books, films, gigs, events august 2024

books 

- robert holdstock, mythago wood (finished)

- don and moki cherry, organic music society (dips)

- the honourable john byng, tour into sussex 1788

-  sherlock holmes (sir arthur conan doyle), the blue carbuncle, 'the speckled band, the five orange pips, the man with the twisted lip

- a fire in dagenham (GDN, various other news sources)

- vera stanley alder, from the mundane to the magnificent (introduction and start)

- a marina warner review of love's work by gillian rose 

- NLR caitlin doherty on the prospects for starmerism, luke roberts on amelia rosselli's 'sleep' , anton jager on british pogromism

- research on the franklin barnes building in hereford and its sculptor trevor warton

- blackstone the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the uk story and wage growth has slowed to its slowest in two years, spray foam insulation, nova gorica article, george clarke on washington tyne-and-wear, adrian horton's film review of the documentary war game. all the guardian.

- aeron bergman and alejandra salinas,  telepathy (start)

- max ochs, interviewed by tompkins square, january 2005

- LRB seamus heaney on osip and nadezhda mandelstam 

films

- nick drake documentary

-  gustav holst 'neptune'

- a LRB discussion of 'love's work' by gillian rose 

- dave davies  interviewed by alistair campbell and rory stewart

- book pilled top five books this year, outlaw bookseller taking a break from bibliomania

- IFS on why universities are in financial trouble

- LRB podcast on osip and nadezhda mandelstam

- skills builder 'labour's big housing mistake'

- interview with judee sill film-makers

- radio 4, grenfell: building a disaster podcasts

- bloomberg originals. how private equity ate britain 

- NYRB vids (various book-tubers)

gigs

lou and leo, the water chorus and (of course) musicians of bremen

events

richard and stass and dog visit, visits to london to rehearse and play gig, enza's birthday, various events in the year of alice leading up to the ravi coltrane gig in detroit midnight august 30th. distant sounds mixcloud release.