Entries by Norman Warwick

Sidetrack & Detours: 26th April 2026: Finds Gorillaz In The Missed Opportunity ? The Incredible String Band + the current official UK Folk Album Chart news

GORILLAZ  are lightly pasted by Sam Rosenburg in Paste magazine suggesting Gorillaz struggle to reach their emotional peak on their newly released album, The Mountain Sam Rosenburg´s opening salvo was perhaps fired in sadness rather than anger. The Paste publication, both on line and in print,  is one of the most thoughtful and diligent music news […]

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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS 12th April 2026: Music In Portsmouth, Karen Kingsley, pianist and The Free Radicals, a capella + classical music at The Camel House, pianist Eladda Pavlou

As the owner / editor of Sidetracks & Detours I am incredibly grateful to its team of wonderful volunteer contributors such as Peter Pearson, our Americana correspondent and Michael Higgins the occasional folk historian writer. I am always pleased by the integrity of their comments and the different styles of their writing. The three of […]

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SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS: 29th March 2026: Jonathan Ellis, a pianoman & Neil Sedaka, showman and songwriter of Solitaire and Labi Sifre, songwriter of (Something Inside) So Strong.

IT´S ONLY ROCK ´N ROLL, BUT I LIKE IT. r.i.p NEIL SEDAKA by Norman Warwick Even as the familiar title of the Rolling Stones hit came to mind, I almost dismissed it because it seemed to have nothing to do with central subject of the article I had in mind. After all surely Neil Sedaka […]

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Sidetracks & Detours 22nd March 2026: 17 ACTS NOMINATED FOR THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME 2026: & Peter Pearson hears ERIB BIBB and band play live.

The doors are opening at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (see Museum right) for its queue of nominees for 2026. In the queue shortlist is headlined by Sade, Phil Collins, Oasis, The Black Crowes, Joy Division and New Order, Mariah Carey, Iron Maiden, and Billy Idol, all of whom have appeared on previous ballots. Standing at […]

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SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS: Hear Stories We Could Tell, 8th March 2026. featuring The Everly Brothers, Roland Barthes, JP Ekins, classical pianist, Judith Choi, violinist and folk expo UK as well a theatre review of Jim Carthwright´s Road and another great Toad Lane Concert

Words And Music: STORYTELLING featuring The Everly Brothers:  Americana duo JP Ekins: Classical pianist Judith Choi Castro: classical violinist STORIES WE COULD TELL The Death Of Author by Roland Barthes as half-understood by Norman Warwick In a 1967 essay, The Death Of Author the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980) right), spawned a literary theory of the same name. […]

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POETRY / THEATRE / MUSIC: FOLK, CLASSICAL, AMERICANA, COUNTRY AND JAZZ Sidetracks & Detours Sunday 1st March 2026

CONTENTS ALL ACROSS THE ARTS poetry and creatiove writing 1 Amy Stansfield 2 Northern Voices and Identity 3 Spoken Word and Young Voices announcing theatre events 4 Heywood Civic Hall re-opens 5 Meet The Hatter 6 Lifting The Curtain classical music 7 Toad Lane Concert FOLK MUSIC collated by Expo Folk and Sound Roots SIDETRACKS […]

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