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Pete Fowler recommended Wolf City by Amon Duul in Music (curated)

 
Wolf City by Amon Duul
Wolf City by Amon Duul
1972 | Rock
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"I was living in Cornwall just after art college and lots of mates back home in Cardiff were really getting into kosmische stuff. One mate sent me a tape of this album. Amon Düül were a radical commune band, something which seemed a pretty out-there idea when you're living in Falmouth. I love this album, it's so varied. It's got pastoral music and very hard psych stuff on there side by side. I heard this record before hearing bands like NEU! and Cluster; it helped me get into the fact that the German bands of that post-war era had a year zero which was very appealing – by disregarding American rock & roll they created these amazing new templates. As with so many of these records, I'm drawn in by the artwork. The sleeve for Wolf City is amazing. I found out years later from Andy Votel that they created the sleeve by taking a photograph of an image created by several slide projectors overlapping onto a wall. You'd spend ages trying to get that right in Photoshop."

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ClareR (5674 KP) rated To Keep You Safe in Books

Oct 16, 2019 (Updated Mar 5, 2020)  
To Keep You Safe
To Keep You Safe
Kate Bradley | 2019 | Crime, Thriller
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7.0 (1 Ratings)
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An entertaining read!
Jenni is a maths teacher in a secondary school, and used to be in the armed forces. When one of her students, Destiny, arrives at school with a black eye, Jenni decides that she needs help - radical help, in fact, after a man turns up to collect Destiny from school with a gun tucked in to his belt. Jenni believes she must help Destiny to escape from a seriously dangerous situation. However, there’s much more to this story.

In fact, there is a lot to think about in this story: the way children are treated in the care system, the support for ex-servicemen and women, and human trafficking.

I liked the different perspectives that this was told in: Jenni, Destiny, and a couple of chapters told from the point of view of the Headteacher of Jenni and Destiny’s school. The different perspectives don’t always tell the same story though - and this is an important part of the whole story.

I liked this. It was an uncomfortable read at times, but I felt well entertained! And as usual, I enjoyed the whole Pigeonhole experience!