AT THE ART OF BLACK LIVES MATTER by Norman Warwick David Starkey (left) recently stepped into the Black Lives Matter conversation and upset everybody in what should be an absolutely incontrovertible issue but that is becoming more mis-appropriated and complicated by the day. He, seemingly deliberately, caused outrage by saying: ´Slavery was not genocide´, and […]
BURLY CHASSIS BREAKS A SHOE By Norman Warwick According to https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/ Dame Shirley Bassey is releasing her first new album in more than five years, to celebrate her 70-year career in showbiz. The album is being described as a ‘grand finale’ and will be dedicated to her fans. Produced as part of a deal with […]
BILL MORRISSEY, a novel in three verses and a chorus By Norman Warwick Unless you have bought any of his dozen or so albums you probably won´t have heard of Bill Morrissey. I thought for many years that there only three people in the UK who knew of his work. I had ´discovered´ him through […]
BEWARE A GEEK BEARING GIFTS By Norman Warwick Over the last four decades or so I collected about fifty albums by two particular singer-writers, John Stewart and Townes Van Zandt. It has all been the fault of Pete Benbow, a singer guitarist who so impressd me when he introduced me to the arts through his […]
ARTISTS & CURATORS, GALLERIES & GUIDES Entre Islas by Ildefonso Aguilar – CIC El Almacen Curated by Estefania Camejo Review by Norman Warwick I was privileged to work with a number of enthusiastic and excellent arts curators during my life in the UK, at galleries such as Touchstones in Rochdale, the Lowry in Salford and […]
FINAL REEL FOR GREAT MAN OF FILM By Norman Warwick Sir Alan Parker was twice Oscar-nominated for best director, for 1978’s Midnight Express and for 1988’s Mississippi Burning. While the director’s subject matter was eclectic, he did return frequently to the musical form: His films Bugsy Malone, Fame, Pink Floyd The Wall, The Commitments and […]
NEVER A GEEK By Norman Warwick It all started, I guess when I was eight years old and my godparent, ´Auntie´ Jennifer, who lived over the mountains from us in Sheffield sent me a book as a birthday present. I could tell by the shape and the weight and the wrapping that it was a […]
WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK OF DYLAN by Norman Warwick What people mean when they speak of Dylan can be as difficult to decipher as are his own lyrics. Usually what is said about him, or even to him, is agendised: Questions are cleverly phrased so as to try to draw out not the […]
VISIONS OF SIN: By Norman Warwick I had emigrated to take up residency here on Lanzarote only a month earlier when I watched in horror the on-line news footage that showed that I had lost the thousands of books and cds I had left in the not so capable hands of my brother. It wasn´t […]
TANGLED UP IN THE BLUES part 3 Sidetracks & Detours´ Dylan week By Norman Warwick with Steve Bewick This episode of the Sidetracks & Detours Dylan serial leads us Beyond The Blues, offering us a glimpse of Robert Johnson, the legendary blues man accused believed by many to have made a deal with the devil […]
