I've only just realised I have that book! Will it help to upload the relevant pages? It may be hard as I only have access to the forum on my phone. If you email me at jamesrattue@hotmail.com I can send them, that may be easier.

Late to the party as usual, but a bit of trivia: George Wright's picture of Polly is in the Evershot Village Hall, where she'd been playing since her teens. It's also on the cover of Louse Point : )

Thank you everyone, I'm pleased to have been able to provide you with something worthwhile. And thank you for the ways in which you contributed too. Bruise, I should have mentioned you by name! Share it far and wide and it might encourage more : )

Hell and High Water wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2026 10:40 pm I fixed the link in the original post, it seems to work now.

There's a lot of interesting stuff here, thank you!

Thank you yet again, and good!

There's something up with the site's certification, but if you type the address into your browser it will take you there. If it's completely inaccessible email me at jamesrattue@hotmail.com and I will send it to you : )

Friends - I finally managed to complete my survey or whatever you might choose to call it, of Is This Desire . You can have a look at it here: http://www.theweepingcross.co.uk , and click on the cover picture. You may have to type the address direct into a browser.

I had a mixture of motivations to ...

Not much more than a year since I began and I think the end of my Is This Desire? project is in sight, surprisingly.

What might you want to say about the album? Reactions, feelings, judgements, summaries? Everyone has slightly different ways of looking at things, and I'd be interested in knowing ...

Just wandering back in for the first time since the revolution. Looks very smart, well done! I had a lot of trouble logging back in, though. I don't know what I did to make it work, just kept trying. Anyway, back in now.

I think I've seen the Scotsman one and that's it - absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much!

Great, thank you : )

Thank you for sharing that, Romario (sorry I'm so late seeing it). I think all the people she knew at Island were gone. She has a great sense of personal loyalty but is also firm about her own interest, quite rightly.

Coming back here after a bit of an absence. Good evening Dr Gardner!

I'm six weeks younger than PJH and though I grew up on the opposite side of the county I know many of the places she has referenced over the years. St Catherine's Chapel, West Bay, St Peter's Eype where Let England Shake was ...

Hello everyone! Another ITD question. Does anyone have any reviews of the concerts from the 1998 tour? I know about:

Stephen Dalton's piece for the NME, 'Homecoming Queenie', from 15.8.1998, reviewing the Bridport Arts Centre;
Stevie Chick's for Melody Maker from 19.12.1998, reviewing the Shepherd ...

A question as my 'research' stumbles forward: Is it true, as far as anyone here knows, that The River was never performed during the ITD tour in 1998? I've only just spotted that and it rather surprises me. Of course some of the playlists are missing, but it would be very odd if all the performances ...

Only just seen this, Nightingale. Very helpful, thank you.