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...On the boat perches a spectral figure, bearded, raffish, rock-star cool — based on a photograph of bassist Berry Oakley of the Allman Brothers Band....
...The band’s visual identity is no less vividly disquieting. Childlike cartoons are repurposed to sinister ends, like the band’s logo of a toy bear bristling with teeth....
...Printed with an illegible cartography of overlapping scarlet bands, it is based on real urban plans including those for the development of a patch of wasteland close to HOME....
...in the eight-bedroom River House hotel....
...When the bear was relocated to the town park, there was a celebration for “the return of the bear”. For all the new activities in the town — bog triathlon, anyone?...
...We had cycled the equivalent of London to Inverness, or Paris to the Spanish border. We had joined a select but growing band of “end to enders”....
...There are other ways in which the India of today bears little resemblance to the India that Gandhi had struggled to build....
...The Swedes were reluctant to goad the Soviet bear a second time and in 1965 he was passed over in favour of the novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, a figure more acceptable to the Brezhnev regime....
...projected in our River of Patriots”....
...The list is extensive, but nowhere bears his mark more than London, his home, his favourite city....
...The bands who moved to Brooklyn early in the past decade — The National, Grizzly Bear and others — were followed by live venues and record stores....
...The vast majority of local councils are apolitical and funded through the levy of a small “precept” on local council taxes, amounting to about £60 for a typical Band D household, but rising to almost £400...
...The ubiquity of administration officials who move in and out of office reminds me of the 1976 song “Hotel California”, a meditation on what one Eagles band member described as “the dark underbelly of the...
...We want to break the cycle of what [at-risk] kids are programmed to do. All of a sudden, being in a band is much more exciting than being in a gang....
...We took a canoe trip up the Big River, passing the remains of docks and dams where the logs were dragged before being floated down to the sea....
...It could have continued on this path with a straightforward commercial offering — a job lot of standardised rings, or wedding bands for couples hoofing it up to Gretna Green, should anyone still be doing...
...Sparks, playing keyboards throughout, overdubs with abandon, solos with glee and brings to life his array of 1970s keyboards and synths with an authenticity that so few retro-inclined bands achieve....
...It all seemed a small price to pay for spotless campsites, a clean river and the fantasy that we were a happy band of gypsies, floating further and further into the wild....
...Lacking legitimacy and a parliamentary majority, Mr Tshisekedi does indeed have an uncomfortable burden to bear. His near-collapse on stage was not, perhaps, the most auspicious of starts....
...The men’s long, thigh-high boots are gartered in colourful bands strung with pom-poms, while the women wear richly embroidered coats of reindeer skin that fall to just below the knee....
...It gives the songs a gravity they were not intended to bear, a set of poignantly lively indie anthems that bear the imprint of obvious influences — Leonard has a yowl to rival the Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill...
...At 70, we’re negotiating a dangerous bend in the river....
...of the San Juan river into the “Bears Ears national monument” (the name comes from two lofty buttes that form a local landmark)....
...Out of his protracted torment Matar has forged a memoir that in its nuance and nobility bears unforgettable witness to love, to courage and to humanity....
...Since 2011 though, Eta has made news only sporadically, mostly when another of its dwindling band of members is arrested....
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