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FIGHTING TALK:

FIGHTING TALK: by Norman Warwick Gary Hall, former front-man of The Stormkeepers, and subsequently a song-writer and recording artist at Roundtower remains my go to nomination for best British song writer in his genre of all…
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GEORGE ORWELL & Stephen Fry

I would say to Alice that a performance of 1984 at The Royal Exchange Theatre fifteen years ago was perhaps the most harrowing night I have ever spent in a theatre. It was loud in voice and scaring in depiction with some scenes of a violent and sexual nature, in this small theatre in the round.
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KATHY´S SONG for a girl I never knew

One of those songs I loved on the radio was Kathy´s Song by Paul Simon with a beautiful little guitar riff behind lyrics of his yearning for a girl who lived in a different country,
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Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 45 Sunday supplement 24th March 2024

Thanks for turning to us in your search for arts- related news, previews, profiles, interviews and reviews. Today we look at how artists seek the right art space in which to create, We  preview an Easter Production of Jungle Book taking place close to such an art space in the UK. We also bing live jazz lkistings and news of Jazz on Air.
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BOOKS ABOUT TEXAN SONG-WRITERS

he on-line site and newsletter, Texas Monthly, however, reminds us that many Texan songwriters are subjected to the same scrutiny as Townes, each of them, perhaps for different reasons
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT: man, myth and memories

I have a vivid personal memory of an occasion when I was working as a freelance journalist alongside the independent and excellent Stampede Promotions, a small two man operation that pledged the best-but-overlooked American singer-writers to the UK on small tours of some perhaps unlikely places.
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THESE I LOVE at the Octagon, Bolton 2024

Returning to her Lancashire roots, These I Love, is a beautiful journey of discovery - a hymn to Julie’s own working-class childhood in Accrington, to her wonderful dad, and to the healing power of daftness.
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FROM STILL LIFE TO BRIEF ENCOUNTER

Coward later said of the play, "Still Life was the most mature play of the whole series.