This article has some excellent background on that Burundi album.

A drum track from Joni now: The Jungle Line

She sampled the Burundi Drums from a record of Burundi Music.

A tale well told.

I’m of the belief that one needs to take a few unexpected paths.

But when you suddenly notice that the signposts are now in a language that you don’t understand, it might be time to use the GPS.

One thing that I learnt recently about Swedish tabloids is that they have different headlines on display on the newstands and in shops than they do on line. The former are deliberately targeted at older readers […]

What a party that must have been! Remarkable that that clip exists at all.

A useful comment on YT.

“This is Matt Groening’s 39th birthday party. He’s in there, along with Beverly D’Angelo.”

Thanks for thinking of me, @Junior. You are quite right, I find this very interesting,

I am a little proud to confess that, while still a schoolboy back in the 60s, while visiting Wealdstone Public Library, I […]

The late , great Marie Fredriksen recorded more than a few fine ballads in Swedish too.

Talking of good taste, I think we’ve missed this splendid, infectiously catchy floorfiller …

It used to go down a bomb at children’s parties at nursery school.

Some of those autobiographies you mention, Jaygee, would have fitted in well on this thread.

But I was amazed how many books Julian Cope as written and the variety of genres he has written in. Autobiographies, […]

I had to check he was still with us…

Songwriter, novelist, politician: a man of many parts!

Patti Smith stared her career as a poet. So it’s no great surprise that she can write well.

Nevertheless, it is […]

Hats off to Durham Book Festival for inviting Willy to attend.

As Feedback says, he is a fine writer., and well worthy of our attention.

I do hope he leaves some time over for his excellent band….

A slightly different, somewhat rowdier kettle of fish…..

Sci fi novelist, Michael Moorcock, collaborated with Hawkwind on several occasions. Here he is performing live with them in 1985.

Many years ago, I did read Cohen’s first novel, the largely autobiographical, The Favourite Game, and rather enjoyed it.

Here’s a gem. A very young Len on Canadian TV in 1963, talking about his novel.

Here’s the press release for The Ormering Tide.

Kathryn doing her day job.

Very true. But what is such a delight about this list is that you can nominate as many song as you wish. This means all manner of wonderful esoteric stuff is being remembered.

Our Spotify Playlist up to 355 songs […]

Delighted to see G W McLennan making an appearance, @Charlie Gordon. That is a fine song.

That’s a fine album. No complaints about Aimee, Billy, Mercury, B & S, Willard etc either.

Mieskuoro Huutajat – the Huutajat Male Voice “Choir.”

Sufficiently bonkers?

That is exquisite, Steve.

For some reason, I presumed he’d chosen only Scottish poets, but far from it.

Cummings, Rimbaud, Dickenson….

It’s on Spotify too!

That is wonderful, Black. One of those clips where, as the cameramen really understood, the audience is probably more interesting than the band. No disrespect meant to Laibach!

That led me to this gem. 90 […]