“Seven Nation Army” is a song by American duo The White Stripes. It is the opening track on their fourth studio album, Elephant, and was released in March 2003 as the lead single. Written and produced by Jack White, the song consists of distorted vocals, a simple drumbeat, and a bass-like riff created by playing […]
Abba – The Last Video
You know how you can be pottering through You Tube and suddenly you come across something that has been viewed over 10,000,000 times and yet had totally passed you by. Well that happened to me over the weekend. My recommendation page suggested that I watch ‘Abba – The Last Video’. Intrigued by the screen shot […]
Bridget St. John – Ask Me No Questions
Bridget St John is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for the three albums she recorded between 1969 and 1972 for John Peel’s Dandelion record label. Peel produced her debut album Ask Me No Questions. She also recorded a large number of BBC Radio and Peel Sessions and toured regularly on the British college […]
John Froud – The Man, The Legend!
I met John not long after our arrival in Bradford. As the director of the Zephaniah Trust, based in Shipley, our paths crossed as I sought to make contact with local schools. John is a much-loved visitor (nay legend) to schools across Bradford and beyond, taking regular assemblies to reach more than 10,000 children a […]
Heline – The Finnish Flootist!
Heline is a Finnish flute player. She mainly makes arrangements and covers of known songs, but she also makes some original music every now and then. She first came to my attention when I watched one of her reaction videos on You Tube. She watches videos of other flute players – usually in rock bands […]
Girls’ Generation – Anthology
Girls’ Generation, also known as SNSD (Sonyeo Sidae – literally Generation of Girls ) , are a South Korean group formed by SM Entertainment. The group is composed of eight members: Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona and Seohyun. Originally a nine-piece group, Jessica departed from the group in September 2014. One of the […]
Alexandra Whittingham – Guitar
Yesterday Gerry Cooper showed us how to play blues guitar, today we have some guitar playing of a different order. When I was about 16 I began to learn to play the spanish guitar. I still have trhe guitar and yet still connot play it – such is life. Fear not – today we hear […]
Gerry Cooper – Bluesman
I first met Gerry when he came to play at Live @ Costa in May 2017. Since then he has become something of a regular and being local to us when we lived in Wrose, we have also seen him play at a number of other gigs. He was even one of the irregulars who […]
Judy Dyble – Anthology
Judy Dyble was an English singer-songwriter. Her first band was Judy and The Folkmen (which existed between 1964 and 1966). They made homemade demo recordings, none of which were released, but some are included on a mooted anthology of Dyble’s career, (but the release was cancelled when Sanctuary was taken over by Universal.) She then […]
Sonnets
During this period of lockdown a number of famous actors have chosen to read a Shakespearean Sonnet for our delectation. Indeed Sir Patrick Stewart undertook to read all 154 of the sonnets a day at a time. Others have performed them in support of various projects in order to keep the theatre before the public. […]