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Mahler’s 9th Symphony; Loren Maazel and the LSO. 21st June 2002 Mahler’s 9th is mysterious. The other symphonies – especially the early...

Who would have thought being creative was so much fun? I who prevaricate at the drop of a teaspoon and find myself downstairs making...

My trip to Brazil was comically short. Only four and a half days before I got in a cab and rode back to Salvador airport, changed my...

Earls Court, November 27th 2003 Not being there at the right time. That’s a potent fear that’s stalked my life for many years. The fear...

For anyone who’s been following, this summer has been a fallow one for this blog. Not for me – it’s actually been the most fruitful...

Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life is either brilliant or dreadful. I refuse to decide. For a long time I felt compelled by deep inner...

Written in pink lipstick on the pale yellow tiles of the Ladies loo at the Cross: THEIR SORDID LOVE OF DEATH IS AS NOTHING NEXT TO OUR...

NUTCRACKING BABIES Just back from Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! at Sadlers Wells. And that exclamation mark just about sums it up. It was...

I start to sniff out for signs of Spring earlier and earlier every year. Convinced that deep underground the bulbs and seeds are spinning...

me jumping and screaming to ‘the big curve’ at david byrne’s RFH concert [source]

Today was Gay Pride. I learned a lot. 1) when faced with complete technical meltdown in the radio studio and an open mike to the airwaves...

The Birth of the Blog Gadzooks. The Earth moved and there was Blog. All on a dreary morning in NW10. Who would have thought it. (Should...

Went to meet a friend in the Orangery in Kensington Gardens and made an effort to get there early, on my bicycle. It was a damp, cold...

Having travelled back through Pisa I wonder whether my strange mood was more to do with Florence than a imbalance of deities. Back in...

It’s been a while since I’ve written in here about ayahuasca. This is partly because the work I’ve been doing there, in Brazil, has been...

I’ve been watching the American election coverage mainly through blogs and Facebook postings of my friends over there and I’m reminded of...