I can’t remember exactly who bought me The Eye Of The World by Robert Jordan, or when, but I definitely started reading it around May 2014. Since then, I have worked my way through the entire series, on and off, … Continue reading
If you listened to Uborkast last year then you may remember me mentioning my intention to try out some gig photography. Well, it took me a little while, but I finally got round to it! On Saturday night I took … Continue reading
No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory … Continue reading
Part of the reason for me beginning this project was the release of this album. Conveniently, as the project was coming to a close, I discovered that a new album, Blackstar, was in the works, which would enable me to … Continue reading
The news that there’d be a new Bowie album out in January meant that it made sense to take my time over this one, so that I’d be able to append Blackstar to the end of the project without a … Continue reading
Karen and I were looking for something to do last night, and I stumbled upon a play being put on by South Street’s company-in-residence called “Be Brave and Leave for the Unknown”. Let’s give it a try, we thought, and … Continue reading
This review has been exactly as troublesome as I thought it would be. This album marks the huge landslide transition from “Bowie albums where I might already know one or two of the songs” to “Bowie albums that I know … Continue reading
Two favourites: He wishes for the cloths of heaven, by William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the … Continue reading