Why I Love Captain Beefheart

Here are some reasons why I love Don Van Vliet or Captain Beefheart as he was otherwise known.
His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called the Magic Band, which was active from the mid-1960s through to the early 1980s. Van Vliet was primarily a singer, but played harmonica and very [...]

Hip Hop Part 3 of X : A virus let loose on the English Language

Ingerlish – The beginnings
I mentioned briefly in the last blog (part 2) that one of the tools subverted by the hip hop phenomenon was the English language itself by the rappers and scene members. Not all musical scenes when they burst forth have a verbal equivalent that is also brought into being at the same [...]

Romantic Interlude

I went into the Manchester Civil Art Gallery the other day and the one painting that transfixed me was this one of the Greek Legend Sappo – an 1877 painting by Charles-August Mengin (1853-1933).
…i bought the postcard and took it home for a quid – stuck it on the side of my peripheral vision on [...]

Hip Hop (Part 2 of X): Subverting the tools is cool

HipHop (Part 2 of X) : Subverting the Tools is Cool
other people do the person x and y did this or that track…this isn’t one of those articles..
Digital Watches Mark The Beginning…The moon landing set the seed of the expanding future in our parents minds of outer space and endless possibility of technology. It truth [...]

Hip Hop (Part 2 of X): Subverting the tools is cool

HipHop (Part 2 of X) : Subverting the Tools is Cool
other people do the person x and y did this or that track…this isn’t one of those articles..
Digital Watches Mark The Beginning…
The moon landing set the seed of the expanding future in our parents minds of outer space and endless possibility of technology. It truth [...]