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

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

An Introduction

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), Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival: The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox (Equinox Publishing, 2020) and Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room (Equinox, 2023).

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Songwriter, poet, singer and storyteller Ivor Cutler grew up in an abusive Glasgow household headed by a violent, controlling and unpredictable grandfather who would routinely lash out at young Ivor and his siblings. The children, in turn, produced psychodramas to disturb their mother, occasionally entertained themselves with three grains of Troon sand, urinated into sponges when at home, and waited fearfully for grandfather to interrogate them about their use of the second-hand first aid book. At least, that’s the story that emerges from Ivor’s Life in a Scotch Sitting Room tales. The real story of his life is less fantastical, but equally fascinating and, in many aspects, little known or understood. This chapter briefly summarises many opinions about Ivor from his friends and from commentators such as Bernard Levin, and discusses my own love of his work, as a foundation for the rest of the book.

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Lindsay, Bruce. An Introduction. Ivor Cutler - A Life Outside the Sitting Room. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 1-2 Jan 2023. ISBN 9781800502949. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=42532. Date accessed: 21 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.42532. Jan 2023

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