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Dark Weather will be a collection of of my eco poems written over 40 years. https://darkweather.substack.com/ eco literature in a time of ruined ecology I always on verge of continuing the podcast Trailer Star Radio https://tapeheaven.substack.com/
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From Oxford Sermons a sequence of three poems written about the Afghanistan war before 9/11 Politics, more or less. We wrap ourselves as a nation in blankets of powder and guns. And stand on the chalk hills defying the invader to come. online here: shaunbelcher.com/writing/?pag...

Cumbia Shoes is the backing band to Chuck Prophet but their actual band is Quinesave? who(knew:-) who are a great Cumbia Urbana group from Salinas California here their music qiensaveband.bandcamp.com/.../qiensave.... qiensavemusic.com/about/

A man in silver cowboy boots shone brightly in Nottingham last night with excellent backing band The Cumbia Shoes. Phenomenal performance all round. Chuck Prophet thank you.

My Back Pages: Art 2005

In-depth review of Dylan and his early years that refers in passing to the glaring anomalies in the recent biopic. Instead it focuses on the importance of Bertolt Brecht in the formation of the young genius. Long but really worthwhile read. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

From 2017 the more things change the more they stay the same..... youtu.be/8Sx96sDYI98?...

superb box set of mozart quintets Grumiaux Trio With Arpad Gérecz, Max Lesueur

So long Marianne...

Another LP recorded in 1956 and 1959 released 1960 featuring Jimmy Guiffre Three and The Beaux Arts Trio attempted to weld classical and jazz together into a new genre 'Third Stream Music'.

I was 66 this week....pension age in UK. Interesting to see what being recorded and released 66 years ago here one..released February 1960 recorded throughout 1959 alongside sessions for Kind of Blue released August 1959 recorded March and April 1959.

The thrill of vinyl hunting is finding a 50 year old lp with tracks recorded 60 years ago that plays as if new....makes 66 years which I attained today seem like only yesterday...here a track ironically called 'Birthday Present' fom Latin Byrd. youtu.be/y032bYdbIsU?...

Last of the Ulster boys passes away at 85 a very fine poet

Excellent analysis on LBC youtu.be/kWuzeHKXyCI?...

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me

I saw Martin Carthy in 1985 or thereabouts and probably at the King and Queen Fitzrovia. Maybe my friend Pete Astor remembers better than me. Anyway he is playing Nottingham's Peggy's Skylight tonight at the age of 83. Time to see again....here a rare EP I never knew existed from 1967.

Rough Trade bargain ltd ed. Feelies LP in sale and it brilliant...the FEELIE Underground..

worrying sfist.com/2024/12/23/a...

The bots are on the increase basically any name followed by a number @bskyb is a bot and should be blocked. I'd say bots are winning at present maybe Musky sent them... To all the genuine followers and humans welcome...

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" Shelley Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Ted Hughes working off the genius of Rachel Carson they all predicted where we are now but still the fires burn the seas rise.. Dark Weather is here. Hollywood burns is not a movie set....

Cook and Moore on Cavett show USA.....

Before Donny and Musky there were these leaders of the free world talking absolute sense..

Warm music for a cold day

Possibly the oddest movie about folk music ever made...Ken Russell on English Folk Music.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt6H...

My Back Pages: ART Ralegh Long painting for LP cover raleghlong.bandcamp.com/album/upward...

My Back Pages: ART Bonetree linocut 1991

My Back Pages: ART Bonetree acrylic paint and cardboard collage 1984

Xmas Vinyl

Long suspected now proven how Spotify works against musicians...

I left X because it obvious Musk was a threat to UK democracy now he ranting about Stalinist UK..hey dude there plenty of UK who ready to welcome you with their T34s...you forget Battle of Britain and Stalingrad.. we know how to fight real fascism...and we know it when we see it.

The new "European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987)" collection from NTS is comfortably an early contender for best compilation of 2024. youtu.be/VOXtvB11i6M?... n-t-s.bandcamp.com/album/europe... 🎧 #musicsky

My Back Pages: MUSIC Devil's Dirt Road from Chalk Pit Rattle trailerstar.bandcamp.com/track/devils...

My Back Pages: ART 1985 Acrylic on Canvas 24" x 24"

MY BACK PAGES: POETRY Random poems from the archive. Sea Ravens from Farm Hand's Radio Poems 1996-2000 more info here: shaunbelcher.com/writing/?pag...

Now listening to a cheap Rediffusion (UK TV sellers 1970s) box of repackaged Supraphon Czech Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky 'bangers'. Superb Watacic, Slovak and Ancerl with Sviatoslav Richter. Not bad for £2. Below the cheap box packaging with horses and the originals..

“poems individually and cumulatively preserve aspects of identity and genealogy rooted in a particular soil and way of life, an underlying humaneness.” Stewart Conn Free download: shaunbelcherwrites.substack.com/p/last-farme...

My Back Pages: ART Poster for art show 2016 the painting no longer exists

MY BACK PAGES: POETRY Random poems from the archive. Dark Marilyn 2024 More writing here: shaunbelcher.com/writing

Ten books I love meme No. 1 Full circle the only book my father ever owned. A school prize before he sent to fields as labourer at 14. He was denied further education left that to me…. Never wrote but thought and spoke a lot. In a fire this the book I save…