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Eoghan Barry
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I can't see the lines I used to think I could read between
Great, thanks.
March 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Is there any support? What are the stage times?
March 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Glowing review from Richard Williams at The Blue Moment.
‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’état’
Sixty years ago Archie Shepp wrote a provocative column for Down Beat magazine in which, if memory serves, he compared his tenor saxophone to a machine gun in the hands of a Vietcong fighter. In th…
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November 18, 2024 at 9:40 PM
I imagine it closely tracks the growth of the B format paperback...you could look at when imprints like Picador were launched (1972, it appears).
October 11, 2023 at 11:45 AM
Reminds me of the invention of the equally meaningless term "world music" as a way of staking out space in record shops, although that one literally was the work of four people in a (doubtless) smoke-filled room.
October 11, 2023 at 11:34 AM
I was born in 1972 and spent a lot of the years since working in the book trade — interesting to learn that a concept which seemed part of the furniture only popped into the world around the same time I did.
October 11, 2023 at 11:31 AM
It ran for about thirty issues, I think. Some of the later ones ran to book length, sort of similar to Re/Search
October 10, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Not to mention Le Guess Who coming up fast in November…
October 9, 2023 at 9:07 PM
Tad and Whipping Boy for sure, don’t remember who else I saw there. Pains me every time I walk past that building to see it in that state.
October 9, 2023 at 6:57 AM