Steve Reich,Mike Sammes and Other Anomalies

[jazzy_dave]

The Mike Sammes Singers LP/CD "Music For Biscuits" is another triumph for the Trunk label. So too is "Bod Words Anbd Music" which i picked up cheaply from Borederline on Wednesday. Going round the net i have found an interesting biog on Mike Sammes from the SpaceAge Pop website.
http://www.spaceagepop.com/sammes.htm




The recent story of a mother's young toddler accidentally buying an old banger of a car for £9000 prompted me to checkout object-project,and apparently it is not the strangest story from the world of Ebay ,according to the Guardian.
http://object-project.livejournal.com/12539.html?mode=reply&style=mine.

Lots of things going on around Steve Reich and his 70th birthday party,including music and interviews on the radio and this piece from the Guardian.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1882815,00.html

He is one of my favourite minimalists musicmlly speaking and his career has been an essential part of 20th and 21st centurt classical composition.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1865820,00.html


Been a miserable day with the weather though.

At least achieved £50 of sales in the last 2 weeks after rent, from our stall meeting on Tuesday, with Stephen,Isobel,and Rowan - no sign of Ian and Mike but i left early anyway after one pint of expensive beer (Fullers ESB at five pence les than three quid!!).

Oh and talking of Rowan, ther is another LEOPARD LEG gig in Brighton next Monday. Haven't transferred the recording i made from the last gig to DVDR yet.