SIMON ARMITAGE: ALBUM & AMBITION By Norman Warwick I´m sure most of us, if not by now then certainly by the end of lockdown, will have dreamed of our favourite restaurants we cannot wait to dine at again, or of a concert by a favourite act we want to see, a favourite country walk we […]
PRESIDENT SPEAKS FROM THE ART. Poets too. By Norman Warwick It would be a grand, but false, claim to suggest that the President of The Cabildo Of Lanzarote is in direct contact with us to keep us informed of new arts enterprises created to deflect the health crisis. Nevertheless, despite surely currently being a very […]
ISOLATION, INNOVATION & INVITATION By Norman Warwick Sandra Kinghorn, a former resident of Bury in Lancashire and now an artist living here on Lanzarote, who was a subject of a post on the Sidetracks and Detours blog https://aata.dev/ a couple of weeks ago, this morning sent all across the arts a facebook worth sharing. It […]
EVERY SATURDAY FOR YEARS UNTIL … By Norman Warwick Regular players in, or with, The Tonin Corujo Quartet include Tonin Corujo, of course, as well as Carlos Perez, Manuel Becerra, Domingo Corrujo, Kovacs Szolti, Szabo Mate, Israel Curbelo, Dionisio Rodriguez, Yarel Hernandez, Tony Cantero and Ale Garcia. Of these I noted Tonin, Carlos, Manuel (I […]
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL IN THE LOCKDOWN By Michael Higgins ‘It was an ancient Mariner And he stoppeth one of three…’, or as Coleridge originally spelt it, It was an ancient marynere’,in mock medieval style. So begins the very first poem in the original Lyrical Ballads of 1798 by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, […]
LOCKED UP IN THE LOCKDOWN BLUES a conversation between Steve Bewick & Norman Warwick Norm: ´As the song says, ´Morning Has Broken´. You can´t beat Cat Stevens even if that isn´t his name anymore. He used to write some fantastic songs, but he didn´t write that song, I know. It just said ´traditional´ on the […]
SPEED OF THE SOUND OF LONELINESS By Norman Warwick It is more than forty years since John Prine’s self-titled debut album was released. That means I have been listening to his music for two thirds of my life and have never tired of it. He is high among the pantheon of (mostly American) singer-writers who […]
ENQUIRY INTO MAXIMUM ENSEMBLE The e mail read: ´Here are the responses of the five questions you asked for, from each member of the ensemble, with Melina’s in the attached PDF. I had already seen the other interviews you did with the Russian girls, Iya Zhmaeva and Natalija Nicolaeva who performed Souvenirs Romantica in the […]
SUNBIRD SINGS of good news from Kimmie Rhodes Not only have our Cabildo (government) seemed to handle the coronavirus situation over here pretty well but so, too, have the citizens of Lanzarote who have stayed away from the beaches and the countryside. With virtually no tourists left on the island and all the hotels and […]
LIKE TEENAGERS IN LOVE ! Romeo and Juliet come calling There’s a bit of history between me and Romeo, to be honest, as this youth has let me down on more than one occasion. Seventeen years ago, back in the UK when I was a fifty year old mature student, I was asked by a […]
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