Iain Sinclair – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

August’s tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

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London organ-grinder tweets for September 2017

Barrel/street organ stuff.

Napoleon as Harlequin, tumbler, fraudster, monkey (?): Come, come, honest gents, have you ever seen a comedy like that!

Transvestite barrel organ dancers in 1930s Whitechapel and the 1860s London West End

With acrobats, clowns, and Doris and Thisbe, goddesses of wind.

Acrobats whirling to the sound of a barrel organ on a chain carousel at the National Fair, Bergen, Norway, 1928.

Hackney Brook restoration scheme

Iain Sinclair wrote of when “global warming rolls a warm sea [up] the course of the old Hackney Brook.” The flow’s going to be the other way. Let me explain.

Shark jumping on Wick Road near St. Dominic's Primary School following the reinstatement of Hackney Brook.

Sod that, Royal Societies

Unsourced, but who cares: [Iain Sinclair] was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.[4] Sinclair commented: “I have always admired the RSPCA. They do a lot of good work.” Has a Spanish author ever turned down an invite to one of our innumerable kleptocratfests?