Astrolabes
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Following a tip off from Rima Staines , I went to see the Al-Mizan exhibition at Oxford's Museum of the History of Science yesterday. ...
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The drugs do work, apparently
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With its pages stuffed full of the gurning faces of the fashionably wasted, I've always steered clear of Mixmag . But I picked up the la...
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Canterbury Soundwaves

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Like most hippies, I spent much of my twenties in a fug of hashish, losing myself in fantasy fiction and listening to prog-rock. One of my f...
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BBC Folk Awards 2011
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The BBC Folk Awards were announced last Monday and there were some worthy winners. James Fagan and Nancy Kerr richly deserved Best Duo - y...
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Truck Store opens
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In an age when record shops are shutting even faster than pubs, HMV is teetering on the brink and the Vigin Megastore is but a footnote in t...
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Folk Trance
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Folk music has many associations, not all of them good, most of them bad. English folk music in particular has a reputation for being lumpy,...
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Sketch
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And here's a sketch that one Merlin Porter made of me while I was performing at Catweazle the other night. He finished it in about four...
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Facelift
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As you can see, over the last few days I've been giving this blog a bit of a facelift. Previously I was blogging music related posts ove...
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