True Form
I saw her again, last night, As I slept. Unlike any time before In all previous visits – She annexed my mind with incomparable beauty, Yet completely unattainable to me. This time, however, she was atrocious. Yellowed eyes, blackened teeth, scaled skin, Patches of dead, colorless hair strewn across a mangy scalp. Her...
‘The Weave’: Album Review
Venture down a dark, city centre back street in Liverpool on certain nights and you may hear the distant sound of a singing, high trumpet emanating from some low lit local bar or pub: invariably this will be the sound of Martin Smith and his group. For numerous years the improvising trumpeter and now composer...
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Amidst Art and Wilderness in Arizona
I stood at the top of Cathedral Rock, overlooking the clutter of red rocks in the distance. Below, cars trailed across the landscape on pieces of gray ribbon, looping intricately around dull desert vegetation and more rocks. A strong wind blew, whipping locks of my hair against my lips and shoving me against a rogue...
Stealing Sheep + Support (Homecoming Xmas Gig), The Kazimier, 14th December 2012
It was a chilly evening to be outside waiting too long, but that was where this writer found himself on the gig night; warned of a possible sell-out night, arriving early was the best course of action in order to secure a ticket – foolishly on reflection as one could have been bought online in...
MelloMello: Averted Closure?
MelloMello is a grassroots music venue and down-to-earth cafe located near the ropewalks of Liverpool city centre on the corner of Slater Street and Parr Street, nearby to Wolstenholme Square. In recent years it has become an increasingly important meeting point for Merseyside artists of all types and regularly presents high quality local, national and...
The New York Literary Flâneur: A Syllabus
New York is the ultimate walking city. If ever a New World metropolis has seduced its inhabitants and visitors alike to play at being the flâneur, then it is the Big Apple. Despite the city’s dizzyingly exaggerated vertical axis, the street is a constant focal point. No-one climbs to the top of the Empire State...
Flying to the Islands
As one flies to more and more remote places stuff becomes smaller and smaller- a bit like a tree; the further from the trunk, the smaller the branches. At Birmingham airport, unused to flying by myself, I paced the departure lounge until my flight was called. We descended one of those large square tubes that...
Fringe Review: Benjamin Crellin Stands To Reason
Benjamin Crellin’s brand of comedy is mainly observational, sometimes shocking, often funny and always energetic. Opening to an almost empty room, it wasn’t hard to feel sorry for Benjamin and to admire his bravery and oomph from beginning of his set. He opened with some great gags, taking us through his thoughts on modern life,...
Belonging
Eyes open to obstructed skies Not quite scraped, but somewhat hidden Sunlight bends and shifts Through glass, steel, and pavement Merged and stacked to hold our lives Eardrums quake to the energies Of all things near and far Folks, creatures, and contraptions alike In continual motion All tending to tasks unrelated Both above...
