Kate Clarke
Old Ladies At Bus Stops
I am being haunted by the old ladies at bus stops again. I'm sure these women are going about their business perfectly happily, but I...
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Kate Clarke
Mar 25, 20221 min read
No Deadly Nightshade
It is no accident that Shakespeare cast Romeo and Juliet as 13 or 14-year-olds. Separation is so heavily laced with grief when you are a...
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Kate Clarke
Mar 19, 20221 min read
Heartache Spoken Here
I realise we are a grain of sand on a speck of dust but I’m beginning to think that The Universe actually does care about us. Why else...
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Kate Clarke
Mar 17, 20221 min read
Looking For Angels
I know it should bring some comfort to the grieving that perhaps life really does flash before you when you die, but it makes me a little...
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Kate Clarke
Mar 14, 20222 min read
Cowboy Man
With his body bent strangely at knee and hip and with that twisting face turned ghostly under stage lights, Lyle Lovett makes me think of...
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Kate Clarke
Feb 13, 20221 min read
St Valentine Drove a Red Continental
Norman B from Life Elsewhere radio very kindly asked me to take part in his Valentine's Day show. He quizzed a panel of arty-types about...
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Kate Clarke
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Music Wednesday
I had those videos digitised The ones that sat in a slouching stack. “Yeah, I must get around to that," you said. Too late – they’re...
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Kate Clarke
Jan 23, 20221 min read
Moon Songs
Terry wrote more moon songs than anyone I know. He loved other people's moon songs too, particularly that heartbreaker from Jimmy Webb....
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Kate Clarke
Jan 19, 20222 min read
Luke Wright
Luke Wright is touring. Go and see him if you can - he's a smart, bright talent and while he's excellent at 40-something he'll be even...
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Kate Clarke
Dec 30, 20211 min read
McIlroy
There’s a photograph taken with a neighbour’s camera of you on McIlroy hill with your mother. Her curls blowing into her eyes, she’s...
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Kate Clarke
Dec 11, 20212 min read
Mick Green - Archive
Mick Green I'd forgotten I'd written this obituary - 11 January 2010 - for Mick Green. He was bloody great. For those of us who saw one...
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Kate Clarke
Nov 29, 20213 min read
Dunblane, The Alan Water, Tom Thumb Drops, Square Pies.
We used to go to Dunblane every year to see Terry's mum, Florrie. I'm fond of that little town. It has a soft character and charm about...
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Kate Clarke
Nov 21, 20212 min read
Do You Reckon Adam and Eve Did This?
I had a conversation with a guy today about that thing some men do. The ‘How can I present myself to this one in a way that would...
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Kate Clarke
Oct 9, 20211 min read
Out of Mind
I found an old leather pouch, shiny as a Prospect Park conker, with a stubborn, time-worn brass catch. It was tucked behind an attic beam...
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Kate Clarke
Sep 6, 20211 min read
Steve Gibbons, Tulane
Here's Steve Gibbons singing Tulane at The Robin, Bilston. I went to this gig for complicated reasons. Mainly because Steve was, for...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 19, 20218 min read
Jimmy Webb On Elvis, the Sinatra/Webb Album We Almost Got to Hear and The Tyranny of Melisma
An interview I did with Jimmy Webb some years ago. He was, as you would hope, a darling. Like Michelangelo’s bafflingly intricate flying...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 15, 20212 min read
Gladiolus
As soon as they came into season Terry would buy gladiolus - for me, for the house, for those audacious colours, but mostly because they...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 29, 20214 min read
Berkshire Beat, Terracotta Streets and River Songs
Here's an interview I did with Terry for the Reading Chronicle in May 2004, before we got together - a few days after we met, in fact....
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Kate Clarke
Jul 27, 20211 min read
Dowsing
I had a boyfriend once, who was one of those Led Zeppelin fans into cheesecloth shirts, the Solstice, castle ruins, standing stones....
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Kate Clarke
Jul 21, 20215 min read
Deke Leonard
Here's an interview I did in 2006 with Deke Leonard. I won't make a habit of posting my back-pages but I'm sharing this one because I...
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