Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Frigg, The Mysterines, Nick Mason, Red Guitars, Justin Mauro & Mauro Durante and more – and it’s only June!

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 Well, we’re practically halfway through the year and I haven’t told you the half of what I’ve been up to. So, here goes... I won’t mention ...
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Sunday, 24 April 2022

Seeing double - Good Habits and Agent Starling

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Good Habits are a duo from Manchester - Bonnie Schwarz (vocals/cello) and Pete Shaw (accordion/ cajón .) By a quirk of fate, they were tour...
Monday, 11 April 2022

Living on the ceiling

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Avid followers of this blog may have been dismayed to find I haven’t published a new post here for a few months. (Well, I can hope that some...
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Sunday, 23 January 2022

Ghost owls and sleeping spirals - a selection of albums from 2021

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While last year provided extreme challenges for live music it also saw an outpouring of outstanding recordings. Many artists switched their ...
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Wednesday, 12 January 2022

The story is the telling - This is the Kit, plus by Nuala Honan (at The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham - 16 November 2021) and Alaw (at Bitterley Village Hall - 3 December 2021.)

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In a year in which live music was touch and go, it was great to be able to attend two fantastic gigs towards the end of 2021. In November, I...
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Tuesday, 21 December 2021

Agent Starling's ‘Northern Lights Trilogy’ - a blast of seasonal cheer

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One of the most innovative bands to appear in the past year has been Agent Starling, who have wasted no time in following up their debut alb...
Monday, 29 November 2021

Nursing literary ambitions

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My short story Weekend On Call has just been published. I’m delighted for two reasons. First, this is the second of my short stories to be ...
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