Saturday, December 9, 2023

Denny Laine - a brief appreciation

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Musician Denny Laine's death has saddened me as an unembarrassed fan of Wings since the age of 9 when I first heard the classic single &...
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Monday, May 29, 2023

Post-Apocalyptic art rock in Bulverhythe

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‘ Th e Post-Apocalyptic Romance ’ could be a slightly wordy name for a knowing rock band back in the day. It is in fact the name of Daniel H...
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Monday, December 19, 2022

Snakes on the Stage - Rockin The Social

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Snakes, Snakeoil Rattlers, and a folky Scouse sentimentalist shared the bill at What’s Cookin' on Saturday night. It was an even wackier...
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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Midnight Canonball's debut pyrotechnics

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Midnight Canonball’s debut gig was explosive. ‘The New Inn’  in Hadlow Down (East Sussex, England) had opened up a former hotel function roo...
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Saturday, November 26, 2022

Forty years on: Dr Feelgood live, one week before Wilko’s death

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Dr Feelgood are probably the world’s greatest tribute band. Consisting of three members from a 1980s incarnation of the legendary 1970s ban...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Time to talk about the British republic

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In a post-Brexit time of national uncertainty and economic struggle, it’s perhaps logical that the death of the grandmother of the nation sh...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

An affront to parliamentary democracy that produces Truss as PM and Corbyn as Labour leader

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Both main UK political parties have for more than a decade betrayed parliamentary democracy in favour of a US primary-type method for electi...
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