Fancy seeing Mumford and Sons in a collaborative show with Dharohar Project + Laura Marling when they play St George’s Hall Bradford, Bridge Street Bradford, Monday 12th July?
We’ve got our hands on a pair of tickets for a lucky reader. The comp is simple, just leave your name and say something genuinely nice about what you like about The Culture Vulture (see we are easily bought) and we will pick the winner out of the best crafted ode!
The winner will be informed Sunday night, so please do NOT enter if you can’t go to the event on Monday…and we aren’t keen on those just trying to bag tickets to sell on EBAY!
My name is Harry Egerton and I work for a digital arts charity called folly (http://www.folly.co.uk) and we are working on a project called Love Culture (http://www.loveculture.org.uk) which is our attempt at producing a cultural/arts based social networking platform. Our goal is to allow artists and audiences to be closer connected and linked. In order that people can find out what’s going on in their local area, discuss things they have been to see and many other things besides. It is very much in the beta phase at the moment and a lot of work is needed on it. You appear to be doing something slightly similar and for that I must applaud you.
Whilst I have only just discovered your site I am highly impressed and think that it appears to be a most excellent idea and initiative. So whoever came up with it then high five to you. I also love the name, catchy, snappy and distinctive.
I particularly like the breakdown of your site from people & places to the daily grind to…well you know how you do it. So congrats once again. Keep up the good work and let’s keep the cultural revolution in full swing.
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That and added to the fact that there is a little bit of something for everybody on culture vultures, all aspects of culture are talked about and all with such passion.
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The Hunger Of The Culture Vulture
– Why they should always be in your life. Why they’re always watching.
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I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside
above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling
high up in heaven.
And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbit narrowing,
I understood then that I was under inspection.
I lay death-still and heard the flight-feathers.
Whistle above me and make their circle and come nearer.
I could see the naked red head between the great wings,
bear downward staring. I said, “My dear bird, we are wasting time here.
These old bones will still work; they are not for you.”
But how beautiful he looked, gliding down.
On those great sails; how beautiful he looked,
veering away in the sea-light over the precipice.
I tell you solemnly that I was sorry to have disappointed him.
To be eaten by that beak and become part of him,
to share those wings and those eyes–
What a sublime end of one’s body, what and enskyment;
what a life after death.
The Culture Vulture swoops over the battlefield while the swords still clang, and picks through the bones to the marrow. It digests the lot and reassembles it in polished nuggets. That doesn’t sound nice and sometimes culture isn’t. But the culture vulture knows what is and what’s for whom. Top bird.
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Hi there,
For anyone interested in Dharohar – an intriguing group of musicians from Rajasthan, please go to http://www.dharohar.co.uk, we are making a documentary about their story. Click onto http://www.dharohar.co.uk for clips, music, features – we are also looking for funding for post production, screenings etc. via Indie gogo.
Many thanks and happy reading!
Ku