Just a note to say, what a show stopping performance on Friday night by Arcade Fire at Glastonbury. A brilliant set, combined with outlandish costumes and papier mâché heads of their own persona was a very clever and fitting finale.
From the archive – February 2014…
A Quixotic Masterpiece
Arcade Fire – Reflektor.
Released late last year …More»
I guess it wasn’t meant to happen.
Let’s drown our national sorrow in Brazils finest export… the unbridled psychedelic cut and paste avant art protest music car crash of Tropicália.
This mind altering mix started life some time ago as a playlist for an old Art School co-pilot in response to a Tjuana Brass laced …More»
The British Larder just outside Woodbridge has been shortlisted for best bar snack in Britain for its salt beef Scotch egg which is cooked to order.
The brisket is cured on site, flaked down and mixed with sausage meat and served with horseradish. Sounds very yummy – will have to check it out ! …More»
It is amazing that the Cutty Sark has survived at all. Many clipper ships were wrecked or lost at sea and the vast majority had a career that lasted no more than 20 years. And of course the Cutty Sark suffered a calamitous fire in 2007 while in dry dock that was very nearly …More»
