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The next in my solo set. When Mark first came up with the idea of the ‘Songs of Apollo’s Children’ project, I found myself returning to the most momentous time in the history of mankind: Neil Armstrong taking his first step on the Moon. It was the 20th July 1969, and I was nine years [...]
They’ve been caught, flapping high on a tree in our garden for some months. One morning, after a blustery night of wind rattling the tiles and rain tapping the window like a band of agitated drummers, they appeared: witches’ knickers.
I remember that it was a foul night, with shapes and shadows buffeted angrily by [...]
While Arbelos are having a quiet time I thought I’d go through some of my songs and record some simple acoustic versions. Here’s the first, Fahrenheit 451, a song based on Ray Bradbury’s book.
Here are the words if you want to sing along.
The fireman paid a call today, he’d heard about [...]
Beethoven is dead, and has been for a while – but what a treat it must have been to be in the audience of the premiere of Symphony No.6, my favourite of his. Perhaps he was conducting – any Beethoven scholars perusing this? – and to hear it performed as the composer wanted would have [...]
Today is the shortest day of the year and it is also National Short Story Day. Here is my offering to the gods to ask for the sun to return. A little piece from a hopefully soon-to-be-completed Volume 2 of New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh. You can get it to read on your favourite [...]
“There’s a hush in the darkness.”
I wrote this song a couple of years ago for our Christmas concert in Dumfries. Hope you like it:
This was recorded with Mark Toner on guitar and harmony vocals and Jenny Johnson on piano, my learned colleagues of Arbelos.
When snow falls at night, There’s a hush [...]
It’s not one of Edinburgh’s most well known jobs, but in light of the funding cuts – thanks Mr Cameron – Edinburgh Council is dropping the post of Edinburgh Cannonball Collector. You’ve never heard of the job? - and for good reason: we don’t really want tourists to know that at 1 o’clock every day they [...]
This is my brief review of Christopher Priest’s newest book. It’s on Goodreads, I think, though I’m not sure. Which is probably a correct statement, considering the book.
The Islanders by Christopher Priest
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Edinburgh West Port Book Festival has started, and I’m looking forward especially to plug my self into a series of podcasts on Conan Doyle’s Edinburgh. As the site says:
“Owen Dudley Edwards takes us on a tour of Conan Doyle’s Edinburgh, taking us to some of the places which inspired Sherlock Holmes and his [...]
“Professor MacIntyre is Missing!” and other stories.New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh is available for Kindle from Amazon;
for Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch from the Apple iBookstore;
and from Smashwords in all formats.
Find out more about the tales here. . .
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