Week 302: End of an era

On Thursday night I attended a small gig in an upstairs room at the Old Nun’s Head in Nunhead. It was a Green Party fundraiser and also the kind of gig that appeals to me anyway. I took a while to warm up to Tam Lin, but the long, brooding, mostly instrumental piece that they ended their set with won me over completely. Volume One Tongue, a.k.a. Isla Greenwood, has a beautiful voice and amazing control over it. Me Lost Me The line-up was curated by Me Lost Me – Jayne Dent – whose electronic folk I enjoyed a lot, especially her version of Mirie it is while sumer ilast, the oldest surviving recorded secular song in English – Middle English from the early 13th century, in fact. L— organised a private screening of Nine to Five (1980) on Saturday, as a celebration of the life of Dolly Parton. There were about 20 of us at THE NEW BLXCK, a cosy little venue in Shoreditch. I hadn’t seen the film before, but it’s a lot of fun. The central theme is feminist, but it also shows how all workers…