Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room - Bruce Lindsay

Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room - Bruce Lindsay

Life Inside the Sitting Room

Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room - Bruce Lindsay

Bruce Lindsay [+-]
Music Journalist and Social Historian
Bruce Lindsay is a freelance music journalist and social history researcher. He is the author of Shellac and Swing: A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain (Fonthill Media, 2020) and Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival: The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox (Equinox Publishing, 2020).

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Ivor Cutler fans have their own favourites from his work – “Women of the World” perhaps, or “Gruts” – but it’s the bizarre, funny and often disturbing Life in a Scotch Sitting Room tales that attract the most attention. Ivor recorded this series of narratives on a number of albums, on radio shows (notably in sessions for John Peel) and as a print collection. This chapter explores this unique series of stories, and the follow-up story collection Glasgow Dreamer, considering the extent to which they were based on real experiences (such is their nature, it is highly unlikely that most of the events within these stories actually occurred) and attempting to explain just why so many awful things happened to Bill.

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Lindsay, Bruce. Life Inside the Sitting Room. Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 75-86 Jan 2023. ISBN 9781800502949. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=42539. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.42539. Jan 2023

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