mine Amazing Grace (instrumental) – theme of the first Isle of Wight Rock Festival Continue reading
ROH and the Verfremdungseffekt “There’s something missing,” sang Kurt Streit as Jimmy McIntyre in the Royal Opera House presentation of Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the city of Mahagonny. He was right. What was missing was any acknowledgment of what differentiates this work from the run-of-the-mill productions we usually see on the … Continue reading
A partial eclipse of the sun takes place on Friday morning, March 20. Here are two poems about the previous solar event. Moonshadow 1999 They said it would get darker as the moon consumed the sun, but it didn’t. The light was pellucid, a sort of silvery-grey twilight, like the cusp between darkness and dawn. … Continue reading
Al Green – Everything's Gonna Be Alright from on Vimeo. Continue reading
Best-selling new jazz albums in Amazon’s Digital Music Store. Emily Saunders Outsiders Insiders | Format: MP3 Download Price: £6.99 Rhonda Thomas Vinyl Daze | Format: MP3 DownloadPrice: £6.49 Courtney Pine Song (The Ballad Book) | Format: MP3 DownloadPrice: £7.49 Video Games Live Level 4 | Format: MP3 Download Price: £7.49 Buddy Rich Birdland | Format: … Continue reading
My Youtube video for International Women’s Day yesterday opened with Teddy Munro singing my song, Get Outta My Head, back in 1971. No particular application to International Women’s Day, apart from the fact that most of the musicians backing Teddy were women – unusual in those days. Still is, as a matter of fact. In … Continue reading
For all my lovers, past, present, and future. I gave my love a Valentine. She sent it to another. But each one more to whom it’s sent enriches all the other. We draw love from a pitcher, ever full to overflowing. Receiving love or taking it, we don’t know where we’re going. If I gave … Continue reading
This latest edition of the 2s on 2sday HOA session covers the 2015 Oscars and the Ilkley Film Festival, celebrates the Royal Opera House presentation of Brecht/Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and reviews a new CD of Russian Sacred Music. ♦ Links to Weill/Brecht items on Amazon UK From the book, Trash … Continue reading
Come well Go well Stay well Pray well Cry well Smile well Try well Do well Hope well Think well Weep well Sleep well Dream well Know well See well Full well Be well Love well Trust well All’s well If you’re well Hamba khalie . . . Sala khalie Continue reading
As Time Goes By A one-act exercise in literary criticism (SCENE: A Los Angeles bar.) (The BAR TENDER is wiping down the counter. Seated on a stool is THE MAN, dressed in a trench coat, unbelted, the collar up as if against the wind, a fedora hat on the counter in front of him beside … Continue reading
This week’s show centres on the coming week’s weather plus a Movietime feature on The Theory of Everything. ♦ NEXT WEEK: The Ilkley Film Festival (Feb 18-22) and the Gala Show, A Little Chaos. Continue reading
I lifted my eyes to the altar and it seemed as if my life was now complete, that here was the reason for the denial of my prayers for death, that the long tick-tock years had led to this point, when a child’s blood would seal the promise that had made it possible for me to carry on, when faith stretched thin and almost to breaking.
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I looked in his eyes, so wise, serene as his mother’s, and it was like a reassurance, that this too would pass, and no cup was so deep it couldn’t be emptied, especially when these lips did the drinking, taking the poison from out of our world, returning us to that moment before the sin that drove us out of paradise.
I spoke it out, though words are inadequate for what I saw was about to happen in this child’s life, and how it would change us all. But weak as words are, they had to be said. Continue reading
I read my adaptation of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem in Leeds last night. I also read it in Bradford during a protest at the Israeli air attacks on Gaza.
The Churchill poem I wrote on the occasion of his funeral, fifty years ago. Continue reading
A birthday poem and a Beatles parody Happy birthday, Aquarians A year hurries by No use to try To make it slow Time is the master He hurries faster He makes it go But lovers can meet Where dreams are sweet And backwards flow Today and tomorrow May only bring sorrow We reap and sow … Continue reading
Artemios Ventouris “Demis” Roussos (Greek: Αρτέμιος “Ντέμης” Βεντούρης Ρούσσος) June 15, 1946 – January 25, 2015 ♦ Pictures by Karl Dallas It was a strange gig for me, since I’d never been what you could call a big fan of Aphrodite’s Child – though I quite liked Vangelis, especially his music for Bladerunner. When my friend Denis, … Continue reading
It was announced as an inter-faith gathering. And while the majority of the several hundred who gathered in Bradford’s Centenary Square as the thermometer plunged to below zero were undoubtedly Muslim, there were at least two Christians and even one atheist of my acquaintance who had responded to the call to honour the Prophet. While … Continue reading
Bluetooth Smartwatch for £14.19 Product Details Key Features Connectivity:Bluetooth3.0 Supported Operation System:Android, iOS Smartphone Assistant:Message Control, Media Control, Hands-Free Calls Fitness & Wellness:Alarm Clock, Find My Device, Stopwatch, Timer, Activity Tracker Entertainment:Audio Specifications General Brand Rwatch Operating System Other Languages Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Turkish, Swedish, Italian,German, French, Korean, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, English, Thai Services … Continue reading
Facebook is rolling out a new feature to users that allow you to create live video feeds to put on your timeline. At the moment it only works on the iPad and iPhone, and not for all users. Here’s a look at using it on iOS devices. Some people are complaining that this is going … Continue reading
Hi Karl, The Academy Awards are just a couple of weekends away now. As that final countdown begins, we wanted to give a congratulatory shout-out to all those Slated members who have worked on this year’s nominated films. By our reckoning, at least 92 executives and artists will be eagerly awaiting the names out of … Continue reading
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At 9am on Tuesday, October 13, I shall begin a hunger strike against the kafkaesque machinations of the Department of Work and Pensions and will be picketing the DWP offices at Westfield House, 85 Manningham Lane, BD1 3BE, Bradford, West Yorkshire until I obtain satisfaction from them. A week ago I was advised that a DWP representative … Continue reading
As part of his triumphant campaign for the Labour leadership, Jeremy Corbyn, MP, came to Bradford, where the Independent Labour Party was formed in 1893. He addressed an crowd of nearly a thousand for just over half an hour. His speech was filmed using EE’s new ActionCam. This is the first of two 15-minute extracts … Continue reading
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