February 2012
1 post
A Message From Tiny Birds
Hello.
The first rule of Tiny Birds is that you do not discuss Tiny Birds. Or at least that is how it has seemed recently, as our mailing list has been decidedly quiet, leaving our fans riddled with questions. Why haven’t we heard anything? What are they doing? What’s that smell coming from under the door?
Well, now we are here to answer all of those questions and more. We had...
January 2012
2 posts
One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
December 2011
1 post
A message from Tiny Birds
Have you had too many silent nights lately? Too many stockings and not enough rocking? Worried that you’re not stuffing enough live music into your festive season? Give the gift of indie-folk this Christmas by taking your loved ones to one of Tiny Birds’ festive December gigs:
Thursday the 8th - The Good Ship in Kilburn with Not Made in China, Spaghetti Anywhere and Effort Doors at...
November 2011
4 posts
September 2011
6 posts
Autumn Tree
You can now buy my painting! (If you want to). Only 5 prints left.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/timidheathen
August 2011
4 posts
4 tags
Free Comedy Gig
Hello Tumblr.
This Friday I am running a free comedy gig and I’d like you all to come. E-mail timidheathen@googlemail.com to reserve seats or RSVP here or here.
Here are the details:
A unique opportunity to see the hotly-tipped Quotidian Revue before they head off to Edinburgh, and the as-ever fantastic David Trent. DAVID TRENT “Trent showed himself to be a creator of bold,...
July 2011
10 posts
June 2011
20 posts
Album Review: Lail Arad - Someone New (with...
Oringinal post with free download here.
Lail Arad is an up-and-coming singer/songwriter from London, signed to French label Notify, and has a one album under her belt and a dedicated cult following. Quirky, clever and witty, she has been compared to Lily Allen and Kimya Dawson (and SoKo - by me), but it’s her influences of Simon & Garfunkel and Joni Mitchell that shine through most...
JK Rowling on Paying Taxes →
seanbamforth:
From here:
I chose to remain a domiciled taxpayer for a couple of reasons. The main one was that I wanted my children to grow up where I grew up, to have proper roots in a culture as old and magnificent as Britain’s; to be citizens, with everything that implies, of a real country, not free-floating ex-pats, living in the limbo of some tax haven and associating only with the...
Album Review: Herman Dune - Strange Moosic
Everyone’s heard of Herman Dune, haven’t they? Heralded by John Peel, this lo-fi, Swedish-French duo would be in my list of top twenty bands ever (I can’t get it down to ten) and is loved by nearly all my indiepop favourites. Made up of David-Ivar (aka Yaya) and Cosmic Néman (but also playing and recording with bassist Ben Pleng, backing singers and horn sections), they have been releasing...
London Gig Guide (18th-25th June)
http://timidheathenmusic.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/london-gig-guide-18th-25th-june/
‘Lay Your Head On My Chest’ by Herman...
New Blog
Hello, I’ve just started a music blog on wordpress, at http://heathenmusicoftheweek.wordpress.com/. Here is the first (and as yet only) post if you can’t be bothered to click that link.
Cloud Control are a four-piece indie band, hailing from the beautifully-named Blue Mountains just outside of Sydney, Australia, and they’ve just released their highly-anticipated debut...
Instructions from Gil Scott-Heron
This is what is written on the CD inlay of Gil Scott-Heron’s most recent, and sadly now last, album, and I think it’s excellent advice:
There is a proper procedure for taking advantage of any investment. Music, for example. Buying a CD is an investment. To get the maximum you must
LISTEN TO IT FOR THE FIRST TIME UNDER OPTIMUM CONDITIONS.
Not in a car or on a portable player through...
May 2011
9 posts
