“I always wanted to be better than anyone else. Cohen and Dylan may be above me in the tower of song but from my own generation I’ll take any of them on. Let them beat this.” Mike Scott about "Out of all This Blue", the most recent album. Going by the knock-out, sonically stunning show in Cardiff on...

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge. No, I have something else in mind. Today I hold a flame in my left hand and a sword in my right. There will be no damage control today. For God is in a mood to plun...

(or, rather, chants with musical accompaniment.)

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Dear Leonard Cohen folk, all - I wish you a wonderful Christmas! x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWC4PUOrbws

That's a beautiful and sincere tribute you made, magnifiedsanctified.

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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink. The way to 'darker' is to kill hope; our hope for transcendence. And when hope even dies, god ...

Great to see you, (and Mr K), L! Wherever life pours ordinary plenty. Won't we be rich, my love and I, and God we shall not ask for reason's payment, The why of heart-breaking strangeness in dreeping hedges Nor analyse God's breath in common statement. We have thrown into the dust-bin the clay-minte...

Hi Kush, good to 'see' you (I haven't 'seen' Steven for a while, so a wave to him, too, if he reads), and ta for the extra stuff on Blue Wing. Mr Russell did mention the story about Little Willie John, and that Johnny Cash had covered the song (I think). Thanks for divesting me of one of my illusion...

A while ago someone pointed out to me a possible reference for the line "your love is some dust in an old man's cuff": Little Gidding, the last of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/winter/w3206/edit/tseliotlittlegidding.html Part II begins, Ash on an old man's sleeve I...

We are having some spectacular sunrises here currently, along with plenty of rain, and The Sky Above, The Mud Below whilst out with my dog earlier reminded me of a fabulous show last week in Cardiff. With humour and panache, Tom did a number of old favourites, including the gems from Blood and Candl...

Jennifer Berezan - In These Arms, A song for all Beings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzPTHstpJ2I

Thanks to you, Tony, I have tix for tomorrow night:-))

Learned to fly. But way too soon. RIP.

Marvellous news!

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Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:59 am

... What an aptly named title ...

... Sure it failed my little fire
But it's bright the dying spark ...

It was a great weekend with wonderful friends full of laughter music poetry walking and even quizzes Perfectly described, Ken! Didn't we have a marvellous time:-)) Huge thanks are due to you and Margaret for arranging the weekend, xx. Those cows were so keen to pose with us. And here is an image fr...