The alphabet rolls on, and it’s now ‘H’. Post anything connected to the letter, not just music – happy to have heaps of highly honed horror films, hardboiled, humorous historical fiction, Hockneys, Holbeins, Hogarths, Hirsts, Hepworths.

Here’s one to start it off: Happy Mondays – Hallelujah

and some art by Howard Hodgkin:

Going forward (I know) to the next letter in the alphabet, please give generously to the glossary of good taste (?) in music, film, art, books, etc of any cultural goodies beginning with ‘g’.

Getting things started, here’s a guitarist by Gauguin: and Ghost Town:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slmb4ZZ5pkY

The fortnightly feature for 2015, foisting fine fragments of culture, whether music, art, film, etc for each successive letter is here again. Will you find your love under the letter ‘F’?

Two weeks have gone by and it’s time once more for me to request your favourite contributions to the Afterword cultural encyclopaedia – anything, be it music, dance, art, sculpture as long as it begins with an ‘E’ – because everything starts with an ‘E’

Reposting the contributions to the first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.

Please offer up any cultural artefacts with tenuous connection to the letter ‘D’.

Here’s Datblygu with Drug Addict (Rauschgiftsuchtige) to kick us off. Why? Because it’s excellent, gives us a Double D model*, and it mentions the great New York art music goddess herself. ____ The Damned – Disco Man The Dangerous Brothers World Of Danger All That Glitters – Death in Vegas Depth Charge – Shaolin Buddha Finger Devo – Jocko Homo (original version) Dream Academy – Life In A Northern Town Deep Purple – Fireball Nothing Personal – Dust Junkys The Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia Ian Dury – Sweet Gene Vincent Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, the – Television, The Drug Of The Nation [full… Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused Desmond Dekker & The Aces – “Israelites” Davey Graham – Medley: She Moved Thru’ the Bizarre/Blue Raga (He had it all but foolishly squandered it with Heroin, because he believed the ridiculous (prevalent at the time) notion that it would make him play better.) DR. FEELGOOD – Roxette Dead or » Continue Reading.

Reposting the contributions to the first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.

Just two weeks further into the year of combing your collections of chanson, country, crooning, crunk, cinema, canvas creations and it was the turn for anything beginning with the letter ‘C’. We’d only just begun.

The Carpenters “We’ve Only Just Begun” Carmel – More More More Charlie Rich – Mohair Sam The Cure – Love Cats Camel – Lady Fantasy For Richard – Caravan (John Peel’s session) Coogan….wonderful The Alan Partridge Air Bass Dance Chagall Cezanne Christopher Brookmyre….great Scottish writer, looking forward to his new book “Dead Girl Walking” Goldfrapp – ‘Clay’ A railway poster from the 1930s by ‘Cassandre’ (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron). One of the great designers of the Art Deco period. Cassandre was also famous for his designs for Dubonnet and transatlantic passenger shipping lines. CABARET VOLTAIRE – SENSORIA Curve – Ten Little Girls Rush-“Clockwork Angels”-(In the binary world of Rush fans the steampunk concept Clockwork Angels from 2012 was their finest work, maybe since Moving Pictures, maybe ever. Okay then, ever!) robert calvert ejection 1974 Red Right Hand – Nick Cave » Continue Reading.

Reposting the contributions to first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.

I started ‘B’ by going Back to Basics with Billy Bragg and la la la la la means : the Saturday BOY (with bonus banter and badinage)

Billy Bragg, “The Saturday Boy” Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (live) Use Me – Bill Withers (1972) Bennett, Tony….no one, not even Nancy’s dad ,comes close. Beatles? Can’t post videos right now but a song called Strawberry Fields is pretty good Blur – Song 2 Jorge Ben – Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma) B-52’s – Planet Claire Dierks Bentley – Drunk On A Plane Franco Battiato – Cuccurucucu The Bangles – Eternal Flame (La Flama Enterna) Big Bill Broonzy – Backwater Blues The Bad Plus – Lost Of Love Luther Vandross – A House Is Not A Home (Burt Bacharach) Biff Bang Pow, The Creation Brogues Guardian Guide. The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps Too Nice to Talk To – The Beat THE BEATINGS-Bad Feeling Brush strokes – Opening & Closing titles. Beastie Boys – Shambala-Bodhisattva Vow Francis Bacon and Melvyn Bragg Go on a Pub Crawl » Continue Reading.

Following last year’s Image Resolution, I felt inclined to start 2015 with similar ambition, As there are 52 weeks in the year and 26 letters in the alphabet, I launched (on KFD’s Facebook group) a thread a fortnight, inviting comments about artists, acts, albums, authors, actors, in fact artistry of any sort with the common link of the first letter. For those non-Fbers who might be interested, to get my first post off, I will repost the contributions to first four threads on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.

Here goes with ‘A’: ABC – All Of My Heart (Where else to start) AC/DC-It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) – the very essence of ROCK in both Bon and Brian-fronted guises. New Album in 2014 was very much a case of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – a little of the sparkle gone, but an aural treat all the same. Jackson 5 ABC Herb Alpert and The Tijuna Brass – Spanish Flea Abba – The Day Before You Came (They have to be here) Associates Breakfast (Unique Version) Cultural Importance? So much » Continue Reading.