You’re Just Not Good Enough

Al Lorraine Richard's Ramblings

It’s very difficult to make a living doing something you love. Most people can’t, and end up getting a day job to subsidise their passion. The relentless drudgery of the ordinary must eventually drag them down. I suppose that’s why they end up shaking their fist in the air, shouting …

The Lach Chronicles on BBC Radio 4

Richard Melvin Radio, Richard's Ramblings

In 2007 I walked in to the Sidewalk Café on the lower East Side of Manhattan to try and find a man called Lach.  I was making a radio show with Dean Friedman for Radio Scotland and one of the episodes was about the Antifolk scene that Lach had invented. …