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Steve Bewick presents A VIRTUALLY REAL FESTIVAL

Steve Bewick presents A VIRTUALLY REAL FESTIVAL Reviewed by Norman Warwick ´I´ve got so many treats in store, I´m gonna leave you beggin´ for more´ would have sounded enticing even on a poster for the Ribble Jazz And Blues Festival…
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LINES FROM THE LOCKDOWN

Norman Warwick looks at LINES FROM THE LOCKDOWN collated by Eileen Earnshaw Writing on our sister all across the arts page in The Rochdale Observer of Wednesday 13th May, Eileen Earnshaw, (seen far left with Shirley Anne Kennedy) a…

LIVING AND BREATHING LANZAROTE ARTS

LIVING AND BREATHING LANZAROTE ARTS Not surprisingly, this beautiful place with its vibrant colours and its strange sense of timelessness has produced many artists throughout its history and their work has been incorporated into the…
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COSTELLO by Andrew Moorhouse

COSTELLO by Andrew Moorhouse Late in 1978 a pal brought a new LP into the house for us to listen to. The cover showed a geeky looking guy in a charity shop suit and polka dot shirt behind a fancy camera on a tripod. The image says that he’s…

FUN AT THE FAIR

FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION WAS PERFECT by Norman Warwick It was a few weeks before we were all locked in and locked up in the lockdown. We had left the house at nine p.m. at night, for a quick trip into town, but in some ways found ourselves…
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FREAKS, FROLICS AND FADING BLUES by Michael Higgins

FREAKS, FROLICS AND FADING BLUES by Michael Higgins Norman Warwick’s recent article on the University Of Leeds dialect survey  (Sidetracks and Detours 30 April 2020) and his brief mention of my role (chairman) in the Edwin Waugh…
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WE ARE VIRTUALLY THERE

WE ARE VIRTUALLY THERE Before presenting his ´virtual´ Ribble Vallay Jazz And Blues programmes when the Festival was cancelled, Steve Bewick actually used these Sidetracks And Detours pages for a kind of triall run, and so he and I spent…
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FINE LINES FOR FINE PRESS POETRY By Andrew Moorhouse

FINE LINES FOR FINE PRESS POETRY By Andrew Moorhouse Andrew Moorhouse (left)talking to Norman Warwick I’ve been a bibliophile for as long as I can remember. My face, and mind, buried in books. I was a collector too; stamps…
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WORDS FROM THE WRITER: Andrea Sarginson

MAN OF GLASS - A NOVEL FOR OUR TIMES It was only five years ago, in retirement, that Andrea took up creative writing at Open University. Shortly after subsequently joining Touchstones Creative Writing Group (TCWG) she contributed prose and…
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JAZZ OPERA OF EXTRAORDINARY VITALITY by Steve Bewick

KING KONG A GIANT OF A JAZZ OPERA by Steve Bewick One of the most famous movies ever made, involving a big ape being transported to New York from an obscure island, was called King Kong and carried indelible images of the havoc wrought…