Monthly Archives: March 2016

Notebook

Posted on March 22, 2016 by clivedav184z

No one in my family ever went to synagogue or paid much attention to being Jewish. We also didn’t talk about being Jewish with other people, so I got the feeling this was something shameful that I needed to hide. … Continue reading →

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Andy Warhol x 2

Posted on March 21, 2016 by clivedav184z

“Warhol’s art has a shattering and mysterious authority,” says one reviewer. Really? When I walked around the Ashmolean’s exhibition, all I detected was the stale aura of yesterday’s celebrity obsessions.  “Look, there’s Paul Anka! Is that Pia Zadora portrait supposed to … Continue reading →

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Two tribes

Posted on March 20, 2016 by clivedav184z

One of my favourite football photos. Sunderland and Newcastle United fans confront each other on derby day at Roker Park, 1980. [Via @TerraceImages]

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Out of step

Posted on March 20, 2016 by clivedav184z

Erick Erickson is an ultra-conservative talk radio host and Tea Party activist, but he’s also anti-Trump. The response has been so vitriolic that he’s had to start looking over his shoulder: Last night, as my family went to bed, a man in a car … Continue reading →

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Soul-searching

Posted on March 19, 2016 by clivedav184z

Tom Waits pays homage to Blind Willie Johnson on my Americana album of the week. My Sunday Times review is here [£]

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Magdalen

Posted on March 18, 2016 by clivedav184z

Oxford last night. On my way home from an RSA meeting.

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Queen Dillie

Posted on March 17, 2016 by clivedav184z

Dillie Keane is on the road without Fascinating Aïda. My review [£] in today’s Times: Keane’s personality soon fills the auditorium. Rummaging through the unfailingly intelligent songs she has written with [Adèle] Anderson over the past three decades, she is … Continue reading →

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Close but no cigar

Posted on March 17, 2016 by clivedav184z

Fidel Castro with a Creek missionary, 1959. From a Mother Jones slideshow on US-Cuban relations.

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The price of streaming

Posted on March 16, 2016 by clivedav184z

Some chastening stats… Songwriter Scott Alan reflects on how the digital revolution has affected him: I was once pulling in over 4K a month for my seven album releases.  These sales were an accumulation of iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby & even … Continue reading →

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In black & white

Posted on March 15, 2016 by clivedav184z

Well, that was a depressing read. Very good book though. The evidence against  O.J. Simpson looked pretty convincing back in 1994. I just hadn’t realized how overwhelming it really was. No one, from the prosecution to the defence and the … Continue reading →

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