Congratulations to Spain – champions of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (to give the tournament it’s full name). I started off by supporting Holland but after 10 minutes of watching Spain try to play football and Holland try to stop them by fair means or foul I switched my allegiances to Spain. I’ll give [...]
You wait all your life for the Galician song Black Shadow / Negra Sombra and blow me, two come along at once. I have just four CDs of Galician music, the Carlos Nunez, two by Susana Seivane and this one by Milladoiro, and Black Shadow / Negra Sombra is on two of them. Milladoiro’s version [...]
This week’s colour is black and we have more Ry Cooder. This time Ry is playing guitar on the Carlos Núñez album Brotherhood of Stars. Carlos Núñez, as I’m sure you know is a Galician piper who has collaborated with many top Celtic musicians, most notably The Chieftains. (Indeed, The Chieftains feature on a couple [...]
We watched “Couscous”, aka “La Graine et le Mulet” and “The Secret of the Grain”, last night. It got very good reviews in the Observer and Guardian and so we were looking forward to seeing it. It was, in many ways a marvellous film, with lots of extended set pieces allowing the audience to absorb [...]