The former Undertones lead singer and keen fly fisherman is taking on the water companies and Environment AgencyFeargal Sharkey, the former frontman of the Undertones, is not a man who is short of opinions. By the time we've walked a few hundred metres, he's discussed the plight of journalism, the destructive monopoly capitalism of Google and Facebook, the state of the music industry and the irrepressible nature of British creativity.But those are not the subjects I have come to talk to him about. We're walking along the River Lea, one of southern England's abundant chalk streams. There are, according to Wikipedia, 210 chalk streams in the world, and 160 of them are in England. Sharkey puts the figures slightly higher. The point is, though, according to this keen fly-fisherman, the large majority of them are in a parlous state. Continue reading...
Feargal Sharkey's mission to save our chalk streams
1. prosinece 2018 17:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/01/feargal-sharkey-mission-save-our-chalk-streams-water-environment
Zdroj: The Guardian