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October 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ivor Cutler: Singing While Dead (ep)

Ivor Cutler Singing While Dead (ep) Hoorgi House The Scottish poet, humourist and eccentric-af creative Ivor Cutler had a music career too. He turned up on Rock Bottom which is no mean feat – and Robert Wyatt signed him up. Cutler would accompany himself reading stories and poems and then move into a haunting version […]
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January 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Spike Milligan: Man of Letters

Man of Letters Spike Milligan Viking Books Collected up by his former agent Norma Francis, here’s Spike Milligan’s letters – or some of them anyway, clearly he wrote thousands. This volume takes from two earlier attempts to compile his letters for public consumption and adds many more that are previously unpublished. Obviously there are many […]
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