Harry's Place Arts

When I started out playing in bands in the late 1980s, getting into a recording studio was a grand ambition. My first band used to record our ‘demos’ on a stereo hifi tape deck, which necessitated getting a good live mix and a mistake-free performance (just like they did in the 1950s). We dreamed of [...]

Well, I’ve been giving Dylan’s Saved album a few spins. My impression so far is that it seems more rushed that Slow Train Coming. It has much the same production team – Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett of Muscle Shoals – and Tim Drummond is retained on bass. The Dire Straits pair of Mark Knopfler [...]

Okay, before I start I’d better come clean. I’m a huge Dylan fan. I have every single one of his albums including that rare out-of-print one never released on CD. I also like Self Portrait. I think that “All The Wild Horses” is just wonderful, and the “The Boxer” is a cereal-through-nose snorting pleasure. While [...]

This is a cross post from Bloke and Coke I’m going to say something that would see me cast out of every post-work media boozer in London. That would get me laughed at by people whose sole existence seems to consist of looking at Chuck Norris videos on YouTube and saying ‘amazing’ a lot. I [...]

I recently got my hands on a copy of the DTS-Audio version of Frank Zappa’s 1978 Halloween concert in 5.1 surround sound… very cheaply, I’m happy to say, at the Brighton Record Faire a fortnight ago. It compensated for the fact that one album I bought (ok, it was in a 50p bargain box) didn’t actually have [...]

This is guest post by goolgemania Google’s crop circle gif has not only appeared in the Pacific, but is now also on the UK’s standard page. Google has put up a special “crop circle” logo in some Pacific region countries. Google Japan, China,Taiwan, Korea, and Australia all have up the special logo today, September 15th, which features a UFO [...]

A guest post by de Bentvueghels Episode Three can be seen here “It may be that in the distance a fish describes an arc of three or four feet in the air, and there is one bright flash where it emerges, and another where it strikes the water; sometimes the whole silvery arc is revealed; [...]

This is a guest post by de Bentvueghels (Previous episode here) “The decisive turning in the evolution of French painting that Greuze represents is epitomized by his relationship to Chardin. On the one hand, Greuze was unquestionably the chief continuator in his generation of the absorptive essence of Chardin’s art. On the other, the sentimentalism, emotionalism, [...]

This is a guest post by Bloke and Coke It’s 23 years since the Housemartins first released their album, London 0 Hull 4. And to celebrate this, er, pivotal anniversary, the record has been re-released complete with bonus thingies and unreleased whatsits. This is a good thing. As a record it’s faultless, a landmark example [...]