ELVIS COSTELLO: seeing himself as a songwriter
It’s how rock and roll works. You take the broken pieces of another thrill and make a brand new toy. That’s what I did
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Entries by Norman Warwick
Sculptor, JASON de CAIRES TAYLOR continues to inspire
I don´t believe that art can exist in isolation. Da Vinci´s Mona Lisa surely speaks in some way, even smiles in some way, to characters in crayon-drawings by five year olds, and the stone horses of The Rising Tide discuss the state of the world with all who ever stop to look at them, in different light and waterscape depending on the time of the day. The work itself surely engages in conversation, even if not in agreement, with the Another Place exhibition / installation placed on the Crosby coastline in the UK by Antony Gormley.
THE FLATLANDERS: Treasure Of Love
To understand the Flatlanders and the unique alchemy that melds the diverse range of Hancock’s mystical panhandle poetry, Ely’s roots-rock drive, and Gilmore’s emotional hillbilly twang, there’s no better document than their currrent album Treasure of Love.
The concluding part (5) of Sidetracks And Detours´ inaugural, annual Here´s To The Ladies in-print festival: NANCI GRIFFITH: A Poetess Among Cowboys
she remained inalterably rooted in Texas
Day four of Sidetracks And Detours´ inaugural Here´s To The Ladies in-print Festival featuring MINNIE DRIVER: ´a no-nonsense conversationalist!
I don’t think there’s actually been a better time for funny female writers, actors, directors…´
day three of Sidetracks And Detours inaugural Here´s To The Ladies in-print Festival 2022. MARTHA WAINWRIGHT: Love Will Be Reborn
´If I leave my children to their own devices, someone will come back with a bloody nose´, she said, grimacing. ´They’re like me and my brother Rufus – we fought a lot, it was very scrappy. I think one of them really needs to hurt the other to learn the lesson´.
Sidetracks And Detours. Here´s To The Ladies 2022, an inaugural in-print festival EMMYLOU HARRIS
In America, it was like the end of innocence, a terrible, horrifying thing. There was a blackness, a cloud over everyone. So when the Beatles came along with their great haircuts and joyful music, it was like the clouds parted, the sun came out and it was all right to be happy and feel innocence again.
Sidetracks And Detours. Here´s To The Ladies 2022, an inaugural in-print festival DIANE WARREN:
“To me it’s like, ‘This is a great song, let’s get it on the radio!’ But it’s like, ‘Well, no, you have to build a story.’ Fuck that. If the Beatles or Prince existed now, I have no idea how that would have worked. They would have had to do TikTok campaigns and if that didn’t work, the label wouldn’t push their music. Who the fuck knows? But it still comes down to an undeniable song. I still believe that.”
The Arts Go MARCHing on in 2022
We have already seen nearly twenty musical events and visited a number of visual arts exhibitions in 2022. We have even followed guided walks and talks to review here in the arts and culture section of Lanzarote Information. Since lockdowns lifted here on Lanzarote many measures and protocols have been eased and the arts (and we who love the arts) have been grateful beneficiaries of those moves.
FROM PIGS TO POETRY AND LITERATURE
So, at the end of a working day with the pigs I would cycle ten miles over to Gloucester, to spend an evening learning French with a student base, mainly, of florid, beautiful girls with their Cheltenham-style accents.
