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Small World, but you wouldn’t want to paint it – entering the sonic sphere of Metronomy with Joe Mount
It’s sign of the times that barely a fortnight after Metronomy shared feelgood second single, ‘Things Will Be Fine’, from their forthcoming seventh album, sole ever-present member Joe Mount – newly returned from Paris – had been forced to temporarily … Continue reading
Turning on, dropping by and tuning in for the Swansea Sound experience – off to the Vale of Glam with Hue Williams
With so many new records in recent months it’s often been a case of ‘out at last’, albums long delayed after 18 or so months of lockdowns and various restrictions. But not the delightful debut LP from the remotely assembled … Continue reading
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Tagged 60 Ft. Dolls, Amelia Fletcher, Big Leaves, Catatonia, Catenary Wires, Dale Griffin, Glamorgan, Gruff Rhys, Heavenly, Hue williams, Ian Button, James Brown, John Peel, Kent, Live at the Rum Puncheon, Mark Cousins, Million Seller, Misty in Roots, Preston Pop Fest, Rhys Ifans, Rob Pursey, Robert Rotifer, Sea Urchins, Steve Gregory, Super Furry Animals, Swansea, Swansea Sound, Talulah Gosh, The Continental, The Fall, the Pastels, The Pooh Sticks
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Over the Birling Gap with The Catenary Wires – the Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey interview
It was meant to be. The day we spoke, May 24, opening with me listening to Tallulah by The Go-Betweens, that 1987 taste of striped sunlight including a namecheck for that date on the evocative ‘Bye Bye Pride’. And 1987 … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Fletcher, Andy Lewis, Birling Gap, Bristol, Canterbury, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, David Gedge, Elizabeth Price, Fay Hallam, Frampton Cotterell, Heavenly, Hue williams, Ian Button, John Peel, Kent, Lee Hazlewood, Marine Research, Nancy Sinatra, Oxford, Pete Astor, Peter frampton, Peter Momtchiloff, Preston, Rob Pursey, Robert Wyatt, Swansea Sound, Talulah Gosh, Tender Trap, The Catenary Wires, The five Year Plan, The Go-Betweens, The Pooh Sticks, The Wedding Present
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A class act – the Tom Williams interview
Blokes aren‘t supposed to be capable of multi-tasking, but Tom Williams has pulled off something of a highwire balancing act while juggling spectacularly this past couple of years. There are definitely no regrets at turning his back on the music … Continue reading
Moving the room with the James Taylor Quartet
There was some serious attention seeking going on when I called James Taylor at his home studio in Kent. It wasn’t down to him though, but his Cairn terrier, Heidi, after he shut her out of his studio in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Acid Jazz, Bach, Blow-Up, Booker T & The MGs, Caravan, Eddie Piller, George Benson, Georgie Fame, Herbie Hancock, Ian McLagen, James Brown, James Taylor, James Taylor Quartet, Jimmy Smith, John Peel, Jon Lord, Keith Emerson, Kent, Kylie Minogue, Medway, Mod, Pat Illingworth, Preston Guild Hall, Rochester, Ronnie Scott's, Starsky & Hutch, Stockholm. Mark Cox, The Prisoners
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Living the Good Life – the Martina Cole interview
Martina Cole is a publishing phenomenon, having made a habit of smashing sales records with each of her 21 novels. Her hard-hitting, uncompromising writing is in a genre all of its own, and as her publisher puts it, ‘no one … Continue reading
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Tagged AJ Cronin, Dangerous Lady, Essex, Jackie Collins, Kent, Libraries, Martina Cole, Preston, The Good life, The Ladykiller, The Runaway, The Take, Two Women, Wilko Johnson
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Your town is not dragging Mark Steel down
Ever listened to Radio 4’s Mark Steel’s in Town? It comes highly recommended, following the stand-up comic, author, columnist and esteemed travel broadcaster around the UK, talking about often less celebrated areas. He’s far from patronising too, funny but never … Continue reading
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