Idler’s Academy 2010

Will is the author of Guitar Man, Song Man and The Ballad Of Britain. He writes on music and culture for The Guardian, The Times, Mojo and Vogue. He'll be talking about Corn On The Cob: The beginner's guide to Cornish psychedelia and mythology and will perform with Michael Tyack (Princes in The Tower) as Corn On The Cob, a tribute to the totally obscure early 1970s Cornish folk-rock band, Cob.
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John Mitchinson is head of research for the British television panel game QI (hosted by Stephen Fry), and co-author of the QI series of books, including the million-copy seller, The Book of General Ignorance (2006) and most recently, The QI Book of the Dead (2009), a philosophical compendium of the justly famous and undeservedly forgotten. He'll be talking about 'Dead Men Dressed in Brown' in the Idler's Academy.
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