Three bands that got it loud at ‘Get it Loud in Libraries‘ – Lancaster Library’s fabulous and deservedly prize winning semi occasionally regularly excellent series of music nights. A big and alarmingly youthful crowd gathered squished in amongst the shelves in the music section and were treated first to Leed’s Sky Larkin, a three piece [...]
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Sky Larkin, You Say Party We Say Die, Los Campesinos – Lancaster Library
Posted in Lancashire, Lancaster, Literature and Arts, Live Music Review, Photography, indie, twee shit, other jingly jangly guitar music, tagged , Lancaster, Los Campesinos, Music, photo, review, Sky Larkin, You Say Party We Say Die on October 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Houdini’s Suitcase: Theatre Review (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster)
Posted in Lancashire, Lancaster, Literature and Arts, theatre on September 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pickled Image’s devised work Houdini’s Suitcase promises a dreamlike world, a piece of visual poetry and delivers pretty much on that pledge. An intriguing mixture of performance, puppetry and a rich soundtrack, the action centres arround an old man on a railway station surrounded by his suitcases. Each of the suitcases seems to hold a [...]
Falling Man : Don Delillo
Posted in Book Review, Literature and Arts on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I think like anyone, 9:11 capitivated me. I think like most people apart from a few mad Americans who actually want to be at war, I’m fed up of hearing about it.
I’m not interested in conspiracies or recreations or tragic tales. So why did I read
this book then? Perhaps I am interested after all? – Maybe, those wierd days, when we kept being told ‘The world is different now,’ those odd few hours, when it was all but impossible to work out was going on did require some reflection upon.
Now, Delillo - hmm, I read Underworld, and thought it half a book of staggering insight and half a bit dull. Some of his other stuff is, well, pretentious.
And I like pretention, but well, I dunno, Dellilo seems sometimes like, pre packaged philosophising and all grand, over - blown conclusions where none really, actually exist. His characters seem to spend a lot of time coming to giant realisations [...]
