Kate Clarke
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, 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...
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Kate Clarke
- Nov 30, 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...
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Kate Clarke
- Nov 22, 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Kate Clarke
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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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Kate Clarke
- Jul 18, 2021
- 2 min
Tiresome, Posturing Pricks
I have finished reading everything in Terry's 'immediate stack' of books - the one that sits at the edge of the dining room table, that...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 25, 2021
- 1 min
Ninety Percent
I guess all parents know this, but I had no idea, that most of life’s enjoyment comes from watching someone else’s; Laughing at some...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 24, 2021
- 3 min
Steve Gibbons
There's a petition going around to get Steve Gibbons a star on the Birmingham Walk of Fame. While they are at it can someone get him a...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 20, 2021
- 5 min
Rome, Johnny Mercer, Johnnie Ray
An archive Terry Clarke Interview from an Italian publication, Late For The Sky by Fabrizio Pezzoli, after a tour of Italy. (April 2001)...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 16, 2021
- 4 min
Green Voodoo
Notes on the songs, by Terry Clarke October, November 2001 ... Merel Bregante & Sarah Pierce Cribworks Digital Audio studio in the Shoal...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 16, 2021
- 2 min
The New Van Casts His Spell
Review by Nick Dalton, Daily Express, 2002 Terry Clarke is the new Van Morrison. He's a man who starts with the basics of Irish music and...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 8, 2021
- 1 min
Early Days
Here's an early interview with Terry, before his first album, Call Up a Hurricane, was released. The piece was written by David...
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Kate Clarke
- May 15, 2021
- 2 min
Arrest This Moment
I'm reading that book about Michael Marra that I bought for you but you hadn't yet read. 'From Kate, Easter 2018' - you always wrote the...
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Kate Clarke
- May 9, 2021
- 3 min
Mario Ferlito
Terry wrote this piece for his website in 2006 about Mario Ferlito: The song Mario Ferlito was written shortly after my wife and I moved...
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