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November 30, 2020

Ultimate Covid Playlist

Sweet Dreams I awoke from a terrible nightmare in the early hours of this morning. My wife said I kept shouting “Buffoons, Clowns, Prigs, Incompetents.... Help.... Johnson, Hancock, Whitty, Daddy....…

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Music Philosophers

October 26, 2020

Autumn Leaves, Michel de Montaigne and the Blockheads

Yesterday, in the midst of my own lockdown madness, my grumpy mood was suddenly lifted by a scene looking across a valley to the west of Bolton. Reasons To Be…

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Music The Garden

October 9, 2020

Don’t Leave Me This Way – The End of A Garden Affair

It’s raining it’s pouring... The old man is snoring.... He went to bed with an artist’s head, and woke up in a garden bed in the morning. Not exactly Wordsworth…

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Art Music Sculpture

October 2, 2020

Hard Wire 3 – The Thief of Time

There was a reason why my Mum used to berate me with a phrase which still rings in my ears: "Procrastination is the Thief of Time Neil. Stop talking about…

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Art History Music Sculpture

September 25, 2020

Hard Wire 2 – Beauty and the Beast

Who cares what sculpture means? What’s good art and what’s bad? I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) "I know what I like and I like what I know"…

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Music Wire Figures

September 21, 2020

Hard Wire – Sculpture or Musical Cheese? That is the question

I’ve received several requests recently to undertake commissions for wire figures of musicians. Great you might think! But a few minutes on the drawing board sees me frustrated that every…

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Music The Garden

September 11, 2020

Would you Adam and Eve it? Jimi Hendrix just interrupted my drive on the third tee

First a flash of green appeared. I wasn’t sure what I’d just seen. Was it a bird or a plane? Then squadrons of vibrant lime green Aussies appeared cartwheeling across…

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