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    Gerry from Kilkee
    Kate Clarke
    • May 15
    • 2 min

    Gerry from Kilkee

    i understand now why everyone comes home from Ireland with stories. While I was with him and Maureen in Enniskillen, Joe Corrigan...
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    They're All Wild Seeds Now
    Kate Clarke
    • May 5
    • 2 min

    They're All Wild Seeds Now

    I'm taking to boat from Fishguard to Rosslare tomorrow. Crossing the same sea Terry crossed with his mum and dad when he was three or...
    63 views0 comments
    Sadness, Sinbad, Swiss Roll
    Kate Clarke
    • Apr 29
    • 1 min

    Sadness, Sinbad, Swiss Roll

    The trick is, I suppose, not to attribute your sadness to the wrong thing. I’m not sad because of you or us, or because of waiting, or...
    64 views0 comments
    Old Ladies At Bus Stops
    Kate Clarke
    • Apr 27
    • 2 min

    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...
    62 views0 comments
    No Deadly Nightshade
    Kate Clarke
    • Mar 25
    • 1 min

    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...
    69 views0 comments
    Heartache Spoken Here
    Kate Clarke
    • Mar 19
    • 1 min

    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...
    136 views0 comments
    Looking For Angels
    Kate Clarke
    • Mar 17
    • 1 min

    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...
    61 views0 comments
    Cowboy Man
    Kate Clarke
    • Mar 14
    • 2 min

    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...
    66 views0 comments
    St Valentine Drove a Red Continental
    Kate Clarke
    • Feb 13
    • 1 min

    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...
    47 views0 comments
    Music Wednesday
    Kate Clarke
    • Feb 11
    • 2 min

    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...
    38 views0 comments
    Moon Songs
    Kate Clarke
    • Jan 23
    • 1 min

    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....
    59 views0 comments
    Luke Wright
    Kate Clarke
    • Jan 19
    • 2 min

    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...
    26 views0 comments
    McIlroy
    Kate Clarke
    • Dec 30, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    61 views0 comments
    Mick Green - Archive
    Kate Clarke
    • Dec 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
    10 views0 comments
    Dunblane, The Alan Water, Tom Thumb Drops, Square Pies.
    Kate Clarke
    • Nov 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    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...
    37 views0 comments
    Do You Reckon Adam and Eve Did This?
    Kate Clarke
    • Nov 21, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
    102 views0 comments
    Out of Mind
    Kate Clarke
    • Oct 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    73 views0 comments
    Steve Gibbons, Tulane
    Kate Clarke
    • Sep 6, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    48 views0 comments
    Jimmy Webb On Elvis, the Sinatra/Webb Album We Almost Got to Hear and The Tyranny of Melisma
    Kate Clarke
    • Aug 19, 2021
    • 8 min

    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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    Gladiolus
    Kate Clarke
    • Aug 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
    46 views0 comments
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