Deira Diary

I sat down not knowing quite what to expect from a gig at the Union Chapel in Highbury & Islington by  Lau , a band I had only heard ...

“The Church of Man, love, is such a holy place to be,” sung the boy David when he was on a very different planet to the rest of us mere e...

I have been in Jordan for just over 24 hours now. My first proper visit here since 1999. I don’t count the total of 16 hours in Queen Ali...

"I am the state; the state is moi," so, apparently, said Louis 14th. The state in Saudi Arabia is orientated toward the royal f...

I hired a bedu driver from the the Batta’ area of Riyadh to take me 500kms to Qateef and Dammam on the Gulf. I haggled hard to ensure tha...

Last night a five piece bluegrass and “old time” music band played at what has become one of the premier London folk and country venues, ...

Peter Case  is a totally new discovery to me, as was the venue at which he played last night, the Birkbeck Tavern in Leyton, East London....