The Future Seen by Starman,… IS NOW

and it might just be that our poems, stories and songs, our invisible angels, are being guided on their light years of travel by The Starman
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music on guitar, On Timple, ON FEET AND HANDS

There was an incredible performance that saw the partnership of dance, body and instrument deliver a perfect example of the roots and routes that this ensemble might be able to explore in the future.

MAGIC. MUSIC, MYSTERY & so much more to offer + bits and pieces

When you check out the line-up for New Jersey Performing Arts Centre spectacular season—bigger than ever, with new performances beingannounced all the time, we are sure you would agree it must be a marvellous experience, to have today’s top talent minutes from home. ´You want it?´ njpac ask. ´We’ve got it ¡´

TALKING THE LATE JOHN PRINE

John Prine create some of the greatest poetry in Americana music. His songs are littered with conversational dialogue and have a remarkable sense of characterisation.

WHEN DOVES CRY they are probably arguing !

He felt this was the best and he knew he had a hit song… so he decided to do something really daring. That’s what Prince was all about.”

COSTELLO AND THE SPANISH MODEL + bits & pieces

Back in 1978, he sang in a furious rush, spitting out insults and paranoia. The singers here take their time with the melody and the words, a shift that helps pull the compositions into sharp relief; they sound more pop and less punk in this incarnation.

THE MUSIC MAKERS and a sense of poetry

t is not necessary, I think, to understand poetry to understand the poem. To those who do understand them it might well be that metres and word origins, and scant rhyme might add to the enjoyment of the poem but most of us would understand the depiction (which they may or may not agree with) of the role chosen by, or imposed upon, the artist in society.

WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN

It is important to keep the historical memory of the island alive, in this sense, and I believe there is a budget to set up a Fishing Museum on the island, Why hasn't it been done?

THE COST OF FREE SPEECH

My own unconstructed but long held views on the matter I usually express by saying, if you cling to freedom of speech you must afford others the same right whether or not you agree with what they say, I do know that any time I have got into a fight it has begun at exactly the moment I realised I had overstepped the line between free speech and gratuitous insult.

BARTHES, RUSHDIE, & FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Words are murdered to dissect by every individual reader, Wordsworth suggest, and the evidence gathered may be used against the author.