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Pete Atkin / Gigs / Re: The Pheasantry: Autumn appearance |
01.09.26 at 04:08 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by Noam Greenberg |
| Sharing the excitement, at the far end of Earth. It's great to hear that Pete is better. How fortunate indeed to have planned a London family reunion to coincide with the gig. It's been too long since we last saw Pete in concert (that would have been in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, with Amos in a front pack). Eagerly looking forward to it --- |
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Pete Atkin / Words / Re: The Observer TV Review column |
27.08.26 at 20:02 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by S J Birkill |
Stephen -- great to hear from you again and heartened to learn you're still on the case!
You are in fact the first person ever to respond positively to my plea for missing print copies of Clive's column, and I would be quite delighted to receive the ones you've discovered. You have my email address, but I'm sending you my street address 'under separate cover' - MV 'Personal Message'.
Looking forward to integrating these with the 'Archive'.
Steve |
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Pete Atkin / News / Re: Durham Folk Festival |
22.08.26 at 17:18 |
| Started by Alan | Newest post by Alan |
Thanks Steve and Jonny.
Sorry it took me a while to get back- thought i ticked for email notifications, but I mustn't have.
I really hope to get to the performance.
Alan. |
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Pete Atkin / News / Re: It was thirty years ago today... |
26.07.26 at 21:02 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by Avner Greenberg |
That is some anniversary Steve! I wonder if you envisaged back then how your extraordinary start-up would flower into such a superb project that has enriched so many of our lives and spurred Pete to make his blessed come back.
Unlike the Thirty Year Man's audience, we are (almost) ALL still listening and appreciating our amazing good luck at having the website and the forum, and Pete's songs.
Thank you for your so generous and indefatigable endeavour! |
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Pete Atkin / Words / The Light As it Grows Dark: The Last Poems of Clive J |
21.07.26 at 02:16 |
| Started by Revelator | Newest post by Revelator |
This October we can look forward to a "new" book by Clive:
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/clive-james/the-light-as-it-grows-dark/9781037406478
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Grows-Dark-Poems-Clive/dp/1037406478
Publisher's blurb:
Beautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one of Australia’s finest writers.
To be a long time dying is largely a phenomenon of modern medicine. The Light As It Grows Dark is reportage from this new country; hard-won revelations about the journey’s end: ‘This insane last phase/ When everything about you goes downhill.’
A poet long before he was a journalist or broadcaster, Clive James was 70 when his health irretrievably broke down, and his world contracted to a single book-lined room looking out on a small walled garden. Every detail in this restricted orbit seemed to be filled with meaning, and he found that once again poems began, unstoppably, to flow.
Admitting fear and resisting self-pity, he meditated on the nature of life when its end is in view. ‘The light as it grows dark has come for you / to comfort you . . . Your life has turned to look you in the face.’
A capstone to James’s extraordinary career, The Light As It Grows Dark is a wry, tender, unsentimental companion for all those who will find themselves, at some point, towards the end of their lives, which is to say for all of us.
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I don't know how many of the poems in the book are uncollected, but it's good to see a "new" book from Clive, and perhaps this means a book of his uncollected essays might be in the works too... |
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Pete Atkin / Newsletter / Newsletter, 10th June 2026 |
11.06.26 at 22:07 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by S J Birkill |
The latest edition of Pete's email newsletter is now available for all to read on the Newsletter Archive Page.
Read all about the Broken Arm. Pete relates the incident in unprecedented depth, including slow-motion action replays, witness interviews, osteometric radiology slides and analysis of the possibly subtle but long-lasting affective modulations in certain susceptible audience members associated with the simplified harmonic structure inherent in the can't-play-bar-chords arrangements of his more emotive ballads. He also riffs on the enhanced resilience of the cellulose/lignin matrix structure in 120-year-old English elm, ulmus procera, following chronic exposure to an atmosphere saturated with the vapours of ethanol and nicotinia tabacum.
Or none of the above.
But don't click the link in panic! The guitar survived, the fracture is mending, and Pete hopes to have the cast removed within the fortnight. He will play again!
Steve
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Pete Atkin / Chums / Footlights Video : Turn It On! |
11.06.26 at 07:39 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by S J Birkill |
Did you enjoy the script? Here now is the complete show, the 1968 revue in its 'touring' version, as broadcast by
the BBC from the bijou Robin Hood Theatre, Averham, Notts. Please note this item is not for public consumption --
I've reserved it for Midnight Voices members. Check that you are logged in to the Forum, then follow THIS LINK.
So many of that young cast didn't make it this far: vale Rob Buckman, Alan Sizer, Jonathan James-Moore, Clive James.
SJB |
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Pete Atkin / Members / Re: Julian Mount's Songs.... |
29.05.26 at 15:04 |
| Started by JtJ | Newest post by JtJ |
Hi there!
In 1973, Julian Mount (that's me) privately released a vinyl album of his original songs called “Unsung Lies”. Now in 2026, the album is re-released on the Seelie Court/Good Times record label worldwide! The CD is available from 29 May 2026. The vinyl version will follow on 26 June. The CD contains FOUR bonus tracks…this is one of them (an update to the first track on the original album “My Friend”).
#JulianMount #JulianMountMusic
https://youtu.be/bLoUHsYUNc8
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