I'm not actually a Capricorn because astrology is a nonsense with which I will have no truck. If any clever geeky people know of a method of disabling that bit..........
Portsmouth Football Club
This is Pompey's ticker tape welcome at Wembley for the Cup semi-final:
and trying to get a grip...
Watching this guy is a recommended way to spend and hour or two as well.....
Have a look at the Love Hope Strength Myspace page(in my top friends) for more info on this gig in Kathmandu and the reasons behind it.
This one was a bit nearer home but I wasn't there either, unfortunately.
The people that I can't meet.
Roy Harper, Nick Harper, Richard Thompson, Scorched Earth, Paul The Girl, King Crimson, Shostakovich, Matt Churchill, Traffic, Stravinsky, Mary Jane, McCoy Tyner, Pavlov's Dog, Otway and his various partners over the years, Focus, Tim Buckley, Lisa Fitzgibbon, Thelonious Monk, Randy Newman, Jeff Buckley, Slade (yes, really!), Captain Beefheart, Van der Graaf Generator, Gavin Moore, Ozric Tentacles, The Ridgeway ;-), Miles Davis, Neil Young, Daevid Allen/Gong, The Rolling Stones, The Seekers, Peter Hammill, Joni Mitchell, Focus, Ry Cooder, Frank Zappa, Roland Kirk, Fred Neil, Schroeder Roadshow, Henry Cow, The Tubes, Harrold Juana, The Bevis Frond........................
Well that covers a bit of it....oh yeah, The Freak Zone on BBC6 Music at 17.00 on a Sunday is essential listening as well.
Best film in the whole wide world, ever? The Great Escape innit? I don't watch many but tend to like the Mike Leigh stuff...
This is from a party at fellow harpernaut Pete's house. It features Jont on guitar and Ed (from The Visitors) on pedal steel. A valiant effort holding up a wall by the bloke in the background!
Currently:
Red Dust by Ma Jian
Recently:Twelve by Nick McDonell, Chronicles by Bob Dylan, Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel by various, The Price of Darkness by Graham Hurley, The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, Asylum by Patrick McGrath, Earth Abides by George R Stewart, Victim by Saul Bellow Transformed by Linvoy Primus, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Deadlight by Graham Hurley, The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton, Snobs by Julian Fellows, Up Pompey by Chuck Culpepper (honestly!, One Under by Graham Hurley, Permissable Limits by Graham Hurley, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Tortilla Curtain by T Coraghessan Boyle, Finbar's Hotel by Dermot Bolger et al, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, To The Elephant Graveyard by Tarquin Hall, 21 by Adam Thorpe, When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, An Audience With An Elephant by Byron Rogers,
My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, Hello Land by Nick Walker, A Season With Verona by Tim Parks, Saturday by Ian McEwan, Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski, The English by Jeremy Paxman, Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa. Dr Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath, Any Human Heart by William Boyd, A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd, In Search Of The Craic by Colin Irwin, Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton, Blood & Honey by Graham Hurley.
Regularly: When Saturday Comes (The Half Decent Football Magazine), Mojo.
Some photos I took of Harpers senior and junior on tour in 2007:
The Luminary on the Bus: