Two of the folk involved in the Britannia Coconut Dancers and with the Stacksteads Brass Band had invited me to come along ...

A willow uses its soft green tresses to tickle its own reflection in the water A silver stream listens to itself its garbled ...

The edge is a work in progress, with round-the-clock crews building and blasting at the flat man’s whim. Sometimes he wants a ...

The bodies in Babitz’s book, which is subtitled ‘The World, The Flesh, and L.A.’, are usually objects of lust, bitchy ...

Growing up in Liverpool in the late 1960s, and into the 1970s there was always music by you know who, (those four lads) ...

– It occurs to me that sometimes I don’t know what we’re talking about. – We gather information and then we put it in our ...

As he explains, ‘I used AI for the first time; the voice you hear was an audio recording of electric guitar which I then ...

And we all get married in the morning.

Knowing how best to develop your sound as you progress as a band or musician is a conundrum which many musicians do not solve. The best, make significant changes in style while retaining their core ...

This morning I had a browse through the latest issue of “Arcadia: A Journal of Newish Verse” which arrived a few days ago and which I usually ignore because it’s guaranteed to be jam-packed full of ...

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Car tyres on fire in Soweto. I watched the sea glitter with luminescence in the dark near Jamaica. I missed the green flash of the setting sun in Key West ...

The brutal murder of eight Red Cross paramedics and five aid workers in Southern Gaza on March 23rd 2025 – each shot more than twenty times and then buried in a sandpit along with their vehicles – ...