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Lyrics for ‘Something About Dreams and Eating Out’
Don’t call me England, I just came to hide with you I’m tired of haunting you A sleeping driver hides behind his steering wheel Up on the hill, After the radio There’s nothing-really-nothing to turn off Don’t know what to feel, After the radio There’s nothing just the silence all around You’d call me Heracles…
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“My big hairy football arms” – Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall, 11th December 2025
You were born to break my big hairy football arms Like clean windows kill the birds I wasn’t expecting to go and see Cameron Winter in New York. I’d had a ticket for his London show two weeks ago but couldn’t make it. Leana and I had spent an indulgent happy hour at a dive…
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Aldershot
Tell nobody, and neither will I Stop drinking there, and I will too Ask me to show you, and I would try Turn in for the night, and I will lie. Pray for her, and so will I Sit in stillness, watch the sky Wait for me at the station, as I wait for you…
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Jack Merrett – Interview
“‘Cause I’m a little boy full of jellies and cherries And I’ve got to save the world And one more thing And one more thing” (1) Famous are a band that have long since been in flux, a band with a shifting line-up, save the ever-present Jack Merrett. Their movement has come to an end…
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Digital Pointillism
Cuttlefish skin patterning between art, science, and animal communications During my final year at Cambridge, I wrote my dissertation on cuttlefish camouflage. The final part of this project focused on how we can use the principles of pointillist painting to better conceptualise the displays of these intelligent cephalopods. Cuttlefish are particularly promising candidates for researching…
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Katrina Law
Katrina Law is the name that me and my friend Alfie Cason make music under. Of the songs we have written and performed, we released three live recordings from our show at the Portland Arms, Cambridge on February 9th, 2025. The artwork was produced by Josh Shortman on lino. The tracks are available on all…
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Ask Me No Questions, Bridget St John (1969)
“Close your eyes, my love” Born in 1946, Bridget St John is best known for three studio albums released between 1969 and 1972. Of the three, Ask Me No Questions is most renowned, and most instrumentally restrained. Its songs mostly feature St John’s low and mellow voice accompanied by fingerstyle guitar played by St John herself and…
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Blue Car, Joanne Robertson (2023)
Blue Car is the most recent album from Glasgow-based painter, poet and musician Joanne Robertson. Its eleven songs are a selection of unreleased work over the last decade. In each song Robertson sets out to capture the emotional poignancy of a single moment. Blue Car is full of empty space, distant voices and rough, beautifully…
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