Robert Leeming
@robertleeming
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Unimpressed Robert Mitchum watching Kate Bush perform Wuthering Heights @MrMutantes
Happy Birthday Robert Mitchum! Love you're performance as perplexed guest watching a stoned Kate Bush perform Wuthering Heights in 1978.
83 year old Bob Dylan, shirt unbuttoned to the navel, flanked by Tony Garnier and Jim Keltner, ripping a harmonica solo on "Shooting Star." You love to see it.
A little article I wrote recently about some of the goings-on in the local area: robertleeming.com/2023/07/21/fou… #barnsbury #islington
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Fountain fever in Barnsbury
Sometimes, if you look down into the mirky waters of a fountain you will see a carpet of coins. People throw them in and make a wish. So far, not a single coin has been thrown into a new fountain t…
The great Tony Bennett sings "Everybody Has The Blues." RIP, Tony.
I went to see #bobdylan the other night in London. Here’s what I thought: Don't look back: Seeing Bob Dylan at the London Palladium robertleeming.com/2022/11/03/don…
Five minutes with two famous water rats: robertleeming.com/2022/07/28/fiv…
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Five minutes with two famous water rats
In London – a city of some nine million people – I’ve always thought that it is strange that you can sometimes find yourself entirely alone in public. I felt this surprise recently while sitting in…
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? One (attempted) answer to a perennial question: robertleeming.com/2022/07/21/the…
Norma Waterson was a brilliant singer. I'm sad to hear that she has died. I always thought she worked wonders on this song: youtu.be/Ujxgtd5_kEQ
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St. Swithin's Day
I wrote a little article about some of the films that were made in Manchester. You can read it here: bit.ly/3HcDdu4
I wrote about Bice Lazzari: Modernist Pioneer, the new show @Estorick that is aiming to reclaim an unsung female Italian hero. It also features a small interview with the museum's director. The exhibition is open now and you can read the article here: bit.ly/3fF67XC
Fabulous picture of Upper St in the 60s
A few sentences on every Thomas Pynchon novel to date biblioklept.org/2021/05/08/a-f…
Futurism's founder F. T. Marinetti was initially (and perhaps inevitably) critical of Dante, but later came to consider 'The Divine Comedy' a masterpiece of Futurist simultaneity. ➡️ bit.ly/3sqMQOs #Dante700 #DanteDay #DanteDi
One of mine and @robertleeming favourite clips. Larry King's tribute show straight after Sinatra's death. youtu.be/xYDbE5MTBbs
Des O'Connor was a TV giant. My Twitter highlight was when he jumped into a conversation between me and @MrMutantes to plug a show he was doing with Jimmy Tarbuck.
Renée, From a Distance - An Introduction to Folly's fourth book: open.spotify.com/episode/7uHWJ7…
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