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Brush on Drum: Judy Dyble CD
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Monday, 26 July 2010. BRILLIANT/FiXiT, 2009, CD). So much music fills the air, and I’m still busy growing. 8217; she sings: Dyble’s optimism is heartening. Judy Dyble on the Web. R2 (Rock’n’Reel). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thoughts on music and the other arts, but mostly music. Welcome! Is a companion to my blogs on Sandy Denny. The manufacture of myth. Page to find out more. View my complete profile. Sparks in Electrical Jelly. The Rest Is Noise. Watermark template. Powered by Blogger.
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Brush on Drum: Electric Eden
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Monday, 22 November 2010. ELECTRIC EDEN: UNEARTHING BRITAIN’S VISIONARY MUSIC. ISBN 978-0-571-23752-4 Softcover. 664 pages. German visitors to these shores in 1900 famously referred to England as “the land without music”. Rob Young’s achievement in this superb book is to show how wrong they were. His topic is folk music and its transformations. The result is an alternative cultural history of the twentieth century. R2 (Rock’n’Reel). 28 December 2010 at 11:07. Its an excellent read, though,. I am a writer...
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Helen Lydia Mirren: The Philanthropist (1975)
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Helen Mirren in retrospect. becoming Helen Mirren. Sunday, 16 June 2013. BBC TV, 29 October 1975. Nowadays Christopher Hampton is best known as a screenwriter ( Dangerous Liaisons. Etc) but in the 1970s, along with Tom Stoppard, David Hare and Howard Brenton, he was one of the coming men of British drama. His first play, When Did You Last See My Mother? I’m with Mr Brien on this one. Even allowing for the passage of time and the mutation of taste over the years, this is irksome stuff. Combi...Reviewer wa...
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Sandy Denny: New book!
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Celebrating the pre-eminent singer, and one of the greatest songwriters, of the British folk-rock movement. Tuesday, 23 August 2011. Early news of my forthcoming book about Sandy:. Sandy Denny: Reflections on Her Music. Publication: 7 December 2011. RRP: £9.99. This will be available through all good bookshops, from Amazon UK. Or direct from the publisher. If you see material disappear from this blog or from my website. That’s because it’s in the book. Good news, Philip! Things have surely changed. I lik...
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Brush on Drum: Kirsty MacColl remembered
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Friday, 20 February 2015. When Kirsty MacColl was killed in a speedboat accident off the Mexican coast in December 2000 it was a tragedy not just for the family and friends she left behind but for the wider world as well. At a stroke, we’d lost one of the most original voices in British music of the last thirty years, one who has still not received her due recognition. 1991), the plight of New York’s homeless inspired a collaboration with Johnny Marr, ‘Walking Down Madison’, which also ...As a girl in Cr...
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Brush on Drum: Amy Macdonald
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Saturday, 26 February 2011. Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 25 October 2010. 8220;Most people hate their jobs – I. 8221; says Amy Macdonald, looking out into a mosh-pit of wage-slaves on a Monday night. Coming from anyone else this could sound a tad supercilious, but Amy Macdonald, a straight-talking Glaswegian, is doing what she loves and her enthusiasm is infectious. She recalls performing ‘This Pretty Face’ on Swiss TV in the middle of a beauty pageant. Macdonald couldn’t keep a straig...I never thought muc...
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Brush on Drum: Mary Epworth
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010. I’m a big lifelong subscriber to. So I’m really interested in fringe science and also folklore". Bad female singer-songwriters about, so I sort of ended up resenting all of them". Then she discovered the Shangri-Las, which got her into female singers. But still "if I feel that somebody is kind of similar to me, then I don’t like it sometimes. Because I’m afraid of being too much like them.". Mary Epworth on MySpace. Photo by Andrew Batt. R2 (Rock’n’Reel). The manufacture of myth.
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Brush on Drum: Marianne Faithfull at St Luke's
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Monday, 26 July 2010. Marianne Faithfull at St Luke's. Live at LSO St Luke’s, London, 18 February 2009; broadcast BBC Four, 24 April 2009 (photo by John Chase). Still beautiful at 62, Marianne is in town to promote her new album. Easy Come, Easy Go. She’s recording a TV special before an invited audience and I’m flattered when an invite comes my way. 8217;, the punky ‘Broken English’ and a reconstruction of the original Sixties arrangement of ‘As Tears Go By’. 8220;We’re all still here,” she ...I am a wr...