Capital
It wouldn’t be true to say that Roger saw the funny side, or had glimpses of perspective, or anything like that; but there were one or two moments on Christmas morning when he was able to remember that things hadn’t always been like this. At about quarter to seven,...
Three Ladies In The Morning
The midtown hotel restaurant was almost empty at eleven-thirty in the morning. Three waiters were talking in a corner, leaning against the wall. A young waitress was going from table to table and cleaning out the ashtrays with a wet rag. No one was seated at the...
Joan Of Arc and the brothers Kinsella
Some bands make music that gets stuck in your head. Others setup a studio in your parietal lobe and spend two decades recording music under a zillion different band names... admittedly there are fewer in the second camp. Context factoidals: Joan Of Arc formed in 1995...
The Shipping News
“If he’d gone on with the others he’d likely have gone into a miserable life. You ask me, Canada was built on the slave labor of those poor Home children, worked to the bone, treated like dirt, half starved and crazed with lonesomeness. See, my father kept in touch...
HI-FI of ’59
1956 was the year that defined jazz, in many ways it was the future of jazz to come.