Irish Fairies in New Hampshire August 29, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : ModernAbout ten days ago Beachcombing put up a post celebrating funny fairy stories, a way, he noted, ‘to kill the fairies with kindness’. Since then he has come across a further fairy story from the other side of the Atlantic. As he is particularly interested in American fairies at the moment – a long and […]
Dear Lord and Father: Songs Against Songs November 29, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
Music is strangely resistant to bizzarism. Certainly, after years of reading Beachcombing has only about five pages of scribbled notes on music in an exercise book and most of those about rock, pop and other post-war perversions. Did Mozart, Purcell, Bach and the rest never get up to anything peculiar? It does not seem possible and yet their […]
