RADIO JAZZ AND LIVE JIVE Crescent Community Radio broadcast all across the Rochdale borough. In a town where ethnic diversity was and is a well-managed yet nevertheless sensitive subject, the station is run by the Muslim community and aimed at the ‘stay at home mums and taxi drivers’ of that community. Station owner Faheem Chisti […]
JUXTAVOICES: JUST BRILLIANT There is a large number of Rochdale-based arts organisations providing a wide range of fantastic services all across the arts. These organisations not only provide entertainment but also boost the Borough’s sense of community and help the town stand steadfast against those who come in seeking to create racial tension. Whilst there […]
GREAT STUFF FROM AN IMPORTANT BAND The preview in the September edition of the Cultural And Arts Agenda for the month had suggested that Orquesta Catacumbia would rock but nothing could have prepared me for what I eventually saw and heard from this Tenerife band. Nevertheless on arrival at the venue we saw only three […]
PUSH BUTTON HEAVEN by Norman Warwick Track listing Is It A Monster? by The Automatic Listening to Leven by Marc Cohn You Turn Me On I´m A Radio by Joni Mitchel Listen To The Radio by Nanci Griffith Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles Satelite Radio by Steve Earle That´s Why God Made […]
A STRANGE THOUGHT JUST CROSSED MY MIND by Dave Espin When Norm asked me to put together some personal reminiscences of a band we both admire greatly, I agreed with trepidation. Partly because I didn’t want to let him down and partly because I hadn’t done anything like this before but mainly because the band […]
Track listings The Eyes Of a Painter by Kate Wolf Rene and Georgette Magritte by Paul Simon Let The Picture Paint Itself by Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris Maybe I Can Paint Over That by Guy Clark Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats And Dogs by Brian & Michael Mona Lisa by Matt Monro Painter Song […]
SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT The worlds of art and technology are moving ever closer towards each other. If you have already listened to my audio file interview with Evelin Toledano you will have heard us contemplating whether or not graphic design has now become an accepted art form. In a recent article submitted to https://lanzaroteinformation.co.uk/ […]
When actor Timothy Spall brought to life one of Britain´s favourite artists, painter JMW Turner, in the 2014 film Mr. Turner, he awakened public interest in Margate, a town so often at the centre of Turner´s work. Now, as Spall embarks on another role interpreting the life of another nationally revered artist, the town of […]
At all across the arts we often speak of the synergy between poetry and comedy as one art form often feeds the other. We were pretty amazed though when we discovered more links in the chain: general knowledge and quizzing skills. We discovered this when laughter rang as punch lines were delivered with perfect comic […]
A ´playing out scheme´ recently devised by Alice (not Alex) Ferguson, a young mother, who wanted her own children to be able to play outdoors has produced benefits that surely should not surprise us. Now the scheme has been studied by health experts who suggest that some streets or roads should be closed occasionally to […]
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
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