Alan Hay

Love : ‘Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark & Hilldale’

An old lecturer of mine told me that his theatre company, Impact, worked a lot with RH on an adaptation of RW. Never happened - they used aspects of it in their show Carrier Frequency, and he went on to trying to get a film made which eventually stole and simplified his ideas and became Mad Max.

God but Orange Crate Art is a lovely album, especially when played at room-filling volume. Just a really comforting record.

I love this! Includes a lovely setting of a James Joyce poem, from the same collection as ‘Golden Hair’, set by Barrett for Madcap Laughs a couple of years before.

I had just arrived in NYC in I think 1993, and was checking in to the Carlton Hotel. I asked the desk guy for a light and he said “I got one match motherfucker and that’s for me”

Various Artists: Dust On The Nettles - A Journey Through The British Underground Folk Scene 1967-72, 3CD Cherry Red imprint Grapefruit's 3CD various artists anthology Dust On The Nettles: a journey through the British underground folk scene 1967-1972.

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Various Artists: Deep In The Woods - Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975, 3CD Set • Triple CD set collecting rare cuts and cult favourites from the worlds of psychedelic, pastoral and funky folk, 1968-1975. • Focusing on the outpouring of psychedelic folk flavours that emerged s...

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Ok, hello again! Yeah he’s an undergrad at Sussex so I’ll just point him at the library. (Or at you I guess!)

I’m sorry I missed this! I’m not in Cambridge but a friend of mine is doing some work on the KLF million pound thing, and destruction - is your talk published anywhere? (Did I meet you with Daniel Kane in Brighton this year?)

Canned French onion soup. You could add porcini or miso or yeast extract but honestly it’s pretty much good to go right out of the can.

What was at one time the home of the British left, a flawed organisation I was nevertheless proud to be part of, is now collapsing into this malign stupidity, having been, on this issue, captured by a tiny cadre of un-satisfiable maniacs. Disgusting.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

YouTube video by nightly moth Bob Dylan — The Lakes of Pontchartrain. Killarney, Ireland. November 23, 2025.

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40 years ago today, right about now i.e. after school, I was listening to Psychocandy for the first time, as was anyone within fifty feet of my bedroom. Still one of the most exciting things ever to have happened to me.

I think it’s more that people enjoyed bombing about on Raleigh Choppers and watching The Tomorrow People 50 years ago.

YouTube video by Philippe Duhoux The Fall - City Hobgoblins (1980)

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A fantastic episode. Loads of gaps in my understanding filled, side quests initiated, bar facts stored away. Bless you Andrew, this is brilliant work.

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Two seemingly contradictory facts about Coming On The Scene by Johnny & The Attractions: 1. Everyone I know who's heard it absolutely loves it & original copies go for up to £850; 2. Almost nothing has ever been written about it. I've been thinking about why that is. www.patreon.com/posts/it-cou...

Sometimes those records have a bit of magic to them that is really hard to explain. Another example is A Deh Pon Dem by The Soulettes (Rita Marley plus some Wailers I think) made out of The Miracles’ Choosey Beggar. There’s a tone - not melancholy, not sweet - that I don’t think we have a word for.

did the sitwells sit well? an investigation

A dream trip on any UK waterway you say? Well... 50 years ago almost to the day, I was with my parents on an autumn half term holiday trip along the Grand Union towards Leicester when I came across a bridge that someone had painted BALLS TO ENOCH POWELL on. I still dream about this moment. -

Have no idea who put this pristine copy of 11 late-career Frank O’Hara poems—copyrighted by the estate and compiled by Ted Berrigan in 1974—in a little free library box on Cooper Square. But, I think I’m going to hold onto this one…

Define your musical taste in eight artists:

Incredible String Band
Beatles
Arthur Russell
Judee Sill
Shangri Las
The Equals
The Velvet Underground
13th Floor Elevators

"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
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Men run for their lives from fire after arson attack at mosque There has been a fire at a mosque. A man was seen escaping with his life after the fire starts

Arson attack at Sussex mosque.

No, and there will probably be further watering-down. It’s shit. I’m not campaigning for the Labour Party here. I was just pushing back a bit at the ‘they’re all the same, I don’t care if there’s a Reform govt’ which I get why people are saying it but it terrifies me

Well, fine. I agree with you. I’m not arguing with what you are saying about how much worse it is getting, specifically under Labour, for trans people. It is worse. Let’s leave it there. Sorry if I was the cause of any harm.

I don’t think we’re quite there yet but I can certainly foresee a point when I think they 100% can’t win. You could then, or ideally before then, work for an electoral pact G / Lab / LD, coordinated standing aside etc. But with FPTP that’s incredibly risky and complex

Yes

I suppose I still think those are slightly different versions of ‘worse’ that it is possible, although incredibly depressing, to choose between.