Remembering Ivor Cutler

by | Dec 10, 2009 | General News

Today I noticed that my friend Ian had signed up for the Facebook fan page of Ivor Cutler. I hadn’t thought about Ivor Cutler for a long time, yet he was a big part of my youth. So, this being the twenty-first century, I signed up too. I was a bit rubbish at...

Making history into bad history

by | Dec 8, 2009 | General News

Last night I made a cup of tea, put my feet up on the coffee table and watched a DVD about Oliver Cromwell’s incursion into Ireland. I know, I know, it should have been a Wire box set or Bagpuss at the very least but, with an impending book deadline thundering...