His passions include songwriting, railways, travel, social history (especially of the British post-war variety), music and television. Robin currently lives overlooking the English Channel....not the House at World's End, but close enough.
"Part-time technophobe" (Lewis Parker featuring
Jehst, "Communications")
ROBIN CARMODY was born in South London before Starbucks came, and when McDonald's
hadn't long arrived. Arthur Daley still ruled the back streets, and most of
So Solid Crew hadn't been born yet. He lived his formative years in Kent,
where he read well and socialised badly. He then moved to South Dorset where,
as one of his creative mentors had done somewhere else in England in the 1960s,
he built up his frustration as a radical-leftie teenager living in what was
then the most marginal Tory seat in the country, even as the Labour landslide
swept through the land.
He has been writing regularly since 1999, and sporadically for some years
before that. His work has appeared on websites such as
Freaky Trigger, Transdiffusion,
Off The Telly and
the Labour
Animal Welfare Society. His work has been published in the music magazines
The Wire and Careless Talk Costs Lives, and has written most of the content
on his own website, Elidor.
Robin Carmody
Selected Essays:
- 1966
and all that
- The lost lineage of rural liberalism
-
Pop, England and Me
- The "traditional
rural way of life"
-
Northern Lights: Hood's "Cold House"
-
The Hangman's Ancient Sunlight: the strange story of the romantic left and
the agrarian right
-
The
Industrial Revolution and the Enclosure Acts - contemporary relevance
- The Battle for the English Soul
- Narrow Channel, Wide Atlantic: The Associates, early Simple Minds and Young
Marble Giants, 1980-1982
