MUSIC OF THE ELEMENTS
John Fenton, writing for Jazz Local, described Wax / Wane as ´music defying the mundane, an invitation to a better place where gravity is abandoned´.
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Entries by Norman Warwick
… SINGING TWO SONGS FOR US, WE HAVE…
In his 1934 publication, JB Priestly described his journey between Bolton and Manchester as; “the ugliness is so complete that it is almost exhilarating. It challenges you to live there.” These days people from Bolton don’t have rickets but they do have funny bones. Check out Peter Kay (Phoenix Nights and Car Share): Diane Morgan (Cunk) Paddy Mc Guinness (Top Gear), Sophie Willan (Alma’s Not Normal), Sarah Cox (Radio Two DJ), Vernon Kay (TV host). Perhaps its in the waters?I’m married (45 years and counting), with two sons and two beautiful grand-daughters.
JAZZ FOUND NOT GUILTY
JAZZ FOUND NOT GUILTY Norman Warwick hears evidence from Geoffrey Himes Geoffrey Himes has written about pop music on a weekly basis in the Washington Post since 1977, and has been a contributing editor to No Depression magazine since 1998. He has also written about pop music for Rolling Stone, the Oxford American, Musician Magazine, National Public Radio, Crawdaddy, Fi […]
THE OLD SHUDE HILL SOFT SHOE SHUFFLE
I´m told stepping into The Stoller Hall is like nowhere you have ever been before. Built in 2017, (two years I had retired here to Lanzarote) the Hall has been specially engineered to provide a totally immersive experience. Designed as a box within a box, the performance space has very low noise levels and a variable acoustic system, which means audiences can truly hear, feel and almost see the music.
LAWLESS JAZZ AT THE REFORM:THE DIXIE BEATS
So if you are a jazz club looking for a hot band or if you are looking for an entertaining band for an event, party or music venue The Dixie Beats fit the bill.
THE ART OF RECOMMENDATION
Lanzarote Art Gallery is an international art gallery representing more than 35 established and emerging contemporary artists. Register now for priority access to leading artists, exhibitions and events. In the r permanent collection there is a large collection of work, painting, sculpture, and photography, national and international. Come and see us or visit our art space
AN ESSAY AIN´T EASY
Endlessly inventive, intimate, and provocative, this memoir-in-essays is a celebration of the strange and exquisite state of falling in love, whether with a painting or a person, that interweaves incisive commentary on modern life, feminism, art and sex with the author’s own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and past trauma……A Pop Song, indeed
COMMUNICATING WITH CLAUDIE about art
Norman Warwick COMMUNICATING WITH CLAUDIE about art We recently listened to ARTists ARTiculating ART in an article we published on 25th October 2002, that remains in our easy to negotiate archives of more than 750 pieces. Our interviewees included Adriyana Hodge, a photographer then showing a collection called The Secret Places Of Lanzarote, at Julio´s […]
FOLK: MENTEES AND CHARTISTS
still playing in our office,……Moon To Gold by Karla Harris:
VERSES, VOLCANOES AND WIND: exclusive interview with poet Mercedes Minguela
the poem always helps the poet to know himself every day a little more and his readers probably too.
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