Some sketches for Spring. O-Town is normally a place where posh people complain about an extra ounce of ham on their butcher's bills. Recently this sleepy place has knocked out some great pop in KIEFF, Mobedick and now Oh Happy Days; aka Maurijn, another discontented...
In an interview given at Green Man in 2015 Mark E Smith attributed the fall of Christian belief in the UK to the wetness of the new hymns. He had a point. But he needn't have worried if he had heard this set of observances,...
Look at the titles, this is romanticism stripped bare. Dogs, Cologne, Party, Happy Birthday, Towards You. It could be a haiku. Academic-in-exile Gerlov van Engelenhoven is back with a folio of witty Chattertonisms set to music. There is something of the campfire minstrel about van...
This is the sound of what happens when real life intervenes. I'm sure the likes of TS Eliot, VS Pritchard or Virginia Woolfe would have settled for normality in their private lives and chucked the writing thang in for winning the lottery and getting some...