Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Anyone Who Had a Heart

♪♫ Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town


I recently finished reading Rob Young's Electric Eden (an excellent history of folk music in the UK), and came across MacColl and Charles Parker's Radio Ballads for the first time. You can watch Philip Donnellan's interpretation of three of them HERE

Cry From The Cut (BBC Radio 1962)


The Birmingham Ballads

Goth chooks?

Black bones?

Oops CNN!

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Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre: The Ruins of Detroit

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John Cooper Clarke honoured by University of Salford

Ian Dury Retrospective Opens At Royal College of Art

Monday, 22 July 2013

A welcoming song for when the little fucker pops out...

Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison arrested for barking at police dog

Where there's a will(y) there's a way

Why David Cameron's war on internet porn doesn't make sense

A protester holds a placard in the rain during a protest against the Australian Government asylum seeker policy in Melbourne on July 20, 2013.Australia's deal with Papua New Guinea is vulture capitalism at its worst

MP: How do we benefit?

Priest: New asylum seeker agreement ridiculous

Breaking Good

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