'horsemouth must learn to keep silent'

horsemouth is back from a scottish folk gig in south london (alasdair roberts - which was very good, he’s a deft guitarist with a great voice, and you can’t knock the accent, he opened with fair flower of northumberland). sadly by the time horsemouth had turned up he’d missed gemma khawaja’s set and most of nigel (formerly of bermondesy)’s. it was a hot and sticky night in millwall country but the seaside towns mass transit system was working efficiently (this gives horsemouth hope).

tonight horsemouth babysits to enable a gig to occur (see he’s an enabler). he may go to the soundcheck so he can at least hear some of the acts. there’s another one wednesday 14th that looks interesting also.

the andre gide journals (as recommended by susan sontag) have started to happen for horsemouth (the last time he tried was definitely not the time). ‘no books other than dictionaries’ he advises at one point. ‘an angry man tells a story’, as a man who tells a story is not sufficient.

sunday stick in the wheel are playing bermondsey folk festival.

next week horsemouth is back at work - there is greetings to saud (mccoy tyner) day (the anniversary of the recording of elevation by pharoah sanders back in 1973). there is open house weekend.