On Sunday I went on an expedition to find the site of Lee Scratch Perry's Black Ark Studio - at 5 Cardiff Gardens ( Read more... )

While I was reading obituaries of Bob Woolmer, who died here the day after I'd been talking to him at a Press Conference, I discovered that Frankie Laine had died.

Frankie Laine was one of the first singers I ever really took notice of, and his version of Lucky Old Sun is still a desert island disc for me. I was about 10 when my auntie gave me an ( Read more... )

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I wonder what I should be thinking. All my adult life I have been more or less an liberal anarcho/syndicalist/socialist. On the left anyway if you know what I mean ( Read more... )

( Some of my favourite films ... which ones? )

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Classic Derrick Harriott from the sixties.

I have been eating a lot of Jamaican food. Red pea soup - there always seems to be a chicken's foot at the bottom of the bowl. It's made with chicken stock, but they don't drain the stock before they put it in the soup! It is delicious though ( Read more... )

Downtown music tour launch tomorrow ( Read more... )

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