Adam Ball

A week late in my update but we had Naomi and Neil to visit last week and took a break from house hunting. Quite took a fancy to this little pied a terre – Castle Howard, north of York. Bit of a hike but worth it. They filmed Brideshead Revisited here, which I’m glad to say I’ve never seen.

 

 

 

Not earthshaking news but my favourite Irish artist Cathal Coughlan has just updated his website with some great news. “Foburg” – his first album since 2002′s The Sky’s Awful Blue – will be released on 21 September.

This is an evolution of the songs originally performed in the “narrative song cycle” (opera to you and me) Flannery’s Mounted Head, as part of Cork City of Culture. I missed it for whatever reason – lack of a Ryanair route from Humberside to Cork being the most likely one. Seems that FMH will be performed in Dublin in November so I have no excuse.

I’ll post a copy of the Gravel Road song from Spitz 2002 just as soon as I figure out how.

Adam 

 

Recursive pic test. If you hear feedback let me know!