Jack Hepplewhite, AKA Mr Blind Pig
Published 30 Sep 2010 09:30
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Since the Outside:Inside Festival, I have had a lot more time to think, and some time to organise things. Yup, it’s list time. This is just one of the lists which I have been writing. There is no real theme to it, just what I do and don’t like.
THINGS THAT I QUITE LIKE:
l Apples. Ladies and gentlemen. It is long overdue I know, but I am a convert. Not only are they sweet and delicious, but I have a massive tree in my garden, Cox’s, Pink Ladies, Russets, Grannys, iPokiepads and iTypers.
l IDRchitecture. Well, I have liked these chaps for a while. Now, with all the chatter about whether the IDR development will, or won’t, I started thinking again about one of the best things to come out of the inner distribution road.
l Staff Benda Bilili. Possibly the best new World music talent of the summer. A group of paraplegics, living in and around a zoo in Kinshasa, Congo. They make their own instruments out of things they find, including their young prodigious lead guitar player, and his one string electrified lute made ingeniously out of an old tin can! In fact the only imported instrumental materials the band possess is the drum kit... er..which is a plastic chair.
l Bill’s. Have you been there yet?..WHY NOT??! It’s amazing. It’s more than amazing. Don’t mess abaaat! Get down to the back of the St Mary’s Butts Church and check it out. Reading? A clone town? huh?
THINGS THAT I DON’T LIKE:
l The Cold. I can’t really whinge about things that I don’t like much of at the moment, because apart from the obvious, or the boring, there isn’t really anything. But I’m not really enjoying the cold. In the space of a week, I have gone from wearing summery Hawaian shirts, to a very thick tweed. Alas, it is England and we love it warts n all, for it is what it is and it is why I am finishing this column talking about the weather.
I will be wearing my extremely warm tweed jacket this Saturday, perhaps with a hat as well. Come down to the Oakford Social Club, at 8pm, for our We All Live And Die night, with a bag full of warming records and warming rum. You can share the music, but you will have to get your own rum.
This article appeared in Reading Chronicle 30 Sep 10
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