Category: .Mail & Guardian

  • ‘Dirt is Good’: Malawi Mouse Boys have soul

    ‘Dirt is Good’: Malawi Mouse Boys have soul 11 APR 2014 00:00 CLYDE MACFARLANE The gospel group have created a unique album in a style once throught to be untouchable thanks to artists such as Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. DIRT IS GOOD – MALAWI MOUSE BOYS (INDEPENDENT RECORDS) They…

  • Nomadic musical landscape

    Nomadic musical landscape 20 MAR 2014 00:00 CLYDE MACFARLANE Soutak is the latest album by Aziza Brahim (Glitterhouse Records). She reflects on her childhood roots. Map studiers may well trace a finger down the coast of Morocco, stumble across the ambiguous, grey-shaded territory that is Western Sahara and, after a…

I'm Clyde Macfarlane, an NCTJ qualified journalist and illustrator.

I draw using marker pen on card. I specialise in music and travel feature writing, and in 2009 I won a Guardian Media Award. In 2018 my poetry book, Across New Zealand in 140 Hitchhikes, was published by Paekakariki Press.

San Francisco Pride: 1978