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    Are you voting where you are?

    Have twice voted LibDem here in this Tory stronghold (Essex), and felt terrible both times. This time went Green, and although equally pointless, don't feel too bad about it.
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    Van Halen RIP

    I regret I am unfamiliar with their oeuvres.
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    sky sports presenters row - n/g

    There’s a lot to be said for girls who scream over little things.
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    What Have you been Reading this Lockdown?

    I had to photograph the remains of Marshalsea Prison for a project I was involved in, and came across a stained-glass window featuring Little Dorrit in the church next door. The book is set there. I started to read it, but sad to say it’s far from Dickens’ best - or maybe it’s me. I don’t like...
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    Congratulations AFC Barrow

    Just for the avoidance of doubt, I was nowhere near these events. I was using the Royal “we”.
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    Congratulations AFC Barrow

    As I recall, our bus broke down in Strood, we eventually got there hours late, the match had to be abandoned in fading light with us seven down, we asked for the result to be cancelled in favour of a replay, with the inevitable response. Happy days.
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    It was sixty years ago today

    Indeed, you’ve reminded me of the time (in 1991) when we went to Snape Maltings to see a performance of Sumidagawa, the Japanese Nō play that had inspired Benjamin Britten to write Curlew River, which was performed in the second half. The Nō company entered chanting from the rear of the...
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    It was sixty years ago today

    Had a long chat with Joe Harriott after a gig in the GI Club back in the sixties (is that still going?). Nice guy, rather shy, maybe not used to being approached by white fanboys. Monster alto player, way ahead of his time, up with Ornette and Dolphy for me. Legend.
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    It was sixty years ago today

    If you want to hear a classical-inclined version of DID, try Private Passions on R3 at noon on Sundays. Also on Sounds. We never miss it.
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    It was sixty years ago today

    We like Petroc Trelawney’s programme on R3 weekday mornings from 6:30-9:00. He plays a mixed bag (although not much ska) and you’ll probably find something to appeal from time to time. Don‘t expect to like everything though. Just let it run for a couple of weeks would be my advice. For jazz...
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    It was sixty years ago today

    I must have been born without the pop music gene, because it's never had much appeal for me. More relevantly, my sister is six years older than me, so most of what I was exposed to at the impressionable age was the jazz and folk that her art school chums would bring round. Pretty soon I...
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    Little Richard RIP

    Given his stroke, heart attack, bone cancer, might have been happier if he had.
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    Avoid Dockside!

    I suspect certain substances might have been involved. Plus lockdown.
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    Ten favourite movies (n/g)

    I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Dr Strangelove.
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