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gnomeofzurich

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Battersea boy, left the smog shortly after we kicked the tories out. Didn't matter, replaced them with an even bigger one! Living by the Greifensee (the seizing lake)in the canton of Zurich with Yvonne, Billy and Tom. Do a bit of English teaching but spend more time dreaming about being the Swiss John Peel.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Neil Young, Billy Bragg, Ray Davies, Lucinda Williams, Tony Benn, John Pilger

My Blog

In Bruges

I don't know why I have only just got around to seeing this film. The title alone should have been enough to get me out the house. Bruges has a special place in the Neville family history, as it was t...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:33:00 GMT

Neil Young in Zurich August 2008

It doesn't get much better than this! While March's Chrome Dreams tour, which I was lucky enough to catch in London, showed us clearly the two sides of Neil, with the sets divided into acoustic and el...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:14:00 GMT

The wonderful world of the Felice Brothers

I call this music Front Porch Blues, I can hear folk and jazz and country, a little bit of soul, I hear Dylan, I hear the Band, I hear Randy Newman, I hear David Gray!, I hear the Pogues, and I hear t...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:15:00 GMT

Debris by Ronnie Lane (an appreciation)

It’s a mighty long way down rock ’n’ roll and sometimes when you look back you realise that you missed out on the greatness of a song at the time, maybe because you never really unde...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:51:00 GMT