LEATHER HEART:
Catch an early train in through the Emerald City
& out to the Edge. A day away from rehearsals walking
streets of the forgotten East. Terraced chapels,
wheely bins with numbers flaking, snooker halls,
scrap metal dealers, hand painted signs, hair dressers,
street names the resting place of Empire, pebble-dashed
double glazed outsider art. We’ll count ponies grazing
in the lee of power stations, stroll to the river,
mud stones, rusting chevrons, dinosaur timbres sinking under
the weight of history where new faces arrived with expressions
of hope, fuelled on the promise of work & betterment &
future Australians left in search of paradise.
Setting off to the sounds of ‘Mean Machine Chant’
by The Last Poets (I’m talking about the original band at the
roots of rap from the 1970’s), one more great track from the
brilliant Celluloid Records Compilation we’re featuring this
week. Keep out’ve that chill wind.
(K)
Karl Hyde 
one lost glove
and you ain’t got a mate
had them 8 years
lost one last week
i love gloves
i get cold hands easy
i want my gloves, the pair i had
and now….nobody has them for sale
after single digit temps
temps de froid…
and one glove.
Ok…I was in a meeting when I opened this one..and it freaked me out…wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at, at first glance…needless to say, I needed the question being asked of me repeated….nice one!
Off to Iceland on 5th March Karl to super jeep tour the South shore, Eyjafjalajokul volcano and search for the Aurora. It’s solar maximum – the lights will be dancing for us.
Excited, to be at the heart of the planets nursery, drawing out the last inch of the Winter in the most natural place of all and will arrive home to the ermergence of Spring a beautiful time of year.
Feeling a soothing, warm adrenaline rush – 2013 feels like a good year!