Summer is shelved, shall we start the succeeding season with special selections of sensational sounds and sights? The compendium has now reached ‘S’ – show what you savour!. (I think I could almost live with just music from this letter).

Swann and Flanders, (as they weren’t known), sketched by Ronald Searle

I have to start with the Sisters, from back when they were inspired by Joy Division, not Walter White The Sisters of Mercy – Some Kind of Stranger

The return of the regular request to reply with a rendering from your repertoire of remarkable records This time it’S the pirates’s favourite – R

Anything, be it musical, litereary, cinematic, televisual, artistic – is much appreciated.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti with an ill-advised mis(s)adventure with a Chapman Stick…

To start, here’s Rammstein – Rosenrot – love their teutonic sensationalism.

The quest goes on to quarry out more quaint quantities of quality from your cultural quivers. This time, the quiz is on for the letter ‘Q’.

Here is Quentin Blake being surprisingly modern:

And my favourite Q has to be Quicksilver Messenger Service – here playing live – Mona

Putting together another piece in the partwork preparing for pride of place in your pedal bin, it’s the letter ‘P’. Please present any personal precious preferences below:

To push off, here’s Pablo

and Propaganda: (P-Machinery)

Oh joy! Once again, another OP inviting all sorts of favourite cultural clippage, this time with the theme ‘O’

So, step through Georgia O’Keefe’s magnificent O, and let’s gOOOOOO!

First from me is O Superman (the beginnning of my infatuation) -:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIqA3i2zQw

Now, the next node in the notebook of naming nurtured (musical) numbers, novels, etc. Here we go, everybody! Another fortnight of clips as the letter ‘n’ proudly presents itself for your inspiration and ridicule.

To my shame, the only artwork connected to the letter ‘n’ I could find was the cover of Rio, by Patrick Nagel – I’m sure there are others?

And here’s a song that should be uncontroversial: Nick Drake – Northern Sky

Mid-June and mid compendium – muddling the way through to ‘M’. More and more, this feels like a mindless meditation on a microcosm of the massive material out there.

Maybe, but you’ve been mighty magnanimous to mainline two weeks’ worth of alphabetical goodness 12 times this year. Care to continue? There’s mountains of marvelous melody out there!

(mid period Bob Dylan, c/o Edouard Manet)

Here’s a clip to get things started from a Word-friendly bunch:

The letter ‘L’ is the next stop on the leisurely lollop down alphabet lane, so load up any music, art, film, book or cultural artifact that looks like a long loved lodestone. (Bill Fris-ell by Gary Larson)

We are approaching the heart of the compendium, so melt into the trance of L.S:G. – possibly my favourite sound ever

The year moves on, and it’s time for another letter. Anything and everything you hold dear that starts with ‘K’, please!

Kicking off with the KLF – let’s build a fire!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4xpR2m2YtQ

You’ve been so forthcoming so far on this alphabetic odyssey – given lots to enjoy. That 10th letter of the alphabet is calling out for music, film, art, books, anything beginning with ‘j’. Take it away! . Here’s one of my favourite jovial pictures – by Augustus John: . And below is a fine old Scottish ballad, which seems appropriate right now – Just Like Honey:

I”d implore individual interests to introduce irrepressible ideas for this ninth trip into the Afterword Alphabet. It may be an irrelevant interlude, but I enjoy every comment posted, be it on music, film, art, literature, dance, whatever.

As long as it begins with ‘I’

Thanks for bearing with me and remember, on this virtual forum, It’s Immaterial:

https://youtu.be/HNGBB_nSwx4

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’