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Jake Thackray biographer. Performs with his guitar. Produced Jake Thackray Project’s Lost Archives 1966-1996 CD: https://youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?si=A8OYMs5KYBrKE8di Latest book: Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer Writes songs. www.paulthompsonmusic.co.uk
chrisrowbury.substack.com/p/chris-rowb... My March monthly music round-up is out now. Includes: Choir ten commandments; The power of the pause; A brief history of pearl-diving music; The extraordinary life of singer Jake Thackray; song of the month - "The first time ever I saw your face"; and more!
“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.
Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...
But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
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Bollywood with a Jake Thackray soundtrack? There’s an interesting cultural mash-up!
We encountered many mis-spellings of Jake Thackray’s name while doing the research for ‘Beware of the Bull’, but this one, in an eBay listing, takes the prize. Gothic horror, perhaps?
Jake Thackray is always a tonic!
Join us in London on 15th August for Jakefest, a celebration of the genius of Jake Thackray. Tickets and info here: www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/lon...
Now there’s a tonic. Born on this day, the wonderful Jake Thackray
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In honour of Jake Thackray’s birthday, here is one of his lost songs I recorded. youtu.be/wFJOKNuiTdw?...
BBC Cymru Fyw - Jake Thackray: Y canwr o Sir Efrog â'i galon yng Nghymru
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#OnThisDay
1938 Jake Thackray born
The “North Country Noel Coward” was born in Kirkstall ,Yorkshire
After he graduated he spent 3 years in France as an English teacher and took on the Chanson style of Jacqes Brel and especially Georges Brassens
100% vinyl mix👇 www.mixcloud.com/The_Vinyl_Ar...
The Lost Will and Testament of Jake Thackray. A lovely present. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2021/11/21/t...
I was recently interviewed for a BBC piece about Jake Thackray’s connections with Wales. It’s in Welsh (though the interview was in English), and you can read it here. If you need it translated, the website gives you that option. Diolch!
:https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/erthyglau/c39wj38z8p8o
Jake Thackray is what Morrissey always thought he was.
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Have you heard the one about..?
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[CW: Jake Thackray is a brilliant artist and satarist. While his language and attitude is of his time, this song is very intentional with every word and should neither be apologised for nor winced at.]
Jake Thackray was truly a poetic songwriting genius, and this song is moving, amusing and honest.
Jake Thackray - "To Do With You", the finest love song ever written.
Enjoy!
Two books on a chair: "Beware of the Bull" by Paul Thompson and John Watterson and "Jake Thackray: The Unsung Writer". Both have a black and white photo of Jake Thackray on the cover.
Birthday reading.
👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I shall definitely be singing this at my Jake Thackray show at Seven Arts in Leeds on 20th February. Such glorious storytelling! youtu.be/tKbWnKs0qU0?...
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
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Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer on Valentine’s Day (Catholic Herald, 1995)
I’ve organised this Thackray festival in London on 15th August…
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
Thanks, Matthew.
#NowPlaying the audiobook of the Jake Thackray biography has inevitably led here
Glad to be of service!
#SONGTODAY From the great folk singer Jake Thackray here's his song Country Bus youtu.be/8EVnObn5jms?...
Jake Thackray - satirist, joker, protest singer, folk singer, pop star and social commentator rolled into one, whose records are among the most inventively arranged of the late sixties. Once he was all over television and radio, now he's barely mentioned.
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Here I am with Jake Thackray’s take on romance…
