Saturday, 30 March 2019

The Unique Sound of PerKelt

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PerKelt Wagon and Horses,  Digbeth, Birmingham Tuesday  12 March A friendly Victorian pub in Birmingham seemed a slightly incon...
Saturday, 9 March 2019

Matisse, guitars, marionettes and Robinson Crusoe ... and how not to be ashamed of returning

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HMS Victory (c) Tony Gillam 2019 When I was about ten years old I realised I would never be any good at football. Instead, I switched my...
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Saturday, 12 January 2019

Bangor University, Botticelli and The Beatles

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This year, it will 40 years since I left home to head off to Bangor University . Fittingly, I've just finished reading  Bangor Unive...
Sunday, 18 November 2018

The Strawbs Celebrate Fifty Years

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The Strawbs Huntington Hall, Worcester Wednesday 14 November Sometime in the 1970s my brother Phil and I were dragged along to w...
Sunday, 1 July 2018

Where do we go from here? - Dulcimers at Halsway and the Beardy Folk Festival

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 Dulcimers at Halsway ©Tony Gillam May and June turned out to be full of musical surprises. In May, I spent a week at Halsway Man...
Sunday, 6 May 2018

African dreamworlds, driftwood harps and non-existent spaghetti western soundtracks - A round-up of some of the best world music you may not yet have discovered

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Suku - Your Life Is Your Poem by Nils Kercher ... Driftwood Harp by Pippa Reid-Foster ... Innamorata by Andrea Terrano German mult...
Friday, 30 March 2018

Sprains and strains and darkest hours

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Keswick's Alhambra cinema In my early twenties I visited the Alhambra – the fortified Moorish palace built between 1248 and 1354 n...