I have just uploaded my David Bowie book to Amazon. It should be available online within a few hours, price $0.99 (or your currency equivalent). ♦ Oops! I’ve uploaded the wrong cover image to Amazon and I can’t change it until it’s been published. Above is the correct one! Answer this question and you could get … Continue reading
ROH and the Verfremdungseffekt “There’s something missing,” sang Kurt Streit as Jimmy McIntyre in the Royal Opera House presentation of Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the city of Mahagonny. He was right. What was missing was any acknowledgment of what differentiates this work from the run-of-the-mill productions we usually see on the … Continue reading
My Youtube video for International Women’s Day yesterday opened with Teddy Munro singing my song, Get Outta My Head, back in 1971. No particular application to International Women’s Day, apart from the fact that most of the musicians backing Teddy were women – unusual in those days. Still is, as a matter of fact. In … Continue reading
As Time Goes By A one-act exercise in literary criticism (SCENE: A Los Angeles bar.) (The BAR TENDER is wiping down the counter. Seated on a stool is THE MAN, dressed in a trench coat, unbelted, the collar up as if against the wind, a fedora hat on the counter in front of him beside … Continue reading
A brief review of this docu-drama is to be published in the Morning Star newspaper on Wednesday July 2 A fuller review and analysis of the issues raised can be read on the Political Review website. Continue reading
Countdown to Virtual Meeting Point May 6, 2014, 8pm GMT Preparatory work on my Youtube video stream is proceeding as I experiment with the various options. My hope is to run a weekly “Virtual Meeting Point” every Tuesday evening, target date May 6, 2014, under various headings: Culture (spelled Kulcher), covering music (probaby featuring a … Continue reading
But Bradford’s not showing it on the IMAX Screen. The nearest IMAX showing is at Birmingham Cineworld. Cineworld – Bradford Vicar Lane, Bradford Leisure Exchange, Bradford 11:25 14:30 17:30 20:30 Showcase Cinemas Leeds Birstall, Gelderd Road, Batley 21:55 Bradford showings are not IMAX Why Stalingrad should always be called Stalingrad In 1961 they renamed the city Volgograd because … Continue reading
A Memorial Service I have been mourning the dead of the Holocaust. A friend of mine who was sheltered from the SS by Belgians gave a very moving testimony. I was glad that the service sheet mentioned the gypsies and homosexuals and Communists who died alongside the Jews. I was glad that they mentioned Rwanda … Continue reading
I was inspired by Jeremy Clarkson’s BBC4 programme about the disastrous PQ17 convoy in July 1942 to add a new scene to my Stalin play, Barbarossa and the Latvian Gambit: BEGINNING OF EXCERPT Scene 1. The need for Anglo-American aid CAPTION May 6, 1942: Promised military supplies have failed to arrive. (Stalin at his desk. … Continue reading
Matthew 12, verses 1-16 [1] Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, [2] Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come … Continue reading
Karl Dallas Day 