Well, deep into the wee small hours of the night, I opened my new book and began reading chapter one – page one! Heh! I’ll relate that experience later but I’ve just been prompted to tell you about some wonderful musical links that closely relate to our subject at hand. Now I have to admit here that I’ve been a fan of Kate Bush for an age and held her album The Sensual World close to my bosom as a one of the highlights of her career – but now I find there are references to Ulysses I’d never even guessed at. You do learn something every day after all! How very sobering.

Here then is a link to a post entitled Rejoyce/The Jefferson Airplane, and More on Classics Rock! subtitled Books shelved in songs about those pre-starship rock gods among many others paying homage to Joyce through the medium of rock’n’roll.

Another link takes us to the Allmusic blog and a post by Blair Sanderson – Love’s Old Sweet Song: Music for Bloomsday, a rather more scholarly look at the musicality to be found within the novel. Probably a bit much for a beginner like me, but I’ll be bookmarking it for a return read at some point.

Also for relevant recordings the voice of the man himself brought to us via Cory Doctorow’s post on Boing Boing a directory of wonderful things – Rare recording of James Joyce reading; Happy Bloomsday!

Keep your eyes peeled here because I intend to bring you all things Joycean right here whenever they occur!