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Sunday, March 24, 2024

THE BLUES: ROBERT JOHNSON

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I'm deep into the history of the blues starting with the short life of Robert Johnson whose 29 recorded songs are considered the greates...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

EASTERN ELECTRIC 1969

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  Following on from the Previous Post. 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

MICK BROWN: Eastern/Western Journalistic Journeys

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Mick Brown's new book  The Nirvana Express is a substantial and valuable historical vehicle exploring as it does the Western interest in...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

MUSIC FROM THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT

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  This is a truly wonderful album. Joyous. A huge range of wonderful instrumentation. Spiritual. Calming. Healing. I played it to an audienc...
Friday, June 23, 2023

EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING; THE CATALOGUE:AN INDEX OF POSSIBILITIES

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  This article was published in   19 Magazine on May 5 th 1973. Text is by Mick Brown and photos by Jean Kisch and John Tibera EVERYTHI...
Friday, May 19, 2023

MICK FARREN

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  Mick was one of the most prominent figures of the British counter-culture. A poet, author, musician, activist. In the late 60s Mick headed...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

ALLEN GINSBERG DAY

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 Monday 15th May: Spotted  a hardback copy of 'The Letters of Allen Ginsberg' in the window of the Bow Windows  bookshop in Lewes. E...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

CHINA DOMINATES ELECTRIC VEHICLES & RARE EARTH METALS

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  Back in January/February 2020 I wrote an extensive groups of Climate Crisis posts on the Greening of Transport: Aviation/Shipping/Railways...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

GENERALIST ARCHIVE: NEW ADDITIONS

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  Three valuable new additions to the Generalist Archive: 'Photography of Protest and Community' by Noni Stacey [2020] Noni Stacey...
Wednesday, March 08, 2023

HAIL SISTERS OF THE REVOLUTION

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  It seems totally appropriate that a copy of 'Hail Sisters of the Revolution' by my dear friend writer/poet/musician Caroline Gilfi...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Nebra Sky Disc

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  This is the Nebra Sky disc, believed to be the oldest surviving representation of the cosmos. It was buried 3,600 years ago and was illega...
Friday, February 24, 2023

LONDON ARTS LAB

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  . 'London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde' by David Curtis. The Worthing Workshop is mentioned in the list of Arts Labs a...
Monday, January 30, 2023

THE MARQUEE CLUB

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   Harold Pendleton who died at the age of 93 in 2017 is perhaps a name not known to the general public but as this book shows he was a key ...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

MUSIC PRESS HISTORY

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 This was the launch party on November 1st 2001 for Rock's Back Pages and Paul Gorman's oral history 'In Their Own Write'. P...