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Latitude Festival 2009: Jeffrey Lewis’ Acoustic Set

Here's the wonderful Jeffrey Lewis performing at the Latitude Festival's Poetry Arena in the wee small hours of 19th July 2009. Review to follow. Low-Budget Detective Film: Whistle Past The Graveyard: Birthday Party Song: There's more where this came from.

Latitude Scrapbook: Datarock

Sounding like Talking Heads and looking like Devo-with-ASBOs, they are the mighty Datarock. I wrote about their Latitude Festival set in a previous post, and here's some footage of it that I took with my nifty Kodak z6i pocket camcorder. The migraine-inducing, shaky-cam effect isn't some intentional stylistic embellishment aimed at recapturing the frenetic energy of the live music experience. Rather, it was a direct result of my five year-old stepdaughter Lily sitting on my shoulders while dancing.

20th July 1969

As this is the 40th anniversary of what remains - in my opinion, at least - our species' finest achievement, I'd just like to quote something that Apollo 11 astronaut Ed Mitchell said in the wonderful documentary film, In The Shadow of The Moon. I find it particularly moving: The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window, every two minutes: The Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and the whole 360-degree panorama of the heavens. And that was a powerful, overwhelming experience. And suddenly I realized that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of the [...]

Latitude Festival 2009: Peter and Ben

I've since found on YouTube the short film about a sheep that I was so dismissive towards it in my last post. The film is called Peter and Ben and it's directed by Pinny Grylls. It's quite sweet and I feel rather guilty now. Clare and Lily will certainly like it - and maybe Baby Edie will, too. They'd much prefer a short film about a sheep to a groundbreaking graphic novel.

Latitude Festival 2009: Lily’s Latitude

My 5 year old stepdaughter's thoughts on Latitude 2009.

Latitude Scrapbook: Thom Yorke/Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard

During Thom Yorke's rare solo performance on Sunday afternoon at the Latitude Festival's Obelisk Arena, some misanthropic wag in the crowd said loudly: "I wish they'd put the big screens on so we can see how bad his hair looks." I'm happy to say it wasn't me. I had mixed feelings about seeing Thom Yorke at Latitude, but it had nothing to do with the state of his hair or even the redundant 'h' in his forename. It had been twelve years since I'd seen Radiohead for the first - and, as it turned out, the last - time. That [...]

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