MUSIC FOR THE SUNSHINE DAYS a virtual radio selection for summer by Steve Bewick & Norman Warwick No sooner had I first published this article below than one of our regular contributors, Graham Marshall pressed our info@ button and pointed out, politely as is his way, that we might like to add his suggestion to […]
EVOLUTION AFTER LOCKDOWN Steve Bewick talks to John Ellis as Norm listens in Several years ago, Steve Bewick, my co-radio presenter and I interviewed musician and record producer John Ellis, who was a name I only knew because I had seen him play keyboards in Kirsty Almeida and The Troubadours band. Whilst I hadn´t previously […]
KIRSTY CROSSES MUSICAL BRIDGES By Norman Warwick Kirsty Almedia, and her band The Troubadours, played a selection of Winter Songs one evening, a few years ago, that warmed the hearts of a large audience that had turned out on the frostiest of evenings when, truly, ´the weather outside was frightful.´ I found her to be […]
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 […]
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
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A LITTLE BUNDLE OF SUMMER. sidetracks & detours 3rd September 2025 featuring Jazz Artist, Jenny Bray. Broadcaster and writer, Steve Bewick, Expo Folk and Sound Roots3rd September 2025 - 7:00 am