HIS NAME IS ON THEIR FLAMING LIPS

On the deepest level, making music for the Flaming Lips requires tapping into an egoless naivety, a complete surrender to the song

SHIRLEY BASSEY KEEPS HER PROMISE

Even now, if a track of this album were to be played on the radio with no introduction you would still recognise that voice as soon as you heard it.
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In Praise Of The Poets: James Nash

I feel lucky, but I suppose like most freelance artists I have made a lot of my ‘luck’ happen!
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BUSY DOING NOTHING ON LANZAROTE

BUSY DOING NOTHING ON LANZAROTE by Norman Warwick El Golfo green lagoon, Lanzarote For an island with approximate dimensions of only 70 km from north to south and 25 km from west to east, Lanzarote has over 200 km of coastline, of…
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ARTS & SCIENCE & EDUCATION FOR ALL CAN SAVE THE WORLD

´yet another educational Cinderella that is conveniently swept under the carpet.´
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A BALM FOR THE PHILISTINES, OINTMENT FOR THE MIND by Michael Higgins

the upper room of the brightly lit Baum was thronged, or ´thrung´as one says in the dialect, overheated and loud.

ON THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION

He is a man of mantra and aphorism it seems and he used the phrase "On the way to canvas, to paper, to nature," many times throughout the afternoon to describe his process.
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A KIND OF IMMORTALITY for Helen Reddy

down the radio waves she somehow left a record, Angie Baby, on the jukebox of my mind that has stayed with me over forty years.
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´I´VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU, MR. BOND´. St. Peter at the Gates.

Connery’s genius was to combine menace with a twinkling Celtic wit. His Bond was a loaded weapon. Yet there was a wryness to his performance that told you that both spy and actor were in on the joke.