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  1. Recorded #OnThisDay 45 years ago:

    Ivor Cutler - Pellets (Peel Session)

    Pellets by Ivor Cutler, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 15 April 1981.

    youtube.com/watch?v=L4EcGdiZOvI

    #IvorCutler #PeelSessions #OTD

  2. “When strangers call me Ivor it’s like getting a French kiss from a public relations consultant”

    Ivor should get the last word: in this TV special from 1998, directed by Ewan Morrison for STV’s weekly arts programme Don’t Look Down, Ivor Cutler interviews himself…

    7/7

    youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6gzzoiQbE

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  3. “You don’t look like a newspaperman. You have fighter pilot eyes.”

    —Alastair McKay takes “a hirple through the poetic humour of Mr Ivor Cutler, humorist, teacher, cloud-fancier, opsimath”

    6/7

    alastairmckay.substack.com/p/p

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  4. “We set off in a straggly line, hugging the wall to escape the worst of the effects of the fresh air …”

    Episode 11 of Ivor Cutler’s LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, Vol. II, recorded on his 1976 LP “Jammy Smears”

    5/7

    youtube.com/watch?v=uwNcxd9Jf9I

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  5. “Cutler had a lighter, quieter, sparser approach to the weird, macabre and illogical than the majority of surrealists. The darkness is transmuted into mischief and the savagery into play. There is melancholy in some of the poems, even despair, but it tends to be counterbalanced by the charm and daftness.”

    —Rhys Hughes on the sublime daftness of Ivor Cutler

    4/7

    borderlessjournal.com/2021/06/

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  6. “Cutler performed on the opening night of BBC Two, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other act except The Fall, played Buster Bloodvessel in The Beatles’ A Magical Mystery Tour and was, according to Peel, the first performer to appear on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4.”

    —Bruce Lindsay answers ten questions on Ivor Cutler

    3/7

    theartsdesk.com/books/10-quest

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler #JohnPeel #TheBeatles

  7. If a lion attacks
    Stoop swiftly
    Pick up two medium sized rock stones
    And insert them deftly up his nostrils…

    —Ivor Cutler, “Jungle Tip: Lion”

    A poem / useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)

    2/7

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  8. “I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”

    Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan

    In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:

    1/7

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  9. A hearty recommendation for Hamish Hawk's album, Life In A Scotch Sitting Room, Vol.0 . I saw the show of this as part of the Edinburgh book festival and as somebody who adored the late Ivor Cutler as well as saw him live many a time the performance and the album version highlights build on Cutler's work,covering some classics and adding some very moving life-childhood-vignette type pieces by Hamish. #Music #HamishHawk #IvorCutler
    discogs.com/release/35884909-H

  10. The Hamish Hawk adaptation of works by the late Ivor Cutler(plus Hamish's own wonderful childhood memories) in Edinburgh this weekend past was one of those life affirming experiences. One of the songs he covered & which greatly amused the audience, especially after Hamish held his microphone towards the audience to join in the chorus was Little Black Buzzer.
    Hopefully the show will tour. It was certainly filmed.
    #music #IvorCutler #Edinburgh
    youtube.com/watch?v=EtIYIHvMEv

  11. Per the band's video description: “A specially recorded version of the Ivor Cutler song Women Of The World for #InternationalWomensDay. Originally released by #IvorCutler and #LindaHirst on #RoughTrade in the early eighties, the song is a feminist plea for women to assume power in an attempt to undo the damage done by patriarchal society before it's too late.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_C

  12. In praise of #ivorcutler

    I was recently made aware of the wonder poet, raconeteur, eccentric, and otherwise brilliant individual, Ivor Culter.

    He knocked around with the likes of the Beatles, back in his heyday.

    The song ("song", in the sense of most of his work involved a harmonium) which I like is called #shoplifters which is about people who lifted up a shop, rather than robbed from it. See:

    youtu.be/wuAM5IRgxm0?si=kZd0ij

    Note that this comes from the "Ivor Cutler Trio" -- a mono-version (i.e., just Ivor), can be seen here:

    youtu.be/bVNvC2sNxio?si=By_koT

    I wish I had known of him sooner.

    For more general information, see:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Cut

  13. “When strangers call me Ivor it’s like getting a French kiss from a public relations consultant”

    Ivor should get the last word: in this TV special from 1998, directed by Ewan Morrison for STV’s weekly arts programme Don’t Look Down, Ivor Cutler interviews himself…

    7/7

    youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6gzzoiQb

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  14. “You don’t look like a newspaperman. You have fighter pilot eyes.”

    —Alastair McKay takes “a hirple through the poetic humour of Mr Ivor Cutler, humorist, teacher, cloud-fancier, opsimath”

    6/7

    alastairmckay.substack.com/p/p

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  15. “We set off in a straggly line, hugging the wall to escape the worst of the effects of the fresh air …”

    Episode 11 of Ivor Cutler’s LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, Vol. II, recorded on his 1976 LP “Jammy Smears”

    5/7

    youtube.com/watch?v=uwNcxd9Jf9

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  16. “Cutler had a lighter, quieter, sparser approach to the weird, macabre and illogical than the majority of surrealists. The darkness is transmuted into mischief and the savagery into play. There is melancholy in some of the poems, even despair, but it tends to be counterbalanced by the charm and daftness.”

    —Rhys Hughes on the sublime daftness of Ivor Cutler

    4/7

    borderlessjournal.com/2021/06/

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  17. “Cutler performed on the opening night of BBC Two, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other act except The Fall, played Buster Bloodvessel in The Beatles’ A Magical Mystery Tour and was, according to Peel, the first performer to appear on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4.”

    —Bruce Lindsay answers ten questions on his biography of Ivor Cutler

    3/7

    theartsdesk.com/books/10-quest

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler #biography

  18. “Jungle Tip: Lion”
    by Ivor Cutler

    A poem/useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)

    2/7

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  19. “I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”

    Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, humorist, absurdist, musician – was born #OTD, 15 Jan. A 🎂 🧵 …

    In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:

    1/7

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

  20. It's Ivor Cutler's Birthday! He was born on this day in 1923. Here's my favourite Ivor spoken word piece, "Gruts for tea", as broadcast on the BBC John Peel show 1979-02-20
    archive.org/details/cutler7986

    #IvorCutler #SpokenWord #JohnPeel #gruts #mp3 #InternetArchive

  21. That was odd. Catherine just took the car to work, and I'm up in my home office. The second the car started, my phone started playing music. I guess it still thought it was paired.

    Anyway, it's always a joy to get an Ivor Cutler track played at you, especially when you least expect it

    (it was "Jelly Mountain", btw)

    #mp3 #bluetooth #IvorCutler

  22. New upload:

    Ivor Cutler - Lemon Flower (Peel Session)

    Lemon Flower by Ivor Cutler, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 17 August 1976.

    #IvorCutler #PeelSessions

    youtu.be/vW7Kk8aAXDk

  23. A lovely cover of an Ivor Cutler song: John E. Flamingeaux — flamingeaux.bandcamp.com/track
    (free download). The original was meant to be in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, but was cut before broadcast.

    This cover is by a bunch of Hamburg bluegrass musicians, and is clearly influenced by Nic Jones' wonderful live cover.

    Ivor would have been 101 today ...

    #IvorCutler #bluegrass #hamburg #beatles #MagicalMysteryTour #NicJones

  24. An extended #introduction...

    I was an #immunologist for 20+ years. I found out which protein from which #OralBacteria causes your teeth to fall out. And how it does it.

    I have lots of records. Fave artists?
    #Mingus
    #BillCallahan
    #Robyn
    #AphexTwin
    #DavidSylvian
    #KathBloom
    #ChrisWatson
    #IvorCutler
    ... et cetera.

    Some of my favourite authors are on here.
    @GreatDismal
    @mjohnharrison @Jwomack
    #IainBanks, sadly, is not.

    #HarryCallahan is my favourite photographer.
    moma.org/artists/924