Last updated October 2008
Bill's Links
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Here are a few music-sites which might interest you (i.e. which interest me)
This is a great site devoted to the singer-songwriter Judee Sill and contains many unreleased live tracks and demos. Sill died in 1979 in unhappy circumstances, after releasing three great albums.
Singer Jane Siberry's site (from which you can now download every individual track she has recorded). Siberry is a Canadian singer who has been producing ever more unusual albums since 1981. If you start with the anthology Love Is Everything (or, even better, the rather rarer and earlier compilation Summer In The Yukon ), you should find plenty to admire. (Siberry has now changed her name to 'Issa', by the way.)
Another web-site back onstream and with information about musician and singer Virginia Astley (Virginia isn't the author of the site, incidentally, but she co-operates with it). A new site is www.deborahjeanne.com - the web-site of Deborah Jeanne Weitzman, a Norway-based singer-songwriter originally from New York, whose Latin-tinged albums reflect her love of South American rhythms.
A web-site devoted to the half-disaster of the Weeley Festival near Clacton in 1971. This contains an article about my time there as a ‘security guard'.
One of the best second-hand record sites which brings together independent record dealers from across the world – easy to use, dangerous to trawl – you might well find something you've been looking for.
A highly detailed web-site about the “Canterbury” rock scene – Caravan (still going) and a whole host of others. See also http://www.caravan-info.co.uk/ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sinclairsongs/ and http://www.dave-sinclair.co.uk/
Family
The web-site of my sister's step-daughter, Hrefna Marin Gunnarsdottir – hundreds of images, and, if you speak Icelandic, a daily diary (portions in English).
Sunderland
The Sunderland Echo site
The official Sunderland AFC site
- and an independent rather franker site.
Poetry
Contemporary Writers - this is one of the clearest and best sites about writers, including a very full section outlining the work of a long selection of poets
Excellent introduction to a number of poetry magazines with a good archive.
Coffee House Poetry's site – the Cinnamon press poetry quarterly.
The site of Fal Publications including information about poet Victoria Field , whose Olga's Dreams is a must.
The home page of the very resourceful Poetry Kit site run by Jim Bennett.
Another excellent portal to poetry sites.
You can read (and indeed hear) my New Statesman poems from 2000 - 2002, by working back from this link: http://www.newstatesman.com/columns/poem/page/2
A good portal for American poetry magazines
An exceptionally good site on Sylvia Plath with images of several of her drafts.
Miscellaneous
The web-site of one of my more illustrious former students and a great chick-lit success.
The best web-site on rhetoric on the web.
Project Gutenberg: a huge resource of digitised fiction and non-fiction with thousands of titles to read online or download.
Links to the Lost Lives part of the site
The Jerome K. Jerome Society discussion forum This suggests a new biography of JKJ needs writing
Dan Leno entry in Wikipedia This references the site and borrows much of its information
Site with links to Joseph Merrick sites This describes the Lost Lives site as ‘excellent’