After the high-octane experience of 150-odd people being served a three course meal, the fabulous pianist Adrean Farrugia started up… Read More
Never Judge… The phrase ‘never judge a book by its cover’ couldn’t have been more appropriate. I was suspicious about… Read More
Folk Club Atmosphere This event felt like an English folk club night. I haven’t been to a folk club in… Read More
The anecdotal information I could gather about The Bad Plus before attending their gig at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club on… Read More
The Event Farewell Michael Holt. The singer-songwriter, classical pianist/composer and cultural activist had a great send off on June 30th.… Read More
It’s hard to forget my first visit to Toronto. I had never been anywhere so cold. I had never been… Read More
I’ve been to more Man gigs over the years than I care to remember but I’ve never seen Man at… Read More
photo by paul, december 2011 On the occasional Friday afternoon between 5 and 7 during 2011 I would drop into… Read More
There’s an open stage with a difference going on halfway down Roncevalles Avenue in Toronto’s mid-west. The first Catweazle Toronto… Read More
The band, all two of them, were dressed in black, grown-up and focussed. The audience was largely, though not exclusively,… Read More
During the course of a recent 39-day trip back to Britain from Canada I found myself in a variety of… Read More
I didn’t go to see the singer-songwriter Colin Hay for the anecdotes. I think the first words he said as… Read More
Last weekend I went to a music festival (the 2009 WOMAD festival at Charlton Park, Wiltshire, UK) for the first… Read More
Like a lot of pubs, the Kings Head at Pebmarsh isn’t a natural music venue. The makeshift performing area is… Read More
The ‘Mela’ is an annual, free 2-day festival held in Peel Park, Bradford. It’s predominantly geared towards asian culture, but… Read More
It’s unusual, not to say unfashionable, to have certain audience members at a gig perform the duties of ‘light monitor’,… Read More
Sometimes it can be overwhelming to be confronted with the entire output of an artist you are not familiar with.… Read More
I entered the room to find people smiling. Introductions had been made and tonight’s performance was about to begin. We… Read More
When a music venue sells Tyrrells Root Vegetable Crisps, it suggests that an above average evening may be in the… Read More
The next time I’m at a dinner party with the high and mighty, listening to the music they’ve just ‘discovered’… Read More
Recently I had an argument with a friend. I was describing a gig I attended where the music was original,… Read More
A few days ago I turned into a fly and landed on the wall at one of Richard Ormrod’s performance… Read More
Earlier this evening I went to hear Al Lindsay play at Kesgrave Music Festival near Ipswich. One song into the… Read More