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 […]
Depending on your demographic, you know, like how old you are, your gender and whereabouts in the world you live, each reader will have a different mental image when asked to think about the phrase ´music festival.´ Perhaps for the younger ones among you and perhaps, too, for the oldest among you, a music festival […]
His name is Tiny Tommy Trotter and he is my new Bolton Wanderers FC mascot sitting here on my all across the arts desk as I write this issue of Sidetracks and Detours. He is the first guy I speak to each morning and we usually end up bemoaning the club´s current plight. Living over […]
The worlds of arts and of medicine do not overlap very often, despite recent interesting developments in the UK such as the Poetry On Prescription scheme and Clinical Commissioning Groups having some monies in their budget available for buying in therapeutic arts interventions to boost individual and communal well-being, Even with these initiatives now fairly […]
The director of the island´s music academy has recently delivered the first opera fully produced on the island, with students, staff and volunteers coming together to perform to more than 500 people at the El Salinero Teatro in the island´s capital city of Arrecife. And only last week Dee and I saw a live performance […]
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