Episode 4: Alasdair's Lyrics

This week on The Clientele Podcast, Robin Allender talks to singer and guitarist Alasdair MacLean about his lyrics and literary influences. They discuss Alasdair's brilliant collection of lyrics, Exhaust Fumes, Magnolias and Light, and the spoken word Clientele songs ‘Losing Haringey’, ‘The Green Man’ and ‘The Museum of Fog’.

In the episode, Alasdair mentions The Clientele beer, which is called Conjuring Summer In and is brewed by Ocelot Brewing Company:

http://ocelotbrewing.com/

P. S. Someone on Twitter jokingly asked for a reading list for a previous episode so I thought I’d make a note of all the books mentioned in this episode!

Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet

Gradiva, Wilhelm Jensen

Ulysses, James Joyce

The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot

Exhaust Fumes, Magnolias and Light, Alasdair MacLean

‘Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge’, Jorge Luis Borges

The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper

The Owl Service, Alan Garner

Astercote, Penelope Lively

The Mabinogion

The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Good Apprentice, Iris Murdoch

Red Shift, Alan Garner

Create Dangerously, Albert Camus

‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’, Jorge Luis Borges

Scarp, Nick Papadimitrou

‘Axolotl’, Julio Cortazar

The Dedalus Book of Surrealism: The Identity of Things

The Hand of Fatima, Georges Limbour

Nadja, André Breton

Paris Peasant, Louis Aragon

Last Nights of Paris, Philippe Soupault

‘Free Union’, André Breton

A Cornish Childhood, A. L. Rowse

The poetry of Joë Bousquet, Robert Desnos and Paul Éluard

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