Episode 4: Alasdair's Lyrics
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08/21/23 • 72 min
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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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
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 3: Mark Keen
This week on The Clientele Podcast, Robin Allender talks to the band's drummer Mark Keen. Mark talks about joining The Clientele, playing live, and how his drumming complements the band's delicate sound. He also talks about his beautiful piano compositions, including the Lyra pieces on Music for the Age of Miracles and the Radial pieces on I Am Not There Anymore.
Mark has an extraordinary story about the song 'Conjuring Summer In' and this episode ends with his original demo of the song.
'Another summer's night', Anwen Crawford's review of Music for the Age of Miracles:
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2017/october/1506780000/anwen-crawford/another-summer-s-night#mtr
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