RIDICULE IS NOTHING TO BE SCARED OF By Norman Warwick and Steve Bewick He was simply a dandy, showing us he was handsome, but with his painted face and a ribbon in his perma-waved hair he was inviting merciless teasing. Nevertheless, he kept reminding us that ´ridicule is nothing to be scared of.´ Musicians and […]
THEATRE SCHOOL SHOWCASED ON LINE Live performances would have been the natural culmination of the second edition of the Festival de Teatro Escolar de Lanzarote, an initiative promoted by the area of Culture of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the company Cuerpo Teatro, who have agreed on this solution to the closure of scenic spaces […]
Steve Bewick presents A VIRTUALLY REAL FESTIVAL Reviewed by Norman Warwick ´I´ve got so many treats in store, I´m gonna leave you beggin´ for more´ would have sounded enticing even on a poster for the Ribble Jazz And Blues Festival that should have taken place in the UK over the May Bank Holiday, but when […]
Norman Warwick looks at LINES FROM THE LOCKDOWN collated by Eileen Earnshaw Writing on our sister all across the arts page in The Rochdale Observer of Wednesday 13th May, Eileen Earnshaw, (seen far left with Shirley Anne Kennedy) a colleague of mine when I lived and worked in the UK, said that the lockdown has […]
LIVING AND BREATHING LANZAROTE ARTS Not surprisingly, this beautiful place with its vibrant colours and its strange sense of timelessness has produced many artists throughout its history and their work has been incorporated into the very structure of the island. Stop in it any little church and you are likely to find the religious iconography […]
COSTELLO by Andrew Moorhouse Late in 1978 a pal brought a new LP into the house for us to listen to. The cover showed a geeky looking guy in a charity shop suit and polka dot shirt behind a fancy camera on a tripod. The image says that he’s looking at you, he’s not asking […]
FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION WAS PERFECT by Norman Warwick It was a few weeks before we were all locked in and locked up in the lockdown. We had left the house at nine p.m. at night, for a quick trip into town, but in some ways found ourselves heading all the way back to the future ! […]
FREAKS, FROLICS AND FADING BLUES by Michael Higgins Norman Warwick’s recent article on the University Of Leeds dialect survey (Sidetracks and Detours 30 April 2020) and his brief mention of my role (chairman) in the Edwin Waugh Dialect Society has reignited something from my own past, not only of dialect but of voice and the […]
WE ARE VIRTUALLY THERE Before presenting his ´virtual´ Ribble Vallay Jazz And Blues programmes when the Festival was cancelled, Steve Bewick actually used these Sidetracks And Detours pages for a kind of triall run, and so he and I spent a fortnight or so swapping e mails and facebook messages putting together an article called […]
FINE LINES FOR FINE PRESS POETRY By Andrew Moorhouse I’ve been a bibliophile for as long as I can remember. My face, and mind, buried in books. I was a collector too; stamps in my early years then, as a teenager, the autographs of footballers and cricketers, then records and, all the while, books. If […]
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Pass It On 2/11/2025 Jenny Bray, Nash and Asher, Opus 222nd November 2025 - 7:00 am
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