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Friday, August 12, 2022

STRANGE ATTRACTOR PRESS: OBSOLETE SPELLS and CITY OF THE BEAST/ THE LIVES OF VICTOR NEUBURG AND ALEISTER CROWLEY

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  The Strange Attractor Press is an independent publishing house founded in 2003, based in London and run by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcl...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Thích Nhất Hạnh: THE FATHER OF MINDFULNESS

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Rather late in the day, The Generalist has become aware of  Thích Nhất Hạnh, considered the Father of Mindfulness who died on January 22nd t...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

ART MAGAZINES: STATE/f22 and ROSA

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To come across two new art magazines in the same week is a rare and delightful event. To complicate matters somewhat STATE and f22 are two d...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

THE EALING CLUB: BIRTHPLACE OF BLUES IN BRITAIN

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You can buy all these items from the Ealing Club Community Interest Company The DVD paints a good picture of why this venue is considered to...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

RICKY-TICK CLUB AND THE BRITISH R&B 60s SCENE

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Saturday, May 07, 2022

RAVING UPON THAMES: AN UNTOLD MUSICAL HISTORY

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The Generalist has a great interest in the history of British music and a belief that the true story has not been told or not told properly....
Thursday, May 05, 2022

FLAMIN' GROOVIES by NICK KENT

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This is the Flamin' Groovies playing their first gig in Britain for many years at the Pattern Club in Brighton on May 1st. They played...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

The Return of An African in Greenland

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Back in April1983, I travelled to Paris to spend three days with Tété-Michel Kpomassie and his family who made me most welcome. The Sunday T...
Monday, April 18, 2022

MIDLIFE: HUMANITY'S SECRET WEAPON

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This intense book by psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson arrived in the post unexpectedly, which was handy as I was speaking to several friends ...
Friday, April 08, 2022

ENDEAVOUR TO RISE

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  My dear friend Lindsay Rudland has written a wonderful book on her life with another volume to come. She was a nurse for 46 years mainly ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

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  Just heard that Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. One of the greatest of the Beat poets, creator  and custodian of the Cit...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

THE HARRY SMITH B SIDES / DUST TO DIGITAL

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                                                                                                Harry Smith is haunting me. A figure of huge...