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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Writing
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A bit quiet on the blogging front but I've not been idle. I've taken on a new load of teaching this semester - a module in 'Rese...
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What is a drug?
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My next appearance will be at the Wellcome Collection , on London's Euston Road, on Jan 20th 2011, speaking as part of a panel on the su...
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Brain secret history
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Still time to watch this - shows presenter Michael Mosely taking psilocybin in controlled experiment using a brain scanner, with surprising...
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