The MV RSS newsfeed, delivering the 20 hottest threads on the Midnight Voices (Pete Atkin and Clive James) Web Forumen-gb http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi We were all a bit miffed at The Word magazine's airbrushing of Pete in favour of the co-author of 'You're Beautiful', but perhaps we did the journal an injustice. As Pete intimated some time ago, the new edition, just out, includes a track from Midnight Voices ('Thief in the Night') on its free CD. ... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1210364418;start=0#0http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1210364418;start=0#009 May 2008 21:20:18NewsMike Walters Sadly, for my musical appreciation and no slight against the city, I shall be in Brimingham on Monday - West Midlands you understand, not Alabama! | I hope its a wonderful evening and I shall be there in spirit. | All the best to all | Ian | Well, I was born in Birmingham (UK) and my daughter lives... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1203077619;start=16#16http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1203077619;start=16#1609 May 2008 13:50:30GigsBogusTrumper Earlier today Clive was on Radio 2 with Mark Radcliffe & Sally Lindsay (sitting in for Steve Wright - Mark and Sally that is..... ). Talking about this and that including his association with Pete, lyric writing, singing and plugging the new album, from which Laughing Boy was played. He packed a... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1210189063;start=0#0http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1210189063;start=0#007 May 2008 20:37:43NewsCary I am glad you liked it. :)http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Music;action=display;num=1206373497;start=15#15http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Music;action=display;num=1206373497;start=15#1506 May 2008 23:29:16MusicBogusTrumper See you on May 12 for Pete's gig, folks - in the meantime, may I remind you about the gig that I am doing this Thursday May 8 at the Polish Centre that's known as POSK (in the Jazz Cafe there) 238-246, King St, Hammersmith at 7.30pm. | The concert is being presented by the Giles Hart Solidarity Memo... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1168421378;start=43#43http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1168421378;start=43#4306 May 2008 21:26:27Off Topicnaomi You're not the only one, Richard. Apart from the 'Urban Hermit' bit (and my relative absence of shame!) your post fits my situation precisely. I'm constantly surprised at Clive's familiarity with current popular culture (and not-so-current: I only had the faintest impression of ever having heard the... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1209331689;start=6#6http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1209331689;start=6#606 May 2008 12:28:50WordsS J Birkill The photographer Fay Godwin, who died in May 2005 and whose obituary was published in The Guardian on the 31 st of May of that year, is probably best known for her pictures of the British landscape , but her photos of literary figures such Clive James, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin show that she ... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1210021080;start=0#0http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1210021080;start=0#005 May 2008 21:58:00Off TopicKevin Cryan But there were several songs on The Lakeside Sessions which were written as from a female POV, where I don't think I ever had to change more than the odd personal pronoun, and sometimes not even that. However, the attitude might have been a giveaway here or there. But then again, since no one ev... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1209315427;start=1#1http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1209315427;start=1#127 Apr 2008 20:54:48WordsRichard Bleksley Pick of the paperbacks | Telegraph 26/04/2008 | Cultural Amnesia by Clive James | Clive James's alphabetical tour of his lifetime's reading and thinking is startling in its breadth: Einstein rubs up with Duke Ellington and Beatrix Potter with Proust, Thomas Mann with the film director Michael Mann.... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1172831592;start=174#174http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1172831592;start=174#17427 Apr 2008 14:08:16WordsKevin Cryan Clive seems to have won too (though this isn't mentioned on the Orwell Prize site). The Guardian has: | Well done to both of them! | Simon | Actually, it is mentioned. It's just that the the special award was posted after I'd stopped monitoring the site. | Special Awards | 2008 | Clive James was a... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1206612427;start=5#5http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1206612427;start=5#525 Apr 2008 19:17:12WordsKevin Cryan The fine is approximately 32.00 so more than 10 needed from the bank aswell - incidentally, was it raining?http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1208689909;start=3#3http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1208689909;start=3#321 Apr 2008 09:14:34WordsIan Ashleigh Nobody's mentioned this one, so here goes: | 'Q' magazine, May 2008 | Pete Atkin - Midnight Voices - Hillside Music - *** | TV's Clive James has his '70s songs reworked. Really. | Before finding fame as a TV presenter, author and critic, Clive James spent the early '70s co-writing the lyrics on six ... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Music;action=display;num=1182638114;start=100#100http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Music;action=display;num=1182638114;start=100#10017 Apr 2008 18:32:56MusicS J Birkill "My Life in Lyrics" was The Guardian 's title for this piece from Clive James, published on Tuesday April 1st in g2 , the arts and media section of the paper. Clive has made the original unedited text of his article available to us. Read it here . | Steve | Thanks Steve (and Clive, obviously) - fas... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1207771615;start=1#1http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1207771615;start=1#110 Apr 2008 09:04:39WordsRob Spence One thing I noticed at Wavendon was the number of people in the audience who knew the songs well. There was very little reaction to the jokes in the songs, usually a dead giveaway. | Were there a lot of Voices there who are just lurking and not posting? I'd be interested to know. Or perhaps there ar... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1200321674;start=43#43http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1200321674;start=43#4309 Apr 2008 17:38:57GigsJan FWIW, Danny F lives in Pinner and I seehim from time to time at the tube station. He is also Deputy Editor of the Jewish Chronicle and I occasionally have conversations with him as he is a good friend of Harrow Relay For Life organised by my wife and I each September for Cancer Research UK. | Lesliehttp://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1205683084;start=19#19http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1205683084;start=19#1904 Apr 2008 08:09:44NewsLeslie Moss Has anyone mentioned that Clive James has TWO CDs out tomorrow (April 4)? Both are audiobooks released by Macmillan Digital Audio. One features Clive reading from Cultural Amnesia (presumably not the whole book!) while the second is called Poems from The Book of My Enemy - Collected Verse 1958-2003.... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1207252011;start=0#0http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1207252011;start=0#003 Apr 2008 20:46:50WordsTiny_Montgomery will deffo get Midnight Voices when it's back in stock. | Hiya anniola! | Good to hear your voice on the Forum so soon after joining. Just a suggestion: rather than wait for amazoon, why don't you place an order direct with Pete at Hillside Music ? That way you'll get it sooner, and you could reque... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=members;action=display;num=1120416491;start=24#24http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=members;action=display;num=1120416491;start=24#2402 Apr 2008 20:01:37MembersS J Birkill Stay tuned! | SJBhttp://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Music;action=display;num=1204122898;start=2#2http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Music;action=display;num=1204122898;start=2#202 Apr 2008 19:06:17MusicS J Birkill Hmm. I see now from his Wikipedia entry that Pete wasn't born in Hackney, as I suggested in my blog post, but Cambridge. As I said, I'm prone to making things up when the fancy takes me and that just proves it. | Perhaps I was confusing him with Julie Covington. | Oh - and one other thing I've disco... [continues]http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1207124748;start=8#8http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1207124748;start=8#802 Apr 2008 17:24:53NewsBob Kingsley How dare he! | But here's a quest (not that I have an answer) : is there any 'prior art' (i.e. pre Secret Drinker ) out there? Perhaps some illustrious illustrator from the early 20th Century, a work well known to everyone but me? | Stevehttp://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1207150265;start=1#1http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1207150265;start=1#102 Apr 2008 16:57:41Off TopicS J Birkill