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The Best Tower of London Tour
The Best Tower of London Tour ever
This has to be the finest guided tour of the Tower Of London one could wish for. Bill Callaghan is like many other Yeoman Warders very very knowledgeable regarding the history of the Tower of London. He also has a unique presentation, and I would bet that if one was on the tour they would learn more history than they could ever learn in school. His descriptive prose regarding William Wallace,…
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Occasional links, mostly reviews, 2014-09-06
Alasdair and Ross Whyte are performing songs from their collaboration in public for the first time on 26 October, in Braemar, naturally enough.
This review of Alasdair supporting Bill Callaghan last month is brief. It reads in full, "Still friendly, still very celtic and folky, and still not really up my alley. The third to last song was fantastic, though!"
This review of Hirta Songs is three or four times as long.
If you prefer your reviews still longer, denser and more generously sprinkled with references to Wire-friendly artists, in French, here's one of Spoils for you.
Naomi Bedford's album, A History of Insolence, with at least one song featuring Alasdair, is released on Monday:
the good people of Folk Radio UK give it the treatment
Robin Denselow gives it a column-inch or two in The Guardian
more reviews will appear, no doubt, on Naomi's own site
Occasional links 2014-04-13
May brings more Roberts/Robertson performances of Hirta Songs around the celtic ray:
at Laugharne, as part of one of the Dylan Thomas centenary festivals there this year
and in Dublin as part of the Writers Festival there
Is Bill Callaghan coming back to Europe in August with Alasdair in support?
Un vieil album d'Alasdair Roberts dans les oreilles et le monde devient plus beau...
— Julien Courbe (@rockohblogo) April 10, 2014
Ummm...Das stimmt!
Occasional links 2014-02-16
A couple of reviews of recent shows with Bill Callaghan that mention Alasdair in Manchester and in Bristol (as one twitterer put it, "Last time I saw these guys they were called Smog & Appendix Out").
Here's a photo from the Paris show. According to Alasdair, the artist is Stéphane Cattaneo.
The Financial Times reviews The Furrow Collective album "The Old Weird Britain never sounded older or weirder" and here's an Italian review of Hirta Songs.
Looks like Alasdair may be going all Theodor Adorno on us again at the "On collecting: music, materiality and ownership" conference in July in Edinburgh.
Google Translate doesn't help much with this — can you?
Interview met Hiss Golden Messenger & Alasdair Roberts uitwerken. Vond vlak na de gezamelijke sessie op Fading Trails plaats.
— Jasper Willems (@Jasper1023)
February 12, 2014
More often than not , Seasick Steve is just as fun, lively and instantly likeable as ever. Who cares if you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, because here’s another dumb truism: the old ones are the best.
When I was seven My father said to me, "You can't swim," And I never dreamed of the sea again.
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