The Cafe OTO gig is broadcast again on 10am this Sunday (12th May). Perfect Sunday morning music - one hour of consummate Snock...

http://resonancefm.com/schedule

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Incidentally, although I love Michael's stuff, I get totally blank looks when I play anything to friends.

I wonder if I gave Raymond blank looks when he first played me Have Moicy way back in 1982 or whenever it was? Back then my Folk was all String Band Celtic Twilight Strangely Strangeness, but what got me by the balls was Snock's fiddle playing which (along with Jim Eldon) would shape my whole understanding of the instrument.

I think I'm blessed in having a wife that adores Michael Hurley as I do (she even had the gumption to get him to sign the CD we bought of him the other night whilst I just stood there in mute awe of the man) - and I've rarely encountered anything but warm appreciation whenever I attempt to infect friends with the Snock Virus, supposing they're not already infected. I think maybe this tells you a lot about my friends. It's always a joy when someone turns out to be a fellow Snockophile - like Ross and Matthew and Nigel and several others I've known down the years...

There are several Idiosyncratic Outsiders I adore in the same way as Michael Hurley (Moondog, Jim Eldon, Davie Stewart, Rene Zosso, Harry Partch, Sun Ra to name a few) & I've long suspected The Wilderness to be the true home of The Tradition. Literal, metaphorical, it's there in Hurley's work from picturesque nature to the yearning longings of the wandering soul which flits from the human world at the call of the wild. The weird genius of the iconoclastic outsider in a world where life on the inside is just too ghastly to contemplate...   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ku10PThPn8