Chris Barrett

Orange Green Menace

The Magnificent Six Seven

Between A Grock And A Hard Piece - Luciano Berio's Sequenza V For Trombone Solo (1966) Between 1958 and 2002, Luciano Berio composed a series of fourteen virtuoso solo pieces. Called "sequenzas", they were often written with sp...

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Add one word to a film to ruin it.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying Sheep and Love the Bomb

Wilko store goods entrance. One of the Os is missing, so it reads God's Entrance.

Fond memories of the Wilko Rheingold.

It's the Chagos trip all over again.

Yeah, the rest of the world is trying to get away from all that too. But can't.

EVERYTHING'S NEPO THESE DAYS

(I'm always quite proud when I find something it's never heard of).

Not sure tbh. Whatever recognises the CDs on my computer is full of mistakes. I quite enjoy the loading up process. I tend to sit and watch something while I load a pile in.

I'm determined to make my own choices when it comes to music, but if someone else is not that bothered, fair enough.

You just need a raging collecting habit and a room to store it all in. What's the problem?

I've got a souped-up Mp3 player (better sound than that) and I love it. Big memory card with more music than I could ever hear. Mind you, young people would be baffled by the fact that all that music came from CDs - laboriously loaded onto the player (via the laptop).

Still, you might get a McDonalds and trip to the zoo. Or their geopolitical equivalents.

If you want to run Iran, you need a particular glasses game.

let's have a br(idesh)ead

Bit unwieldy for the poster, though.

This sounds brilliant.

wittgenstein's cock-habit

My mixtape: Alexandra Dariescu's 10 pieces by female composers you need to hear | Southbank Centre The celebrated pianist presents a playlist of works by ten female composers you ought to know.

It’s International Women’s Day and International Women are great.

So here are five pieces from inspirational international women I’ve been lucky enough to speak with over the last year.

Firstly, Alexandra Dariescu, with a playlist of 10 female composers you need to hear…

#np Zimmermann - Die Soldaten Vocal Symphony. The walls are melting.

He got Josquin cancelled.

seen them given

you get a lollipup?

Red Hands and Cheap Stays: Class in The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West’s first novel The Return of the Soldier was first published in 1918 and has just been republished for the Virago 40 series. At the beginning of the novel, the soldier of the title is inju...

You could also check out my piece on her brilliant novel, The Return of the Soldier.

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oh hello. here we go.

Ha!

Me on the sofa. A lovely grey cat is putting his arms round my neck.

Tbt the day a neighbourhood cat wandered through the patio door, put his arms round my neck and nosed me (not pictured).