KRAYZY DAYS OF CRIME IN THE CAPITAL
London had never seen anything quite like the brothers Kray, the sadistic twins who ran a protection empire and palled around with cafe society.
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day 5 of our Sidetracks And Detours LS Lowry festival: SALFORD ARTIST DONE GOOD
“If people call me a Sunday painter, I’m a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week.”
LS Lowry
Day 4 of Sidetracks And Detours´LS Lowry on line Festival to meet MRS LOWRY AND SON.
Artist L. S. Lowry lived with his overbearing mother, Elizabeth, until her death in 1939. Bed-ridden and bitter, Elizabeth tries to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, while never failing to voice her disappointment in him.
day 3 of the Sidetracks And Detours Lowry Festival: L.S. LOWRY: GOING TO THE MATCH
We all know the famous artists whose work sells for millions – Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Pablo Picasso and Jeff Koons (and now Lowry?) to name but a few. It doesn’t take a genius to spot the common denominator – they’re all men.
Day Two of the Sidetracks & Detours L S Lowry Festival 2022:THEATRE AGAINST THE SALFORD SKY
As important as The Lowry Theatre has become as a venue for spectacular events, the manner in which they host t hem is also something of which they should feel very proud. I had the privilege of working at The Lowry as a travelling writing facilitator on a couple of occasions and was always well looked after.hem should
day 1 All Things LS Lowry Festival: BOOTS LIKE EMMYLOU´S + bits & pieces
Don’t miss the rest of our LS Lowry series, starting tomorrow we take a look inside the theatre named after him and continue on Wednesday, when we will be Going To The Match and talking about Damien Hirst on the way. On Thursday we shall watch the film Mrs. Lowry And Son before closing our Festival on Friday by celebrating the arts´s life.
FIONA ROSS joins up Jazz
The Arts are so powerful. They make you feel like anything and everything is possible. I don’t like barriers.
REAL ALE AND GOOD CONVERSATION
´Spencer’s songs came out of a 1970s scene that blurred folk, punk and pub rock, but were grounded in the work of the likes of Woody Guthrie and John Lee Hooker. Between 1974 and 1978, he gigged and recorded with his group, the Louts, then, in 1980, teamed up a collective of musicians who outgrew the Albion Band to become the Home Service. This group represented a major development in folk-rock, and members of it featured in variants of the John Spencer Alternative.
a blur of legs and arms; TWO TONE
Punk had opened the doors for all-girl bands like us. The energy levels on those tours was insane. The Specials would get the audience on stage. Venues just weren’t built for that many people jumping. At one gig on a pier I looked down and I could see the sea beneath the floor. Afterwards there’d be schoolgirl pranks like apple pie beds and water pistols. I was 20. Miranda [Joyce, saxophone] was 16.
I looked away and lost a JEWEL
So, when I turned my head for just a few moments and twenty six years Jewel had crafted for herself a laudable career and achieved a great deal of admirable charity work
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