Much fun had, Saturday night last, when I was Dj-ing at How Does It Feel To Be Loved.<\/p>\n
Here’s what I played. With a few added YouTube links.<\/p>\n
Kiss And Make Up – Saint Etienne<\/a> (single version with Donna Savage) Simon K met me there, my old friend from the Bristol Era (1990-3), last seen in Amsterdam when I played there with Spearmint, 1999 or 2000. In Bristol we used to go to indie clubs that played HDIF style music – a lot of the same songs \u00c2\u00a0in fact – so it made sense for us to meet there. He even danced. Great to see him again.<\/p>\n Also met with Ella L and her friend Rob. After 1am or so Ella – who lives near me – called a licensed cab. Impressively, she used an iPhone app to contact the taxi company Addison Lee, typed in the destination, and got us a quoted fee then and there. Much more civilised than a night bus. Every penny I’ve spent on taxis has always been worth it.<\/p>\n Monday classes: 16th century poetry (Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare) followed by 20th century literary theory (Barthes). The lecturer on Roland Barthes compared him to David Bowie, in terms of his frequent re-invention. Still feeling wary about the literary theory side of an English degree, but it’s all a good work-out for the brain.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Still wasting a lot of time on silly things. Today I heard the announcer on Radio 3’s Composer Of The Week<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0imply that Paul Bowles was married to Carson McCullers. I’m ashamed to admit I waited until the show was on the BBC’s Listen Again iPlayer so I could check what he said:<\/p>\n “Britten and Pears spent some time in New York, where they opted to take a flat with W.H. Auden and his American lover Chester Kallman in Brooklyn Heights. It was a bohemian, arty, communal arrangement and this very fluid and remarkable menage<\/em> included the writers Paul Bowles and his wife Carson McCullers…”<\/p>\n Ms McCullers was indeed one of the tenants, but Bowles’s wife was – obviously – \u00c2\u00a0the writer\u00c2\u00a0Jane<\/em> Bowles. All three of them shared the house with Auden, Britten et al, albeit not for very long. It’s all in the fascinating book February House<\/em>, as reviewed here.<\/a><\/p>\n It was only a minor error in a programme that was really about Britten, though. I think I need to just let these things go.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n A \u00c2\u00a0message on Twitter:<\/p>\n “Thank you for replying! I’m from Argentina. Never had the chance to listen to Orlando but loved you in interviews. ;)”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Much fun had, Saturday night last, when I was Dj-ing at How Does It Feel To Be Loved. Here’s what I played. With a few added YouTube links. Kiss And Make Up – Saint Etienne (single version with Donna Savage) Initials BB – Serge Gainsbourg Lo Boob Oscillator \u00c2\u00a0– Stereolab\u00c2\u00a0(cutting off the coda) Sister I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[368,433,432],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hdif","tag-joining-the-green-ink-brigade","tag-shouting-at-the-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nInitials BB – Serge Gainsbourg<\/a>
\nLo Boob Oscillator \u00c2\u00a0– Stereolab<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(cutting off the coda)
\n<\/a>Sister I’m A Poet – Morrissey
\nHeavenly Pop Hit – The Chills
\nI Feel The Earth Move – Carole King
\nSubstitute – The Who
\nTainted Love – Gloria Jones
\nSweeping The Nation – Spearmint
\nPing Pong – Stereolab (a request)
\nGive Me Just A Little More Time – Chairmen Of The Board
\nWomen’s Realm – Belle And Sebastian
\nPlan B – Dexys Midnight Runners
\nDoing It Right – The Go Team
\nStoned Love – The Supremes
\nAsk – The Smiths
\nFrench Navy – Camera Obscura
\nGive Him A Great Big Kiss – Shangri-Las
\nThese Boots Are Made For Walking – Nancy Sinatra
\nPoor Old Soul – Orange Juice
\nYou Get What You Deserve – The Siddeleys<\/a>
\nOblivious – Aztec Camera
\nRoadrunner – Modern Lovers
\nDreaming – Blondie
\nMy Boyfriend’s Back – The Angels
\nCarbrain – The Wake
\n<\/a>Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0– Felt (album version)
\nNothing To Be Done – Pastels <\/a>(love Stephen Pastel’s audible sniff at the beginning)
\nSpinning Wheel – Shirley Bassey
\nRaspberry Beret – Prince
\nThinking Of You – Sister Sledge\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n