Oldenzaal – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

January tweets

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October

More rubbish.

Organ-grinder in courtyard - Bruno Schulz illustration to his story Księga, The Book, 1937.

Organ-grinder tweets for November 2017

More monkey mess from the peripatetic Homerton/Hackney barrel organ.

Rats/mice bearing the cat to his grave in Tarragona, anticipating Russian prints of the scene.

Organ-grinding tweets for August 2017

The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.

Pegida Nederland ≠ NSB, Syriërs ≠ Tsjechen, Assad ≠ Hitler etc. etc.

Maar dit artikeltje van 7 april 1939 over een clandestiene zender in Oldenzaal blijft toch interessant.

Sábado canto con un coro holandés en las plazas de Gracia para Oxfam

Sábado día 6 no habrá sesión a las 18:00, pero sí entre 11:30 y 13:30 en las plazas de Gracia. La haré con De Potters (literalmente “Los Alfareros”), un coro de un pueblo holandés culturalmente hiperactivo que dirigía hace varios años. El objetivo, sin embargo, es llamar la atención a un evento de Oxfam, y…

More experiments from the organ-grinder’s workshop

Videos of arrangements of Machito’s Bananas and Valencia, and a preview of a song about doggies.

Relocated

It’s difficult to conceive of figures with blue eyes and blond hair populating Gustav de Smeet’s Amsterdam. I think this is actually an Amsterdam as it might have been re-imagined by the considerable numbers of people of Mediterranean descent who live there and in the other great ports along that coast. The Sagrada Familia is…

Bus

Here are photos of the Wiebe bus. Can I have this side, please? (Here‘s the Stroadlfest brochure, for if you’re in Oldenzaal 31/12.)

Hengelo liberation diary

The Telegraph is publishing ((free) login required) the wartime recollections of WF Deedes, who passed through Hengelo and, one assumes, Oldenzaal on his way to Germany with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1944-5.