RADIO AND HOT BISCUITS WITH BEWICK
Because I have a jazz friend who works with a club called the Hanoi Jazz Lovers, who has promoted my show to her members, I have quite a following in Vietnam
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AND LARRY YASKIEL IS AWARDED …..
Larry Yaskiel, who founded one of the oldest English-language publications in Spain, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to the British Community in Lanzarote, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, published on Thursday 2 June 2022.
Day 5 of our Ledanear to Song in-print Festival THE ALCHEMY OF CREATIVITY
the best practical and academic advice i have ever been given about the art process was succinct enough to be an acronym (CIP), standing for copy, innovate, practice. I have always felt that if read as Kip, that acronym would imply that not only should we copy, innovate and practice we should sleep perchance to dare to dream
day 4 of our Lendanear To Song in-print Festival: TAKE IT EASY, JACK EASY
Certainly after saying elsewhere on these pages this week that song-writers always seemed to me reluctant to discuss their methodology I have found, in researching Alan Bell´s biographical items on line that he seemed to be the exception to that rule.
Day 3 of our Lendanear To Song in-print Festival: ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
Another song we recorded on that debut album was Doing The Spacewalk, a sweet little love song of three eight line verses with no bridge and no chorus, but with a compelling, driving guitar riff from Colin. We listened to Helen add her gorgeous vocals and told her how grateful we were as she stepped back out of the booth. We nipped back in and immediately begged Dave to distort the hell out of what we had just heard. He added echo and applied fade and fluffers and tweeters and all manner of stuff, until it sounded like Helen was hearing Colin´s lines from across the universe and was repeating them to a life form we had yet to meet.
Day Two of our Lendanear To Song in-print Festival: LENDANEAR to old songs in new settings.
Writing is ‘the destruction of every voice’
Day One of The Lendanear To Song in print Festival presented by Sidetracks And Detours WRITERS FLIPPING FORMATS
in the nineteenth century and early to mid-twentieth century, serialization was an immensely popular form of publishing.
WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO
We are informed by the hard-working Miguel Ferrer, from the press office of The Cabildo that there is a new arts exhibition to be shown from the 3rd June to 27th August.
MIKE GARRY; a poet who knows Mens´ Mournings
I have seen Mike Garry (right) working with students in both primary and secondary schools and have watched him work to the very point of inciting a riot and them creating a thoughtful silence, a period of reflection from the class.
WARREN ZEVON: an assessment of credentials
It is certainly true that wherever you look in the rock and roll hall of fame, you will find there is ´heartbreak spoken here.´! And that is one of the Warren Zevon song titles that shares its name with a book..
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