Glad To Be Unhappy by Gary Cummiskey

Eva Jackson: 0105

Hot Chillis

Essential Music From A Shitty Year

Lloyd Gedye scans 2016’s musical landscape and, in between the grave-stones of David Bowie, Prince, Mandoza and Leonard Cohen, picks 21 albums that made the year just a little bit better.

Eye In The Sky by Gary Cummiskey

Victoria Williams: 0311

Advice on your third birthday:
I would sweetly bring him all the open and mostly full cans of alcohol I’d taken a sip of and not liked, and in return he would hold the can in his lap, lean back in his chair and squint, and tell me: You don’t get through life by never meaning anyone any harm. 

Bananas

The Meaning Of John Berger

"John Berger, who died on January 2, turned 90 in November last year. A Jar of Wild Flowers (Zed Books), a collection of essays written by his friends and artistic collaborators in celebration of Berger, and edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam and Amarjit Chandan, was published at the time — as a present to this singular poet, art critic, writer, filmmaker and humanist.  The Con publishes Chandan’s essay on The Meaning of Berger from the collection. The Long White Thread (Smokestack Books), a collection of poetry written for Berger, was also released at around that time."