Deira Diary

An account of the UK, and the wider (and sometimes much narrower) world that I inhabit

Monday, October 2, 2017

Dubai déjà vu all over again

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I took the Dubai Metro for the first time, past hundreds of towers, many familiar, some not, standing proud like brazen priapic shrines to...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Folkstack Lightnin' fire up The Rodmill

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Folkstack Lightnin’ are a newly-formed electric folk and blues trio, specialising, as their name suggests, in English folk and Americ...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Lessons from Death Row

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“The most precious thing you have is what you cannot hold in your hand” is a paraphrase of something Steve Champion (Adisa Kamara) wrote a...
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Monday, April 24, 2017

Searching for Kelvin Message

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My "Searching for the Old Folk Rebels" project has its own blog page, kicking off with a profile of Kelvin Message, musician, gui...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Jesus & Mary Chain psych out Bexhill

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The Jesus & Mary Chain played Bexhill more than three decades after they launched their career  by provoking a riot in a London squat....
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Saturday, November 5, 2016

The Circle of Trust - Hastings Friendship Group’s second CD launched at Relax

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“Will the Circle be Unbroken?” was the song of solidarity that folkies from another time and another place used to sing. This Hastings mus...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

Al Riach live and dangerous in Crowhurst

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from October 2016 edition of "Crowhurst News", published in East Sussex, England Click on image above to read a larger and, h...
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