Tag Archives: Music

Lets focus on the day job….On life coaching, creativity & the local economy

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

There are very few writers, even those with published work on the shelf, who can say that they earn a living wage solely from that writing. A few articles, the novel-in-progress or in my case the fund-raising anthology don’t pay the mortgage. … Continue reading →

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A ‘me! me!’ meme. Seven things you didn’t know about me..

Posted on February 11, 2012 by

I am not a one for ‘meme’s as a rule. Not because I don’t like them – lists have always fascinated me. As a child there was a ‘Book of Lists’ that came out to a great fanfare (these things … Continue reading →

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Jake Thackray – a genius….. and a genealogist?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Having felt a little in need of cheering up recently and browsing the wonderful Spotify I quite randomly came across The Best of Jake Thackray. His biography describes him as a ‘singer-songwriter in the French tradition’ firmly rooted in the … Continue reading →

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A very merry NoWriggling Christmas!!

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

This time last year I wrote a post wishing all those good enough to give No more wriggling out of writing their time a very merry Christmas, celebrating the fact that I had been blogging for a whole five months. … Continue reading →

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Contemporising Keats – It isn’t all about the words….

Posted on September 3, 2011 by

I have a GoogleAlert which regularly sends me links to items that relate (even obliquely it seems) to John Keats and yesterday it included a link, not only to my recent post Blog infidelity, but to the following video that … Continue reading →

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Wordsworth, Whistler and a Waterloo Sunset – the beauty of London Bridges

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

  The Thames is a river that takes me on imaginative journeys, some of them reflecting my real life and others a dream world that I have inhabited regularly since I left London in the late 1980s. From the Oxfordshire … Continue reading →

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Singing your own song….

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

You’re dreaming. Someone has asked you, a complete novice,  to sing at a festival in front of thousands of people. Live, with a band. What song would you choose to sing in public? (given the necessary vocal talent of course). … Continue reading →

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Gig Review: Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

Blue Grass? Isn’t that a flowery perfume grannies used to wear? Well if you are a music buff no, obviously not. Bluegrass music is a little bit of country, a smattering of folk, a hint of jazz and blues with … Continue reading →

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