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Curtain Call Envy I was wondering about curtain-call envy. Went with my folks and brother to see “Anything Goes” on Drury Lane last...

Coming back from the Isle of Wight, I listened to my iPod and heard in quick succession three tracks that have enormous significance in...

I’ve got the whole summer booked filming a couple of property shows all along the South Coast of the UK. So spent the last two weeks in...

Went with Gary to the Barbican to see Robert Wilson/Tom Waits/William Burrough’s The Black Rider. So I was a little apprehensive about...

Alan Watts’ smoke-kippered and throaty laugh: & the perfect translation of nirvana – which means ‘blowing out’ at Sanskrit root – is not...

BRASILIEROS Once I started listening there’s a whole cascade of greats: it’s like discovering a whole parallel history of music in a...

Sara and I went to Aldeburgh for the day and saw a great exhibit in an abandoned RAF hangar by Kathrine Sandys and then some interesting...

I’ve finally managed to record one of the classes I teach in Kensal Rise, should anyone be interested. I’ll be archiving all the four...

It’s been four years since I drank ayahuasca. When I arrived back in Brazil this November to drink again, I met a handful of people who...

So as the long British winter slowly thaws to a slushy close, it’s time to think about that major spring clean or – to give it a slightly...

So i’m flying up the East coast railway up to Penrith and pondering the iPad. It’s already proved itself for early morning perusal of the...

I’m not sure who Bre Pettis is – but I like his style. Since I came back from Zimbabwe – where people think little and do lots – I’ve...

many thanks to Alina for the beautiful pictures.

Preparing for the Radio Breakfast show this weekend, I’ve locked myself in my office, resisting the blandishments of Christmas shopping...

Stockhausen would have been 80 today so I’m at the Albert Hall to hear Punkte at the Proms.