more murder on the dancefloor for SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR
But the way that “Murder on the Dancefloor” has delighted people is, I think, a mark of what great pop music can do
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Entries by Norman Warwick
LIVE MUSIC IN LANZAROTE
There were so many musicians and instruments in the group that the jazz world would have called them a Big Band. Like Acatife, reviewed in recent issues of Sidetracks and Detours and PASS IT ON they had perfect control of their diminuendo and crescendo with both voice and instrument.
CORRIE STREET OR KOREAN DRAMA in 2024?
With all that attention comes more investment in Korean TV than ever before
ACATIFE: immortalising the folk-lore
The popular music group Acatife was founded in Villa de Teguise, Lanzarote, in 1983 with the aim of deepening the knowledge and dissemination of the island’s folklore and contributing to its development, with its own contributions.
Sidetracks & Detours present PASS IT ON 34 weekly walkabout Sunday 7th January 2024
Moscow Drug Club, a place where members can ‘have a smoke’, cock-a-snoop at authority, relax in the musical intimacy of its intoxicating atmosphere ‘where the Reds play the blues’.
THE ESSENTIAL EWAN MacCOLL
MacColl collected hundreds of traditional folk songs, including the version of Scarborough Fair later popularised by Simon & Garfunkel, and released dozens of albums with A.L. Lloyd, Peggy Seeger and others, mostly of traditional folk songs.
being GUIDED BY VOICES
I don’t see it as a science because songs come very naturally to me, but I guess it could be. Sometimes I take a lot of time structuring a song and sometimes they feel pretty autobiographical. Sometimes a song can be somewhat of a study on a topic I’m interested in.
ROLL OVER 2023 AND ROCK ON ´24
Hackney Diamonds is worth returning to because of how confident Jagger seems to be throughout—a great shift from A Bigger Bang, where it felt like he was mostly phoning the whole thing in.
I GLORIFY SPOTIFY
Spotify allows me to create playlists of those songs and artists I enjoy. Furthermore folks, it even creates playlists on my behalf based on the searches I have made and my own created lists.
I don´t play his stuff on my playlists,… NO CHANCE
Ed Ames also recorded “Timeless Love”, by Buffy Sainte-Marie, (left) which impresses my hubby because she also wrote Soldier Blue, one of his own favourite songs
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