tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44766998178701787402024-03-06T02:23:15.581+00:00Radio To GoMidlands music stories from Robin Valk. With a side of Radio.Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.comBlogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-19614921758690474022022-06-17T08:32:00.000+01:002022-06-17T08:32:51.993+01:00A Life In Music: John Fell talks Festivals and previews Mostly Jazz, Funk and Soul<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Three days of Funk, Jazz and Soul. Lots of new features this year too.</b></span></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5QkDUtShYTAtZz5FXU4hcXb6xcSoOccmbqwoFECBK6j5mDTugwPysn4hXQ5c0LO7p7Ues1GbNPaIKbfcEJJZwXLehlvbpY8ksOG0OziZ-hR9cT-z-TtVF5_1MGdj5FRss1TadApeEVHzvv0QsZOoprfLoAW_d8EGoZ5ZpkJPFAPzXC8KNS9eyavCWQ/s1209/Mostly%20ahot%20for%20publicity.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1209" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5QkDUtShYTAtZz5FXU4hcXb6xcSoOccmbqwoFECBK6j5mDTugwPysn4hXQ5c0LO7p7Ues1GbNPaIKbfcEJJZwXLehlvbpY8ksOG0OziZ-hR9cT-z-TtVF5_1MGdj5FRss1TadApeEVHzvv0QsZOoprfLoAW_d8EGoZ5ZpkJPFAPzXC8KNS9eyavCWQ/w400-h271/Mostly%20ahot%20for%20publicity.png" width="400" /></a></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Three weeks from now, give or take, Moseley Park will jump to the <strong>Mostly Jazz Funk and Soul Festival</strong> - a three-day event that will bring you exactly that: Jazz, Funk, and Soul. Some stellar acts are booked, and a whole host of up-and-coming and established local acts as well. I have listed some of the main names at the bottom of this post, and there are more in podcast (scroll down) but for full details, head over to <a href="https://mostlyjazz.co.uk/">the MoJazz website</a>, which is pretty comprehensive. </span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial;">There's an awful lot that goes into organising an event like this. I sat down with <strong>Festival Manager John Fell</strong>, to talk about some of the challenges. It's fascinating stuff, and the stories that have emerged over the past two very difficult years are compelling: acts that refused to use the stage entrance... acts that came back the next day because they enjoyed themselves.... embracing the local dance scene, and much more. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxcTS5Vig0P2xvFi-BE2wWqwCVuOr4xdPwvrfXmKnrjJWC3eyVpIeuSYDlOcQ4-Fr2RlGBLNppje7xxLEDmLVPR6u4ZOjea450HoUxpAVvcWOuHMGx1IgyQOK1J1TC_sB3WAPqqKh6xU5NiF7cxY9G3Z3_TrJeI0A05rSUJT06mmJDYTG1Lsy8j8Sqw/s586/Mostly%20sahot%202.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="586" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxcTS5Vig0P2xvFi-BE2wWqwCVuOr4xdPwvrfXmKnrjJWC3eyVpIeuSYDlOcQ4-Fr2RlGBLNppje7xxLEDmLVPR6u4ZOjea450HoUxpAVvcWOuHMGx1IgyQOK1J1TC_sB3WAPqqKh6xU5NiF7cxY9G3Z3_TrJeI0A05rSUJT06mmJDYTG1Lsy8j8Sqw/w400-h249/Mostly%20sahot%202.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I got rather excited about some of the new things that MoJazz are introducing. For the first time, there is some serious engagement with some of Birmingham's best dance outfits, <a href="https://mostlyjazz.co.uk/element/leftfoot-djs/">Leftfoot</a>, for example, running their own stage and playing host to a number of local DJs. You'll see Sam Redmore and Swingamajig as well. <br /><br />On top of that, to my enormous pleasure, they have rather upgraded their food offer, with some of Birmingham's best names. Last year, I had a dahl and samosa combo from <a href="https://www.zindiya.co.uk/">Zindiya</a>, only round the corner from the festival site, which still sticks in the memory. I liked it so much a had it twice. Greedy me. But there are loads of choices - <a href="https://chakana-restaurant.co.uk/">Chakana</a> is new this year, along with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Brummifood/">Brum Mi</a>. And pizza, cocktails, Ice Cream, Waffles, <a href="https://www.boneheaduk.com/">BoneHead</a>... the list goes on. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So I'll see you in a few weeks. In the meantime, here are just a few links to follow. <br /><a href="https://mostlyjazz.co.uk/">https://mostlyjazz.co.uk/</a><br /><a href="https://www.thespecials.com/">https://www.thespecials.com/</a><br /><a href="https://www.cameonation.com/">https://www.cameonation.com/</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatback_Band">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatback_Band</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Charles">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Charles</a><br /><br /></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Podcast</b></span></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/23337875/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" style="border: none;" title="Libsyn Player" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe></b></span></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>A footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcasts come from Jazz monsters </span><strong><a href="https://www.youngpilgrims.co.uk/">Young Pilgrims</a></strong><span>. I asked them for permission to use their work in this podcast series; they said Yes, and this was the result. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>The Lives in Music Podcast series</strong> has been running for over three years now. These are interviews with local musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. To see all the artists, here's a <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com"><strong>link</strong></a> to every episode.<br /><br /></span></p><pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><pre class="western"><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. 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<p> </p>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0Birmingham, UK52.486242999999988 -1.89040123.928315159962025 -37.046651 81.04417084003795 33.265849tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-22809643372918915152021-04-29T23:01:00.001+01:002021-04-30T09:00:24.831+01:00A Life In Music: Joe Broughton. From child prodigy to the peerless UFQ, the Folk Ensemble, and much more. <p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />The Conservatoire Folk ensemble will be back!<br />Power Folk at the Spotted Dog will be back!<br />UFQ will be back!<br />Proper lessons at the Conservatoire will be back!<br /><br /></b></span>... but Lockdown's a bitch, now ain't it?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKHXaMFX6AEd5YXq65CSPdPKJddNnXxstF1XNPaR5aoRnvb79ywi5FxO3sQbRghFMP6QZmGPzYL5Nz9shPJG88DfF7CypvrLvDh1jdvkIy18HZGjDroYaMZjBJD1rTOi0OBtOfy8TIqUx/s783/Folk+Ensemble+for+blog.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="783" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKHXaMFX6AEd5YXq65CSPdPKJddNnXxstF1XNPaR5aoRnvb79ywi5FxO3sQbRghFMP6QZmGPzYL5Nz9shPJG88DfF7CypvrLvDh1jdvkIy18HZGjDroYaMZjBJD1rTOi0OBtOfy8TIqUx/w400-h209/Folk+Ensemble+for+blog.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Joe Broughton</b> is a non-stop phenomenon. From his days on the Folk circuit as a teen prodigy, his ebullient approach: nothing should be passed by, cos you never know what might come up. <br /><br />This podcast is a companion piece to go with Lives In Music podcast Series 3 - the tenth in the series. After which I lie down in a darkened room and plan series 4. The podcast is <b><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/joe-broughton-beating-your-way-through-lockdown">here</a></b>, or you can scroll down and play it off the blog post. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Years and years ago, I navigated the dusty corridors in the old <a href="http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"><b>Birmingham Conservatoire</b></a> building, to write a blog post about the Conservatoire folk ensemble. It was a thrill, ducking and weaving through that old building, getting closer and closer to the explosive NOISE that Joe was whipping up. 50 or 60 students of all shapes and stripes, contributing to an exhilarating blast of music. Now, of course, under lockdown. the Folk Ensemble can't perform. But here's hoping they will, in a year's time. And many's the Conservatoire graduate, now making their way in music, who passionately missed the time they spent with Joe. <br /><br />So, there's been a steady, if exhausting to put together, stream of YouTube work, and you can catch a lot from the Links, which joe sent over. </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH66LtBy2KjtOfah1PrFKDyAs4Fv1ofAZC8_JS3PocXC1z4fMomtRUSEHukQk4I5j9WDlM2l1944lD72Ls7BIDEZnrWp_s4GwbTSxe2wTv_jSCTguwKmlSAuyYybqVIiyyyeYyJr-hTuLz/s2048/JB+with+Ensemble.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1399" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH66LtBy2KjtOfah1PrFKDyAs4Fv1ofAZC8_JS3PocXC1z4fMomtRUSEHukQk4I5j9WDlM2l1944lD72Ls7BIDEZnrWp_s4GwbTSxe2wTv_jSCTguwKmlSAuyYybqVIiyyyeYyJr-hTuLz/s320/JB+with+Ensemble.png" width="320" /></a></div>I've talked to Joe lots, been to several <a href="http://www.theufq.com/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"><b>Urban Folk Quartet</b></a> gigs, caught the Folk Ensemble in person and on YouTube and it's always been a complete pleasure. This is the first podcast he's done with me, and of course, a lot of the chat revolved around lockdown, which has stopped a lot of Joe and co's work in their tracks. It's not all doom and gloom, though – a chat with Joe is always a huge pleasure. <br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Links (largely recommended by Joe)</b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.theufq.com/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"><b>Urban Folk Quartet</b></a><br />More about the </span><a href="http://www.folkensemble.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"><b>Conservatoire Folk Ensemble</b></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://youtu.be/QKzobTCIRDw">Tank and The Bangas on NPR Tiny Desk</a><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/SoPjy6kpi1A"><b>Trimukhi Tala</b></a> </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Clap/ Clap/ Little /Ring /Middle /Clap/ Clap/ Wave/ Clap /Clap/ Wave/</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #030303; font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">UFQ remix from <b>Josh Wunderlich</b>: </span><a href="https://youtu.be/KuBRgbQElV4" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Waterbound</b></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></span><span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9;">Conservatoire Folk Ensemble remix from <b>John Wunderlich</b>: <a href="https://youtu.be/etm6RYMzAXc"><b>Sleep Talk</b></a><br /></span><span style="color: #030303; font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeff Beck</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> live: </span><a href="https://youtu.be/VC02wGj5gPw" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Cause We're Ended as Lovers</b></a> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9;">Bach Cello Suite No 2 in D minor / <a href="https://youtu.be/jqzSq-xOBqs"><b>Paul Tortelier</b></a> <br /></span><span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><b>Joss Stone & Urban Folk Quartet</b> - <b><a href="https://youtu.be/vk9dW22_GLo">Solsbury Hill (Quarantine Live 2020)</a></b></span><span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><br /></span><span style="color: #030303; font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
and most important - <a href="https://theufq.com/ufq-subscription"><b>Support the Urban Folk Quartet</b></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #030303; font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Podcast</b></span></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b>
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</span><br /></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Vo Fletcher</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">who is featured in this series, along with</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Loz Kingsley</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0">here</a></strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">. I asked him for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>The Lives in Music Podcast series</strong> has been running for about two years now. These are interviews with local musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3<br />also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories. To see all the artists, here's a <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com"><strong>link</strong></a> to every episode.<br /><br /></span></p><pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><pre class="western"><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. I then expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts since then, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><br /></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"></h2><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Subscribe</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"> to the </span></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;">mailing list!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div id="mc_embed_signup" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><form action="http://blogspot.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=ef9f6d09fc208f1ad5f15b068&id=d0d91b9332" class="validate" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank"><div class="indicates-required"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="asterisk" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> required field</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Email Address <span class="asterisk">*</span> </label><input class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>First Name </label><input id="mce-FNAME" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Last Name </label><input id="mce-LNAME" name="LNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group input-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email Format</b></span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-0" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="html" /><label>html</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-1" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="text" /><label>text</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-2" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="mobile" /><label>mobile</label></span></li></ul></div><div class="clear" id="mce-responses"></div><div class="clear"><span style="font-family: arial;"><input class="button" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></span></div></form></div></span></pre></span></span></span></span></span></pre><br /><br /></div>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-30353138661559774142021-04-22T22:58:00.001+01:002021-04-25T14:08:15.192+01:00A Life In Music: Stephen Duffy: a proper non-stop music career<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong></strong></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">40 Years of hits. Really. But 'Kiss Me' doesn't go away...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLu9lPWuEvHjE_uA-9H3ZSbmcid69aKBLf32fPVsYANyRnMqlukJlc6KuA2GR3-bZAAqsY0SbNxXuarAw36STBn98f9x1WkN8HSTMq2bSvQrZLgk2HCM7v58OCsIzYCIwkPnawKuJqyKSo/s911/stephen-duffy-2+Square+for+FB+etc.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="911" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLu9lPWuEvHjE_uA-9H3ZSbmcid69aKBLf32fPVsYANyRnMqlukJlc6KuA2GR3-bZAAqsY0SbNxXuarAw36STBn98f9x1WkN8HSTMq2bSvQrZLgk2HCM7v58OCsIzYCIwkPnawKuJqyKSo/s320/stephen-duffy-2+Square+for+FB+etc.jpg" width="320" /></a></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>Stephen Duffy</strong> straddles different genres in a way that few have ever done. He grew up in Birmingham; our conversation is littered with local references covering legendary studios, musos, and people. While still in Birmingham, he scored his first huge success as <strong>Tin Tin</strong>. In due course he went solo as <strong>Stephen Duffy</strong>, and later with his group the <strong>Lilac Time</strong>. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">During that time, he has worked with some of the absolute biggest names in the business. Stephen has a pop past he can't erase – and he doesn't really want to, despite the elegant folk stylings he embraces with the Lilac Time. And he is still cooking up some major new projects.</span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The first half of this chat is a who's who of Birmingham Rock and Pop in the 80s, anyone who knocked around the Birmingham scene then will find much to enjoy. After that, there is a torrent of huge names. And massive, massive success arrived when Stephen was in his 40s... which also seemed to escape us all. But the most fascinating aspect of our chat is how calm, polite and witty Stephen was. It was hugely enjoyable, and I am most grateful. <br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Links</span></b></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Stephen's <a href="http://stephenduffy.com/">website</a> <br /></span></span><a href="Kiss Me (version 2) on YouTube" style="font-family: verdana;">Kiss Me (version 1)</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> on YouTube <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/0kn0F4KrDP0">Kiss Me (version 2)</a> on YouTube<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/KAL1Hs1_t_c">Icing On The Cake</a> on YouTube<br />The monstrously detailed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Duffy">StephenDuffy Wikipedia page</a><br />First result of the Robbie Williams </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">collaboration: <a href="https://youtu.be/PgW5EQZSr84">Radio</a>. A #1 hit. </span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Podcast</b></span><br /></span></p><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from <strong>Vo Fletcher</strong> who is featured in this series, along with <strong>Loz Kingsley</strong>, <strong><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0"> here</a></strong>. I asked him for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>The Lives in Music Podcast series</strong> has been running for about two years now. These are interviews with local musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3<br />also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories. To see all the artists, here's a <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com"><strong>link</strong></a> to every episode.<br /><br /></span></p><pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><pre class="western"><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. I then expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts since then, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><br /></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; 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font-size: large;"><b> A 21st Century Hurdy-Gurdy Man, with a damn good 20th century track record <br /><br /></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhDc_IpVleshioY40cka97AugCoopeNT1XtfxmvZw4DRHsfUF9rnz7LaVRs-8rcxkUNqyqB3TcRKwdBoSm3Ebo1FaaMxwpKejP6cGNW8RVuEfy_M-wfsfVnu6rHEMLfgNgoQF4Z_BvetAo/s453/Mick+with+Guitar.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhDc_IpVleshioY40cka97AugCoopeNT1XtfxmvZw4DRHsfUF9rnz7LaVRs-8rcxkUNqyqB3TcRKwdBoSm3Ebo1FaaMxwpKejP6cGNW8RVuEfy_M-wfsfVnu6rHEMLfgNgoQF4Z_BvetAo/s320/Mick+with+Guitar.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the <b><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mick-howson-rather-more-than-just-the-hurdy-gurdy-man">Lives in Music podcast</a></b> this week: someone who's been key to Birmingham Music History over the past 50+ years. Over that time, he's been in some of the town's top, top bands:
<b>Ricky Cool and the Icebergs</b>, <b>The Destroyers,</b> and <b>Terry and Gerry</b>, just for starters. </span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And
now, if you ever wanted to learn about the <b>Hurdy-Gurdy</b> – a
fantastical ancient stringed instrument – Mick just happens to be a
leading expert. <br /><br />You can jump to the podcast using the link at the top of this page, or simply scroll down, where you'll find it embedded in this blog post. </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Howson tapes<br /><br /></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXxnc1I70_Pu6FRyjQhn5j0NEoYcCPQW-Y16g_BR5rjRK4tl2S5u5pnLs0Xj96ik7QHcho1NGi7nfD9n_IGa5IFYdDxwpDHGt_-Q1Wzb27iNaYrGpI-C5qJEXiSEQxDt_xEB46aRfGmNt/s500/Mick+for+Blogpost.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXxnc1I70_Pu6FRyjQhn5j0NEoYcCPQW-Y16g_BR5rjRK4tl2S5u5pnLs0Xj96ik7QHcho1NGi7nfD9n_IGa5IFYdDxwpDHGt_-Q1Wzb27iNaYrGpI-C5qJEXiSEQxDt_xEB46aRfGmNt/s320/Mick+for+Blogpost.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">M</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ick is meticulous in his approach to music. He also is working hard on documenting some of the powerful work he has been involved in. <br /><br />Of particular interest to 70s veterans are the recordings he made with the late </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Jim Cleary</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span><b style="font-family: verdana;"> </b><span style="font-family: verdana;">It turns out he has a positive stash of these, and other recordings, and, while they are all on cassette or aged reel to reel tape, they are being meticulously and patiently restored by a pal in Cornwall. The pal is also a veteran of the 70 Birmingham music scene: Rod Hudson. They should see the light of day...soon.</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Hurdy Gurdy</span></b><br /><br />There's a clip featuring Mick on Hurdy Gurdy in the podcast, and you can do a lot of research following some of the links below. I think the instrument is a thing of wonder. I've always been fascinated by ancient instruments, but I've never had the gumption to actually go buy one and master it. If you study some of the Destroyers videos, from the Paul Murphy era, you can see Mick bashing away. But while I always loved seeing Mick doing this, it was sometimes difficult to hear his work above the torrent of brass and percussion that the band deployed.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFpu1c443KXG4AW3vEIuEEGEl7NPxyjzOiqWqXAMXbQq1cYnmzFjGTP8aVwzU4k1arOIPoNiM85YXrYiDNZ1dq8UUJ7unqgTDDisUQXrOpS08t1PRfHcGMWiJfboSKzfQX69eoYZENOl5/s799/30172190036_10f946f3b3_c.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="799" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFpu1c443KXG4AW3vEIuEEGEl7NPxyjzOiqWqXAMXbQq1cYnmzFjGTP8aVwzU4k1arOIPoNiM85YXrYiDNZ1dq8UUJ7unqgTDDisUQXrOpS08t1PRfHcGMWiJfboSKzfQX69eoYZENOl5/w640-h392/30172190036_10f946f3b3_c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are hundreds of different types of Hurdy-Gurdys. The instrument evolved differently in different countries, and for different purposes. This very lavish instrument dates from 1764, made by Parisian instrument maker Jean Louvet. Photo Credit: Carlo Raso, on flickr. <br /><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: large;">Links</b><br />Here's the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy-gurdy" style="font-weight: bold;">Hurdy Gurdy Wikipedia page</a>. Exhaustive.<br />Mick currently plays with <a href="https://www.theburdockband.co.uk/" style="font-weight: bold;">The Burdock Band</a>...<br />...and the freshly reformed <a href="http://www.terryandgerry.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Terry and Gerry</a><br />Here's a clip of <a href="https://youtu.be/2BzniBMHL-o">vintage <b>Ricky Cool and the Icebergs</b></a> with Mick on guitar.<br />And here's the <b><a href="https://youtu.be/ayTCKxWvKb4">Destroyers</a></b> with Mick at Moseley Folk in 2012<br />Here's another restored tape (and new video) of <b><a href="https://youtu.be/8tOL-3swSOo">Jim Cleary</a></b><br />And last but not least, Mick's recent release, <b><a href="https://youtu.be/XS0MbOc7Wp8">Dunroamin'</a></b><br /><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Podcast</b></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18021473/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><p class="western"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of the Lives in Music podcast come from <strong>Vo Fletcher</strong> who is featured in this series, along with <strong>Loz Kingsley</strong>, <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0"><strong>here</strong></a>. I asked him for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>The Lives in Music Podcast series</strong> has been running for about two years now. These are interviews with local musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3 also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories. To see all the artists, here's a <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com"><strong>link</strong></a> to every episode.<br /><br /></span></p><pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><pre class="western"><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. I then expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts since then, and of course deleted quite a few. 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiviyPaLbT4l5rJ7nhv8ifTwQF8No6JLqN40Fnn0P2gDjhoH6FDeJub2UGpyn2CiQYXtwGZZPfzDM-BbcbL6mzpBjTgVT9yP-7WMZMkkg2VLDTmglz8wNhd70Q01kZ-Rma4mHzz36LgYUOA/s500/Tom+Hyland.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiviyPaLbT4l5rJ7nhv8ifTwQF8No6JLqN40Fnn0P2gDjhoH6FDeJub2UGpyn2CiQYXtwGZZPfzDM-BbcbL6mzpBjTgVT9yP-7WMZMkkg2VLDTmglz8wNhd70Q01kZ-Rma4mHzz36LgYUOA/s500/Tom+Hyland.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiviyPaLbT4l5rJ7nhv8ifTwQF8No6JLqN40Fnn0P2gDjhoH6FDeJub2UGpyn2CiQYXtwGZZPfzDM-BbcbL6mzpBjTgVT9yP-7WMZMkkg2VLDTmglz8wNhd70Q01kZ-Rma4mHzz36LgYUOA/s500/Tom+Hyland.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiviyPaLbT4l5rJ7nhv8ifTwQF8No6JLqN40Fnn0P2gDjhoH6FDeJub2UGpyn2CiQYXtwGZZPfzDM-BbcbL6mzpBjTgVT9yP-7WMZMkkg2VLDTmglz8wNhd70Q01kZ-Rma4mHzz36LgYUOA/s320/Tom+Hyland.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Tom just doesn't stop. Ever.</b></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some years ago – the thick end of a decade - I first came across </span><strong style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Hyland</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, who was then strutting his guitar stuff with an early version of a now long gone but much-loved band, the </span><strong style="font-size: 12pt;">Alternative Dubstep Orchestra</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">This podcast was recorded as Tom was setting up not one but several projects, from collaborations to solo work, with the help of a very well-subscribed Kickstarter appeal. With the help of tech, people have been working with Tom both in person - socially distanced, or course - and remotely. There are links to some of Tom's co-conspirators a little further down. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I've followed Tom since, first </span><strong style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/2014/04/electric-swing-circus-band-with-plan.html">talking with him</a></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> on the Radio To Go blog about the risky steps of going fully pro with </span><strong style="font-size: 12pt;">Electric Swing Circus</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, as he dove head-first into ElectroSwing. From the band came his Birmingham-based festival, Swingamajig, and a host of collaborations. </span></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And then lockdown hit us, There's a twist to this series of Lives in Music. We're all stuck in lockdown, and so I am asking each guest about how it affects them. Tom has been hugely pro-active and has taken steps forward, from setting up that Crowdfunder to cover costs, to collaborations recorded in a fabled Moseley Birmingham venue which currently can't host music events. Some very interesting approaches seem to be emerging, as you'll hear.<br /><br />A chat with Tom always throws up lots of references. To follow these. best to double-check the companion Radio To go blogpost, which you can find <a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-life-in-music-tom-hyland-currently.html"><strong>here</strong></a>. </span></span></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br /><b>Links</b></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What's Electro Swing when it's at home? Exhaustive answers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_swing" style="font-weight: bold;">here</a><br />Punch The Sky<b> </b><a href="https://www.punchthesky.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">website</a><br />Electric Swing Circus <a href="http://electricswingcircus.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">website</a> with the latest plans<br />Swingamajig<b> <a href="https://swingamajig.co.uk/">website</a> </b>(to be updated for when the festival can resume, but worth a look to get the flavour)<br />Tom's successful and now finished <b><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomesc/tom-esc-the-solo-project">Kickstarter page</a></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Podcast</b></span></span></span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17880248/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe> </span></p><p class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> A footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from </span><strong style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Vo Fletcher</strong><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> who is featured in this series, along with </span><strong style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Loz Kingsley</strong><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> <strong>here</strong></a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">. I asked him for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>The Lives in Music Podcast series</strong> has been running for about two years now. These are interviews with local musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3 also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories. To see all the artists, here's a <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com"><strong>link</strong></a> to every episode.<br /><br /></span></p><pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><pre class="western"><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. I then expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts since then, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><br /></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"></h2><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Subscribe</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"> to the </span></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;">mailing list!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div id="mc_embed_signup" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><form action="http://blogspot.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=ef9f6d09fc208f1ad5f15b068&id=d0d91b9332" class="validate" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank"><div class="indicates-required"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="asterisk" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> required field</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Email Address <span class="asterisk">*</span> </label><input class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>First Name </label><input id="mce-FNAME" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Last Name </label><input id="mce-LNAME" name="LNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group input-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email Format</b></span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-0" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="html" /><label>html</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-1" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="text" /><label>text</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-2" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="mobile" /><label>mobile</label></span></li></ul></div><div class="clear" id="mce-responses"></div><div class="clear"><span style="font-family: arial;"><input class="button" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></form></div></span></pre></span></span></span></span></span></pre>
<p class="western"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-89015195612357041202021-04-01T22:59:00.000+01:002021-04-01T22:59:35.916+01:00A Life In Music: Kris Halpin. Massive obstacles, irrepressible creativity<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A</b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> flat-out refusal to give up and stop, no matter what the obstacles.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="western"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgAkhcHDlCVlUrdSTd7yc5ECDQ-QmmSCbifa6DjPP7DG4yPkQuU7_ZXuf6NMZ-FUn1lhY0y-5YrvPELgTbA4CrDrSW5eQKnkYnzaBZIF_2aBro1O-VJGnXo1gDaEaKwh9-V5z_6cKmqYn/s597/Kris+Cropped+JosefaTorresSMALLER.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgAkhcHDlCVlUrdSTd7yc5ECDQ-QmmSCbifa6DjPP7DG4yPkQuU7_ZXuf6NMZ-FUn1lhY0y-5YrvPELgTbA4CrDrSW5eQKnkYnzaBZIF_2aBro1O-VJGnXo1gDaEaKwh9-V5z_6cKmqYn/s320/Kris+Cropped+JosefaTorresSMALLER.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">Welcome to another edition of Lives in Music. I've been talking on the associated <b>Lives in Music podcast</b> with <b>Kris Halpin</b>, who also trades as <b>Dyskinetic</b>. And the<b> Winter of 82</b>. You can jump to the podcast <b><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/kris-halpin-a-jaw-dropping-conversation">here</a></b>, or scroll down to the embedded player lower down in this post. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">You might be wondering what those things are on his hands? Well, they're <a href="https://www.mimugloves.com/"><b>MiMu Gloves</b></a>: gyroscopically-controlled midi control units that allow users to make music by gesture alone. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">Kris is
known for his work with the MiMu gloves, which were created by <b><a href="http://imogenheap.com/myceliatour.php">Imogen Heap</a></b>. They are
extraordinary things. The initial concept was to allow performers to dispense with musical instruments on stage and to then create a new way of performing. Dramatic? Yes? Impactful? Certainly. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><b>Creativity. Disability.</b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0cs0Y8fyFQjq93UPmoFq9YTHL90Rg0D1-4bLYOlBW4bofZBne9LfCuYnrb4uzTyDdKarpbNrl4SvrQT_BAL5Q3gsjFaS1a3lYCb8eoNeOARIcD3PGlLi0H32daJSAZnr-xrP99xnhG-L0/s526/MiMu+Gloves.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0cs0Y8fyFQjq93UPmoFq9YTHL90Rg0D1-4bLYOlBW4bofZBne9LfCuYnrb4uzTyDdKarpbNrl4SvrQT_BAL5Q3gsjFaS1a3lYCb8eoNeOARIcD3PGlLi0H32daJSAZnr-xrP99xnhG-L0/w320-h320/MiMu+Gloves.png" width="320" /></a></div>But there's another factor that informs Kris and his work, and that is disability. It led Kris to his involvement with the gloves, as he
sensibly pointed out how useful they could be to <a href="https://www.drakemusic.org/"><b>Drake Music</b></a>, who work with Imogen Heap on enabling musicians with disabilities. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">They promptly took him on as an artistic associate to help with their research, specifically with the gloves. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">In this podcast, Kris deals with his
disability – a very serious disability, which absolutely won't go
away - with jaw-dropping openness, and I am hugely grateful. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">But
there's an awful lot more. Kris has a very clear eye on his
situation, and it turned out to be a jaw-dropping conversation. Here's Kris at Abbey Road.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
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<pre class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Lives in Music Podcast </b></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">These are interviews with local musicians, looking at how music has shaped
them throughout their lives. Series 3 also looks hard at how lockdown has had
an impact. There are some lovely stories. </span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">To see who's in the list of artists, here's a </span></span></span></span><span><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-style: normal;"><b>link</b></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to see every episode.
<pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: normal;">One further footnote: the intro and outro guitar flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from <b>Vo Fletcher</b>, who is also featured, with <b>Loz Lozwold (</b>aka<b> Kingsley</b>), in a <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0"><b>podcast</b></a> in this series. I asked Vo for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span><span style="white-space: normal;"><span> <br /></span><br /></span></span><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. I then expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts since then, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><br /></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"></h2><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Subscribe</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"> to the </span></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;">mailing list!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div id="mc_embed_signup" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><form action="http://blogspot.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=ef9f6d09fc208f1ad5f15b068&id=d0d91b9332" class="validate" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank"><div class="indicates-required"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="asterisk" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> required field</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Email Address <span class="asterisk">*</span> </label><input class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>First Name </label><input id="mce-FNAME" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Last Name </label><input id="mce-LNAME" name="LNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group input-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email Format</b></span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-0" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="html" /><label>html</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-1" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="text" /><label>text</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-2" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="mobile" /><label>mobile</label></span></li></ul></div><div class="clear" id="mce-responses"></div><div class="clear"><span style="font-family: arial;"><input class="button" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></span></div></form></div></span></pre>
</span></span></span></span></span></pre>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-27411318376137720462021-03-26T06:32:00.000+00:002021-03-26T06:32:22.450+00:00A Life In Music: Sid Peacock and Ruth Angell - two music worlds collide<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Well, lockdown screwed things up for us all... but there are ways around it.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpUNksyK7DReYdRWrxL-AqeSO1mZ9j0gU9eH-GrzGLTBjJiacaw0ZaKXdfIL3S_txjlBcuhe6ysW6A4HTLKASsa21nwNrb7kjrl_-yzg72fP3I9T-pViVG8Mvjr9Ju9C5bVy84z5Lw_6D/s266/Libsyn+Smiley.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="266" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpUNksyK7DReYdRWrxL-AqeSO1mZ9j0gU9eH-GrzGLTBjJiacaw0ZaKXdfIL3S_txjlBcuhe6ysW6A4HTLKASsa21nwNrb7kjrl_-yzg72fP3I9T-pViVG8Mvjr9Ju9C5bVy84z5Lw_6D/w400-h271/Libsyn+Smiley.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This third series of Lives in Music Podcast doesn't just concentrate on peoples' </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">music journeys. <br /><br />It also has a consistent thread running through everyone's lives: Covid 19, the resultant <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">lockdown, and the effect it's had on people's activities. <br /><br />That said, this has been a springboard to a range of different takes on lockdown creativity. The podcast is out now. You can listen to it <b><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/sid-peacock-and-ruth-angell-a-powerhouse-duo-from-very-different-worlds">here</a></b>, or scroll down the post - it's embedded below. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Lockdown grief</b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I recorded this talk for podcast some eleven months ago, just as Sid </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Peacock's <b>Surge in Spring</b> festival at Cannon Hill, the Midlands Arts Centre, was cancelled as lockdown came down on </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">all our music activities. <br /><br />Much later, I settled down to edit our chat. Sid and Ruth Angell, who make a formidable </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">musical team, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">about what might still be relevant, or even taking place. And it turns out there is a lot. That's because they are, truth be told, absolutely monster musicians, who spend a huge amount of time working across different music genres.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But what shoots though this episode is the to and fro between the two of them: two very different musicians, with very different </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">personalities, and even more different backgrounds, and how they collaborate. It also opens up a fascinating </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">perspective on how some of the musicians in our town work together: it's a veritable list of great players. Over and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">above that, there is the sweet story of how two contrasting and brilliant people met, hung out, and fell in love. <br /><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Two different backgrounds; new music worlds<br /></b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZiFsyjOfwnmjqoGlKqbXciwQZAZQKUOowonh_VuyXoDizubNz2nKbIZmy821uEkquFfTwvcjIdTyjc_flO3CJ2m05ccDT-5cMyYmWylNQKPBsPV-OIr7SJhTJEJsmI2rbK1isb4hAhTVb/s853/Uncle+Hughie.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZiFsyjOfwnmjqoGlKqbXciwQZAZQKUOowonh_VuyXoDizubNz2nKbIZmy821uEkquFfTwvcjIdTyjc_flO3CJ2m05ccDT-5cMyYmWylNQKPBsPV-OIr7SJhTJEJsmI2rbK1isb4hAhTVb/w150-h200/Uncle+Hughie.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Peaceful, settled Derbyshire; stressed and troubled Northern Ireland. Different backgrounds, different cultures. Music thrives and continues to emerge from both places. But the conditions that allow music to flourish are dependent on whether you are actually <b>allowed</b> to create. Sid has a lot to say on this issue. <br /><br />Music pulled these two together, physically at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and much more powerfully and independent from the Conservatoire, creatively. Both Sid and Ruth are contributors to each other's work. The trick is trying to define the range of music they work across - because they cover so much ground.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's a sample of new work from Ruth at the end of the podcast, and here's an example of what Sid can get up to with his Surge orchestra, from 2019:<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /><span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">Links</span><br />Sid's <b><a href="http://surgeorchestra.com/index.html">Surge Orchestra</a></b> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sid and Ruths' band <b><a href="http://peacockangell.com/index.html">Peacock Angell</a></b> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Podcast: Sid and Ruth on Lives in Music </b></span></p> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18281693/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Lives in Music Podcast series </span></b></p><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been doing these for about two years now. These are interviews with local
musicians and music enablers, looking at how music has shaped them throughout
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">their lives. Series 3 also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact.
There are some lovely stories. To see who's in the list of artists, here's a</span> <b style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/livesinmusic">link</a> </b><span style="font-family: verdana;">to
review every episode.</span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: normal;">One further footnote: the intro and outro guitar flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from <b>Vo Fletcher</b>, who is also featured, with <b>Loz Lozwold (</b>aka<b> Kingsley</b>), in a <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0"><b>podcast</b></a> in this series. I asked Vo for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span><span style="white-space: normal;"><span> <br /></span><br /></span></span><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. I then expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts since then, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><br /></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"></h2><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Subscribe</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"> to the </span></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;">mailing list!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div id="mc_embed_signup" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><form action="http://blogspot.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=ef9f6d09fc208f1ad5f15b068&id=d0d91b9332" class="validate" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank"><div class="indicates-required"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="asterisk" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> required field</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Email Address <span class="asterisk">*</span> </label><input class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>First Name </label><input id="mce-FNAME" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Last Name </label><input id="mce-LNAME" name="LNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group input-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email Format</b></span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-0" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="html" /><label>html</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-1" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="text" /><label>text</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-2" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="mobile" /><label>mobile</label></span></li></ul></div><div class="clear" id="mce-responses"></div><div class="clear"><span style="font-family: arial;"><input class="button" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></span></div></form></div></span></pre></div>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-64358705652207775942021-03-18T23:01:00.003+00:002021-03-26T14:52:07.266+00:00A Life In Music: Ross Grant. Around The World In 80 Plays, and lots, lots more<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Taking global collaboration to a new level</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbLshVDGXfyp3dTgm-myjpZvbv_TycfGQVDX-LOwak0zVCc1EW_GPetAYM60-LHrYvrMQ4J_XlwDfOvH_VHKa2Q9UwHTzcVgiWoBrRkME7E0B5Q2ynRPX8ZxsklqYDGZ2lMyjbC_Fk8q9/s381/Ross+6.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbLshVDGXfyp3dTgm-myjpZvbv_TycfGQVDX-LOwak0zVCc1EW_GPetAYM60-LHrYvrMQ4J_XlwDfOvH_VHKa2Q9UwHTzcVgiWoBrRkME7E0B5Q2ynRPX8ZxsklqYDGZ2lMyjbC_Fk8q9/s320/Ross+6.png" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ross Grant</b> is a busy man. A very busy man. I'm going to touch on some of this activities in this post, and you can hear more from the man himself at his <b><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/ross-grant-music-collabs-worldwide-bromyard-folk-fest-moseley-musos-and-an-awful-lot-more">Lives in Music Episode</a></b>, released this week. Or just stay here, and you'll find him towards the end of this blog post. </span><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Let me start with his fantastic current project, <b>Around The World In 80 Plays</b>. There's a link to the YouTube channel below. </span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's a simple idea, but it's also, naturally, a huge amount of work. It also calls for a massive address book, which Ross certainly has. Most of us will have seen those multi-screen YouTube videos where musicians collaborate together at distance. This was a central feature of the Lives in Music episode with <b><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/richard-march-from-pop-will-eat-itself-to-tonight-matthew">Richard March</a></b>, who played on and produced most of the <b>Tonight Matthew</b> videos that gave a lot of people much joy last year in lockdown. <br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">But that series ran to 11 videos in the end. Ross is putting together 80 such collaborations. Musicians worldwide have joined in with him, from brilliant local and European folk players to Ugandan and Malian traditional players and more. The guest player takes central stage, and Ross chimes in with multiple tracks of backing, on fiddle, guitar and lord knows what else. <br /><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">A contacts list to end all contacts lists</span></b><br /><br />To do this sort of thing, you need contacts, and Ross has them. His address book has grown, first through his life-long involvement with the <b>Bromyard Folk Festival</b>, and also through activities like working with <b><a href="http://www.sistemaengland.org.uk/">Sistema England</a></b>, which has taken its inspiration from the spectacular original <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sistema">El Sistema</a></b> in Venezuela, as have hundreds of music organisations worldwide. Given this work, mainly in the Classical field, it's not surprising his address book has grown. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">But that's not the only area where Ross has people to call on. As a boy, Ross benefited from his dad's folk contacts (he was good mates with Ian Campbell), and of course work with the long-established <b>Bromyard Folk Festival</b>, where Ross is now a director.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Planning a major Folk Festival in Lockdown</span><br /></b><br />This year, after a barren lockdown-flattened 2020, the <b>Bromyard Folk Festival</b> returns. It's not necessarily going to be easy, as despite the September 2021 date of 9-12 September, there's still going to be the need for Social Distancing. Quite the challenge. The previous weekend, <b>Moseley Folk</b> in Birmingham will have the same dilemna. At time of writing, Ross's group </span></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.inlaymusic.co.uk/">Inlay</a> </b><span style="font-family: verdana;">will play at Moseley on Sunday.<br /><br />There's more, lots more. But I suggest you give the podcast episode a spin. It was a terrific conversation, and a delight to put together.<br /><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Links</b></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtm5IyKg1AeC_QPzh6NaTkQ">Around The World In 80 plays</a> </b>on YouTube<br />Around the World in 80 Plays <b><a href="https://paypal.me/rossgrantmusic">Tip Jar</a> - </b>show your appreciation!<br />Music Group: Ross plays in <b><a href="http://www.inlaymusic.co.uk/">Inlay</a></b> <br />Going since 1968, the <a href="https://www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk/" style="font-weight: bold;">Bromyard Folk Festival</a><br />Classical Music project </span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.sistemaengland.org.uk/">Sistema England</a><br /><br /></b></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ross Grant on Lives in Music </span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18313910/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe> </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Lives in Music Podcast series </span></b></p><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been doing these for about two years now. These are interviews with local
musicians and music enablers, looking at how music has shaped them throughout
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">their lives. Series 3 also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact.
There are some lovely stories. To see who's in the list of artists, here's a</span> <b style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/livesinmusic">link</a> </b><span style="font-family: verdana;">to
review every episode.</span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: normal;">One further footnote: the intro and outro guitar flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from <b>Vo Fletcher</b>, who is also featured, with <b>Loz Lozwold (</b>aka<b> Kingsley</b>), in a <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0"><b>podcast</b></a> in this series. I asked Vo for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span><span style="white-space: normal;"><span> <br /></span><br /></span></span><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. I then expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts since then, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><br /></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; 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font-size: medium;"><b>Spanish-British fusion: a long distance conversation</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGM8VbwSs889YdfBhMlXlqdFyEwFOw1JWl959d_0d1yHTWg2PTHRQNJ2IL-IayAJ4YH3aIxLDWkxf5t_sxB4dhyklEQLMUa5hU350M-LNwTAI20xQcqAiwHyewOPNzZr0VvO3cVg54Mkrz/s500/Renny+2.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGM8VbwSs889YdfBhMlXlqdFyEwFOw1JWl959d_0d1yHTWg2PTHRQNJ2IL-IayAJ4YH3aIxLDWkxf5t_sxB4dhyklEQLMUa5hU350M-LNwTAI20xQcqAiwHyewOPNzZr0VvO3cVg54Mkrz/s320/Renny+2.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I assembled and edited most of the <b>Lives in Music p</b>odcast episode that accompanies this post on the fifth anniversary of the death of a mutual friend, the great <b>Paul Murphy</b>, who both introduced me to <b>Renny Jackson</b>, and encouraged us both, as he did with everybody he worked with, in our different projects. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">One of the things Paul had me do on his Thursday <b>Song Writers Café</b> nights was to interview each artist about their own creative process. <br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How do songs arrive? </span></b><br /><br />I asked that question of maybe a hundred or more of Paul's guests. I got a different answer each time. Everyone, it turned out, had a different approach. Renny was thoughtful, open and honest.<br /><br />So it was that I talked at length with Renny, who originally came from Birmingham, before he delivered a charming and articulate set on his brief return to the city. <br /><br />To listen to the Lives in Music podcast episode, go <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/renny-jackson-from-birmingham-to-sevilla-0"><b>here</b></a>, or simply scroll down to the bottom of this post. <br /><br /></span></p><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Lockdown</span></b></span></pre><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's a twist to this series of Lives in Music podcasts. We're all stuck in lockdown, and so I am asking each guest about how it affects them. Now, as you'll hear, Renny is now based in <b>Sevilla</b> in Spain, where the oranges come from. And they have hassles too, just like us. In fact, not quite as bad as us, but enough to put a stick in the wheel of new live projects. The two influences come together in Renny's music.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">A 1500 mile conversation</span></b><br /><br />Obviously, we recorded our conversation remotely. This is a step on from Zoom - radio-oriented software, for a start - but it felt absolutely right chatting, in a very personal way, with someone who now lives fifteen hundred miles away. Tech may have messed us all up in its different ways, but little things like software that lets you straddle boundaries certainly help.<br /><br />Renny's take on the lockdown in Spain is an interesting variation on what problems face musicians in the UK. We'll also hear the impact Spain has had on this Brit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Links</span></b></span></pre><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Renny's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rennyjn" style="font-weight: bold;">facebook page</a><br />The River Roots single on <a href="https://youtu.be/CMSrfttD5vg" style="font-weight: bold;">YouTube</a><br />Renny Jackson on<b> <a href="spotify:artist:4upDYXRZTs1hC42UWeljsx">Spotify</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Renny's Lives in Music episode </span></b></span></pre><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Lives in Music Podcast series </span></b></p><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been doing this for about two years now. These are interviews with local
musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3
also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories.
<span style="font-size: small;">
To see who's in the list of artists, here's a <b><a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/livesinmusic">link</a> </b>to see every episode.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">One further footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music come from <b>Vo Fletcher</b>, who is also <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0"><b>featured in this series</b></a>, along with <b>Loz Lozwold</b>. I asked Vo for a bit of live impro, and this was the result.<br /></span><br /></span><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. I then expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts since then, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><br /></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"></h2><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Subscribe</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"> to the </span></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;">mailing list!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div id="mc_embed_signup" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><form action="http://blogspot.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=ef9f6d09fc208f1ad5f15b068&id=d0d91b9332" class="validate" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank"><div class="indicates-required"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="asterisk" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> required field</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Email Address <span class="asterisk">*</span> </label><input class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>First Name </label><input id="mce-FNAME" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Last Name </label><input id="mce-LNAME" name="LNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group input-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email Format</b></span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-0" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="html" /><label>html</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-1" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="text" /><label>text</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-2" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="mobile" /><label>mobile</label></span></li></ul></div><div class="clear" id="mce-responses"></div><div class="clear"><span style="font-family: arial;"><input class="button" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></form></div></span></pre><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span> </p>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-50330148264500142752021-03-05T08:36:00.015+00:002021-03-07T11:20:05.741+00:00A Life in Music: Loz Kingsley and Vo Fletcher. Guitar and Mandolin. And how. <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Definitely a string thing</b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJ-BV6m4S74sKYlQGwFhCWNBy-aHfoY5Chyp2Es7d13rLF2FkGuJwv2S-27TDTM8Z7_JzbBmSkjLFupUM9vveS_u7iVD-1ENlJ3W6Ms8qJgtDH03DCd8iY8cGaNzONoLYuJ2nbTmlSSH-/s1600/Montage.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1600" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJ-BV6m4S74sKYlQGwFhCWNBy-aHfoY5Chyp2Es7d13rLF2FkGuJwv2S-27TDTM8Z7_JzbBmSkjLFupUM9vveS_u7iVD-1ENlJ3W6Ms8qJgtDH03DCd8iY8cGaNzONoLYuJ2nbTmlSSH-/w400-h226/Montage.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In this edition of Lives in Music, I'm talking with</span> <strong style="font-family: verdana;">Loz Kingsley</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;"> and </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Vo Fletcher</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">, Mandolin and Guitar players of great skill and experience. I met this pair, I think, back in 1974, when they were doing a session at the old BRMB Radio. They were no slouches then, and they've only got better since. To listen to the podcast episode, go <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/loz-kingsley-and-vo-fletcher-working-and-playing-together-for-45-years-0"><b>here</b></a>, or simply scroll down to the bottom of this post</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Vo plays with a bewildering number of talented people all over the midlands and beyond, and he gets together with Loz, who only returned to live work with the much-missed </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Rhino and The Ranters</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">, for regular and highly enjoyable sessions in some of the nicest boozers in the region. And of course, having spent nearly a year in lockdown, that's something I have missed enormously. There is some compensation with Vo running (as do many others) a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vo.fletcher"><b>live session on Facebook</b></a> every Tuesday at 6pm.<br /><br /><br />They have, as you might expect, mighty track records, which you'll hear about. There's also some super live guitar and mandolin work to be enjoyed in this episode, along with a taster from Loz's new album, </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Vintage Mandolin</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Links</span></b><br /><br />The Tuxedo Bay <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tuxedo-Bay-103014441663203/" style="font-weight: bold;">Facebook page</a><br />All you ever need to know about <a href="https://jellikins.fandom.com/wiki/Jellikins" style="font-weight: bold;">Jellikins</a><br />Rick Sanders and Vo Fletcher page on <a href="https://www.costadelfolk.co.uk/ric-sanders-and-vo-fletcher/" style="font-weight: bold;">Costa Del Folk</a><br />Vo's weekly <b>Wine O'Clock</b> live sessions: Tuesdays 6pm on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/vo.fletcher">Facebook</a></b> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Albums</b><br /><b>Loz</b>'s album<b> Vintage Mandolin </b>can be had by emailing<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>loz1954@me.com</b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /><b>Vo</b>'s new album is at </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="http://vofletcher.com">vofletcher.com</a></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<b>Vo and Loz's episode of Lives in Music</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/13739072/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe> </span></p><p></p><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Lives in Music Podcast series </span></b>
</span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been doing this for about two years now. These are interviews with local
musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3
also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories.
<span style="font-size: small;">
To see who's in the list of artists, here's a <b><a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/livesinmusic">link</a> </b>to see every episode.</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana; white-space: normal;">One further footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from Vo himself. I asked him for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <br /></span><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through a series of convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. Over the years I expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts in that time, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog<br /><br />Photo credit for Vo Fletcher: <b>Colston Halls</b></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><br /></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"></h2><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Subscribe</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"> to the </span></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;">mailing list!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div id="mc_embed_signup" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><form action="http://blogspot.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=ef9f6d09fc208f1ad5f15b068&id=d0d91b9332" class="validate" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank"><div class="indicates-required"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="asterisk" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> required field</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Email Address <span class="asterisk">*</span> </label><input class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>First Name </label><input id="mce-FNAME" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Last Name </label><input id="mce-LNAME" name="LNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group input-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email Format</b></span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-0" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="html" /><label>html</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-1" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="text" /><label>text</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-2" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="mobile" /><label>mobile</label></span></li></ul></div><div class="clear" id="mce-responses"></div><div class="clear"><span style="font-family: arial;"><input class="button" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></form></div></span></pre><p><br /></p>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-5892118083266638832021-02-26T08:11:00.012+00:002021-02-27T12:45:03.204+00:00A Life in Music: Richard March <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>One way to extend a career built on Pop. Did it really Eat Itself?</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_bDB34evfvySU9J1cIGrJwuVvFE4TKstCLd_LgSlIZckkCa6Z7YGjl3nswEv0FStfvIAfGk1ubL4PNoiQUXDDx8e0O0mdLQS-SiCujb2vlV-Rkmh08lrSHdYJJkXSkiFy7xe8gghdUYc/s548/Richard+March+shot+with+margins.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="356" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_bDB34evfvySU9J1cIGrJwuVvFE4TKstCLd_LgSlIZckkCa6Z7YGjl3nswEv0FStfvIAfGk1ubL4PNoiQUXDDx8e0O0mdLQS-SiCujb2vlV-Rkmh08lrSHdYJJkXSkiFy7xe8gghdUYc/w187-h288/Richard+March+shot+with+margins.png" width="187" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo Credit: Nick Sayers</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a companion blog post to my <b>Lives in Music Podcast </b>with the excellent <b>Richard March</b>. You can find it <b><a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/richard-march-from-pop-will-eat-itself-to-tonight-matthew">here</a></b>, or <b>scroll down</b> to the bottom of this post, or follow this <a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/livesinmusic">link</a> for the entire Lives in Music list.<br /><br />Richard has been in a huge array of bands and projects in his 30
years or so as a working musician. I first met Rich when he was in
the much loved <b>Rhino and The Ranters</b>; but he cut his teeth with 80s
legends <b>Pop Will Eat Itself</b> and then <b>Bentley Rhythm Ace</b>, and now
he's a member of <b>Swampmeat Family Band</b>, and, oh yes, let's not forget
the <b>Boom Operators</b>. with other projects bubbling away nicely. Some of
those projects come up in this podcast. </span>
</span><p></p>
<pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Five years ago, I wrote a Radio To Go <b><a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/2016/01/richard-march.html">blog post</a></b> about
Richard's walking bass saga. His standup double bass
was stolen from outside his house, along with a lot of PA kit. The bass was returned intact – it was found in the street, unlike the
stolen kit. In short order a fundraiser was launched to help Rich
replace everything.
</span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It hit its target very promptly, which let Rich replace at least his PA kit, with the
remaining £400 going to <b><a href="https://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/">Nordhoff Robbins</a></b>, the music charity. These guys could
not be better - as it says on their site, they use music to 'enrich the lives of people
with life-limiting illness, disabilities of feelings of isolation'. </span></pre><pre class="western"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></pre><pre class="western"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Coping with our Covid nightmare lockdown. Ugh...</b></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">This podcast post covers very different ground, the likes of which we could not
have imagined in 2016. Most of this series of Lives in Music was recorded remotely,
in lockdown. If you listen hard, you can tell who has, by far, the poshest
microphone. <br /><br />I'm particularly interested in how creativity can flourish in lockdown, and we touch
on all sorts of ways that performers can hit their audiences. We cover some of the
ways – largely on YouTube. At the bottom of this post, I've I listed quite a few
examples that you can go see and enjoy. </span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Tonight Matthew colabs</span></b>
<span style="font-size: small;">I used two excerpts in the podcast, taken from the collaborative videos in the
Tonight Matthew series, where Richard and pals covered Sex and Drugs and Rock
and Roll, and Life During Wartime. To check out the full personnel, search these
titles on YouTube. The series has raised some £5000 for <a href="https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/"><b>Help Musicians</b></a> – another
great cause. Why not look in and bung them a few quid?</span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Videos </b></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">First off, here's links to the <b>Tonight Matthew </b>series, with Rich on guitar or bass
on all of them:
<br />Good Morning Britain </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO8trboFpo4"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO8trboFpo4</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Mr Blue Sky </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZcKnRRrghQ"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZcKnRRrghQ</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Life During Wartime </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA4Te8xEWfg"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA4Te8xEWfg</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM6C2CunuRc"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM6C2CunuRc</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Blue Monday </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PgHG2g315k"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PgHG2g315k</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Echo Beach </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0SxQQ1kIO0"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0SxQQ1kIO0</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Another Girl Another Planet </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuztPWamE-k"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuztPWamE-k</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Love Cats </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkt3fGDg6-4"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkt3fGDg6-4</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Our Lips Are Sealed </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y034nUVqfLc"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y034nUVqfLc</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Another Girl Another Planet </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA06fj76yDo"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA06fj76yDo</span></a></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">For What It's Worth </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-1xGIvfsA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-1xGIvfsA</a></span></u></span></span></span></pre>Then there's others. More than I can list. But anyway, here's some suggestions
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Suzi Dian</b> doing <b>Bill Withers</b>' Lean on Me <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/abigail.kelsey.10/posts/10163218464375564">solo</a></b> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">and with </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/aliclintonofficial/videos/2431689033597321" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>some friends</b></a></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">The life-affirming <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqzkn-jX-JU">Bolero</a> </b>from <b>Juilliard</b> students and alumni
</span>
<b>Peter Gabriel</b> and friends worldwide reprising <a href="https://youtu.be/jWNEr4eHL18"><b>Biko</b></a>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jimi Somerville</b> and <b>Rick Astley</b> <a href="https://youtu.be/eRfZH0CQ2LE" style="font-weight: bold;">Wishing You Well</a>, also for<b> </b><b><a href="https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/">Help Musicians</a></b></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">The great <b>Vo Fletcher</b> does weekly live shows on his <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=vo%20fletcher">Facebook Page</a></b></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'll stop there. I know there's a lot more, and I apologise if I've missed anyone out.
But if you have any recommendations, drop me a line in the comments section :-)<br /><br /><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">This week's episode</span></b></span></pre>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Lives in Music Podcast series </span></b>
</span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been doing this for about two years now. These are interviews with local
musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3
also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories.
<span style="font-size: small;">
To see who's in the series of artists, here's a <b><a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/livesinmusic">link to see every episode</a></b>.
<pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana; white-space: normal;">One further footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from Vo himself. I asked him for a bit of live impro, and this was the result. </span><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <br /></span><br /></span><p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Radio To Go blog</b></span></span></p><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This blog has been going since 2007. I started it to focus mainly on radio stories, as the industry went through a series of convulsive changes. Those changes aren't over yet, not by a long chalk. Over the years I expanded the range of topics to cover local music, another subject close to my heart. I think it was a Destroyers gig that pulled me in that direction. I've banged out several hundred posts in that time, and of course deleted quite a few. But if you're interested in thoughts on the local scene and/or radio futures, by all means visit the <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">full topic index</a></b> on the Radio To Go blog.<br /><br /></span></span></pre></span></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"></h2><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Subscribe</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"> to the </span></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;">mailing list!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div id="mc_embed_signup" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><form action="http://blogspot.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=ef9f6d09fc208f1ad5f15b068&id=d0d91b9332" class="validate" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank"><div class="indicates-required"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="asterisk" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> required field</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Email Address <span class="asterisk">*</span> </label><input class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>First Name </label><input id="mce-FNAME" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Last Name </label><input id="mce-LNAME" name="LNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group input-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email Format</b></span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-0" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="html" /><label>html</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-1" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="text" /><label>text</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-2" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="mobile" /><label>mobile</label></span></li></ul></div><div class="clear" id="mce-responses"></div><div class="clear"><span style="font-family: arial;"><input class="button" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></span></div></form></div><br /><br /></span>
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</pre>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-89349105490533527752021-01-20T14:26:00.006+00:002021-01-25T11:49:22.998+00:00New ways out of lockdown. You can't keep good musos down<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm prepping </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lives in Music </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Podcast </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Series 3</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">. It's different now.</span></span></b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVE6GelJMoUldpYm1WjIHHVQQOsZhRBK-ssH093LB7PjIMOTdNvijyuY5Kf7km47RxPBJhey8RGZ4GgoWXosM6EFBXdVONVWWr31Bm0OClJURFvCiWBlw6rDwoIsc95_opg8Fu3oW-Mfy/s640/lockdown-5130295_640.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVE6GelJMoUldpYm1WjIHHVQQOsZhRBK-ssH093LB7PjIMOTdNvijyuY5Kf7km47RxPBJhey8RGZ4GgoWXosM6EFBXdVONVWWr31Bm0OClJURFvCiWBlw6rDwoIsc95_opg8Fu3oW-Mfy/s320/lockdown-5130295_640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I must start with an
apology. I've been quiet on the podcast front. There's a number or
reasons for this, obvious and not so obvious.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Our gig scene has been
squashed flat.</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Firstly: we've lost our live music scene.
This breaks my heart. One of my great pleasures is to settle in for a
night of stonking live music, joining friends and like-minded souls in a
warm and welcoming space, with a pint or something stronger to hand. And then
the show starts, and I'm carried away by great musicianship. It can
be, rarely, in an enormodome. But I prefer smaller venues, where you
can relate to the artist. I especially prefer the smallest venues, where it all starts. I've been in pub rooms with a few
dozen kindred souls, and I've had unforgettable nights. I miss
that so much. <br /><br />So it's been difficult to document
those golden live moments, when... there haven’t been any. I’ve had a lot less to write about. I've also had to scrap some very
pertinent interviews with venue owners. I'll hopefully revisit these when we can get out and about again.
</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Face to face chats?
Forget it.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Secondly, lockdown or no lockdown, I'm under strict
instructions to respect those six feet spaces, and in any case to cut
contact down to an absolute minimum. It's, I'm afraid, a health
issue, and it's definitely got in the way of producing podcasts.
<br /><br />For me, the essence of getting a great interview is to share
space, to have eye contact, to have an intimate connection. I've been
used to travelling across town, hooking up a mic to my subject, and
diving into a long conversation, which finds its way into the
finished podcast episode. That is no more, for the time being. <br /><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Live
performances online? I'm grateful, but it's not the same.</b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I
follow a lot of people online. I check out their streamed live shows.
I'm glad to see them, and I hope that their work generates some
revenue. But typing a helpful message of support into Facebook is the
only way we can react. The artists can't hear our denatured applause.
The compromise of streaming a gig with a live audience – if that
can be managed – is the best we have right now.
</span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Those multi-artist remote compilations. Love them.</b></span></div>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">An alternative, and one
that I very much enjoy, is the very produced multi-artist
compilation. These work, sometimes to great effect, but it's a
different confection. The artists must work to a basic track for
timing purposes, so the result is, inevitably, produced. In an
upcoming </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">series 3 </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">podcast, I go though this in some detail. But
there have been some extraordinary work coming our way, which would
not otherwise have surfaced at all. </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A way forward. Soon come:
Lives in Music Series 3.</b></span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now I've surfed
back to the working world – long story - I've settled on a
new way of working. It's a compromise, but it lets me get back to doing podcasts with musicians, which I love to do. I'm using software which lets me invite my
subject to chat to me remotely though their computer. Think Zoom, but
with better bandwidth and no time lag. It's the same kind of software that's in use
at Radio – you can tell it's that kind of software, because, every
so often, the remote link goes down, embarrassingly.</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So now I'm back in business. I'm recording lots of
chats, and then diving headlong into post-production. I hope very
much to start releasing the new series by the end of February.<br /><br />It's
good to be working on this series, especially as I want to focus as
much as I can on how musicians have broken through this new set of
wholly unfair barriers. Let's see how everyone is doing!<br /><br /><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Lives in Music Podcast</span></b></span></pre><pre class="western"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been doing this for about fifteen months now. These are interviews with local
musicians, covering how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3
also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories.
<span style="font-size: small;">
To review the list of artists, here's a <b><a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/livesinmusic">link</a></b>. </span></span></pre></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">See more <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.co.uk/p/contents-grouped.html#broadcast">radio and broadcasting</a></b> posts on Radio To Go</span></h3></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" /></a><br /></span><h2></h2><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Subscribe</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"> to the </span></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;">mailing list!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div id="mc_embed_signup"><form action="http://blogspot.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=ef9f6d09fc208f1ad5f15b068&id=d0d91b9332" class="validate" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank"><div class="indicates-required"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="asterisk" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> required field</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Email Address <span class="asterisk">*</span> </label><input class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>First Name </label><input id="mce-FNAME" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><label>Last Name </label><input id="mce-LNAME" name="LNAME" type="text" value="" /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mc-field-group input-group"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Email Format</b></span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-0" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="html" /><label>html</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-1" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="text" /><label>text</label></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><input id="mce-EMAILTYPE-2" name="EMAILTYPE" type="radio" value="mobile" /><label>mobile</label></span></li></ul></div><div class="clear" id="mce-responses"></div><div class="clear"><span style="font-family: arial;"><input class="button" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></span></div></form></div><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p></div>Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-44132869309337268022020-12-06T12:13:00.004+00:002020-12-07T15:24:12.170+00:00Two questions: Lockdown creativity, and when do bands turn into their own tribute acts? <h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Covid-19 and creativity</span></h1><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rgXJc-71TySdXDkki5lpBH72YRBE6i_62Kv5oAck_wbQiaUy03vqu5ksN_EUc9LOIH4MuG5attXO0PYFW9iYHOAQBgQXri9JoeFy19ujyQQS0r7jX4_9I8KqO-zCezlQMP1wRM5SdnFY/s640/corona-4933453_640.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="640" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rgXJc-71TySdXDkki5lpBH72YRBE6i_62Kv5oAck_wbQiaUy03vqu5ksN_EUc9LOIH4MuG5attXO0PYFW9iYHOAQBgQXri9JoeFy19ujyQQS0r7jX4_9I8KqO-zCezlQMP1wRM5SdnFY/w400-h208/corona-4933453_640.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">For
most of the lifetime of this blog, I've managed to post pretty
regularly. Sometimes weekly, maybe more like a monthly average over
the years. But I've had to be quiet of late. Like the local music
scene, I've been squashed flat. Let me explain... </span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This blog
is, mainly, about local music and musicians, with occasional
diversions into radio. And it's been very difficult to write about
the local music scene when it's been trashed by lockdown. I don't see a
recovery coming our way for at least another six months. But, oh boy,
will it ever be bloody marvellous when it comes back, in all its
glory.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Distractions and dysfunction</span></h1>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There
are personal as well as practical reasons for my inactivity. At the
start of lockdown, I plunged head-first into a massively complex and
demanding database project for the excellent <a href="https://onlineradiobox.com/fi/classic/"><b>Radio Classic</b></a> in
Tampere, Finland. Sadly, I didn't go over there – all flights were
cancelled during lockdown. That took me through to mid-summer, as I
watched our local scene suffer. Along the way, I had to scrap three
fine Podcast interviews I had collected with promoters and venue
managers, who suddenly had no venues or gigs to work on.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By
the time I surfaced from the Finland work, you could forget about gigs. Podcast interviews were out, too, especially for me - I'm
one of those rather vulnerable at-risk types. Then, things got scary. I had
some serious health issues - not Covid, by the way - as summer shaded into autumn. Thankfully,
most of them are in hand now, and I'm feeling more like a human being
again.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Mojo
partially back at last, I am tiptoeing back to music. I've followed a
ton of live streams, some of which have been absolutely
inspirational. I've also enjoyed those multi-muso collaborations –
check out the 'Tonight Matthew...' series. Here's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamesatkinmusic/videos/709613279668576"><b>one</b></a>.
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Or how about this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqzkn-jX-JU"><b>sensational compilation</b></a> of former and current
students from the <b>Juilliard School</b> in New York</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">?</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fresh air and a working brain... at last!</span></h1>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">But
it's only been very recently that I've felt clear-headed enough to
take some recent albums and work my way through them. One of them
isn't exactly that recent either. I was in Banbury in early March,
just before lockdown, to catch up with <b>Dave Pegg</b> of <b>Fairport
Convention</b> – the podcast is <a href="https://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario"><b>here</b></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.
Dave kindly gave me a copy of the band's latest album, <b>Shuffle and Go</b>
– it's their 29</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">th</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
album. Not bad going for a band that's been going since 1967. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">I
finally listened this morning. Gloriously, Fairport are still fresh,
experimenting, trying new things, and generally enjoying themselves. They have a loyal fanbase; fans gather each year at Cropredy, the band’s festival
(obviously not this year), where, of course, the band will reprise
old material.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Who are you making music for?</span></h1>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And
that is an interesting conflict. Diehard Fairport fans will clamour
for the old material, songs like 'Meet On The Ledge', and some of the
vintage Jigs and Reels. But I’m not sure how much the current
Fairport still enjoy doing material that their predecessors have been
doing for forty or fifty years, even if some members (Peggy, Simon
Nicol) have been there for pretty much the whole time. It helps to
pay the bills; people love the hits. But do the band still love the
very old material, especially given that along with the regulars,
there's also lots of new blood?</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Turning into your own tribute act</span></h1><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Look
at it this way: when do longstanding acts turn into their own tribute
bands? In Fairport's case, probably never on record, but you might
well see them pay tribute to their illustrious past at Cropredy. I
would suggest that The <b>Stones </b>and what's left of <b>Status Quo</b>, <b>Queen</b> and
<b>AC/DC</b> are already there. The example set by <b>Robert Plant</b> over the years, most recently with his admirable <b>Saving Grace </b>project, tells me that Led Zeppelin will never go there,
no matter how much money is waved at them.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Or
consider the brilliant <b>Bruce Hornsby</b>. Does he have to play ‘The Way
It Is’ at each gig? Well, his audience may well want him to, but he’s
going way beyond all that. He's never stopped experimenting, and
gloriously, he is not alone.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Nostalgia pays</span></h1><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
side of the coin, however, is the revival of 80s and 90s acts, who
are being rediscovered by their original and newer audiences.
Locally, <b>Pop Will Eat Itself</b>, <b>Bentley Rhythm Ace</b>, <b>Ocean Colour Scene</b>,
and <b>The Wonder Stuff</b>, among others, benefited from this trend before
lockdown, and will surely return when all this is over. I'm willing
to bet that, unlike the Stones and their ilk, none of these bands did
more than make a fair living in their heyday; many of them probably
not even that. And now that Spotify has ripped the possibility of
long-term earnings away, this route is a decent way to go. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I
also think that this issue shows up the brutal contrast between local
scenes, as perky and vibrant as they may be, and the big business end
of music. All Spotify and the other streamers want now is to build
numbers any way they can. That very much favours the long-standing
veterans, as well as the flashiest of newcomers. The long-standing
veterans generate the numbers from their back catalogue; the newbies
from their notoriety. I'm willing to bet that despite her party
people negative publicity, Rita Ora's streaming numbers are up. But
right now, the local scene can, as usual, hardly get a shout out, and
that, too, filters back into streaming figures.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When this is over, I'll find you and hug you</span></h1>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What
a mess. I can't wait for all this to be over. I dream of sitting in a
boozer, pint in front of me, surrounded by friends, taking in
something fine, sparky and inventive. How about you?</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">See more <b><a href="http://radiotogo.blogspot.co.uk/p/contents-grouped.html#broadcast">radio and broadcasting</a></b> posts on Radio To Go</span></h3></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">________________________________________________________________________</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYL1FdcMQpxPa8EVOkrndhnZLk0nMf_IVQ82UJvljmkRZfIMYl6bUnAw3RXSqkRuEPRYRDFZS1jwH7XHQrswQ5LJtkyMRzh8frq9N8dsP3DtvyRjUb0LGRlPpFZPZ75SoFo7yjHh1SQXq/s1600/SmallThumbRTGlogo.gif" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span>Well, we all knew lockdown was going to be weird...</span></h3><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSu_Pcqr6okklY2UwjkvNfIWpgm_R80u-e8ufp_5PrGl12Dx0KbiUa4k1SVZi6UFTIT0YV9vczl5bZElaumyEFWfLxl76_o-X4cXUncT13DIaCDgj4uD3BRS4Jzn1ugHf5nsgXE275fqO5/s1600/acoustic-band-bass-blur-306081.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1600" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSu_Pcqr6okklY2UwjkvNfIWpgm_R80u-e8ufp_5PrGl12Dx0KbiUa4k1SVZi6UFTIT0YV9vczl5bZElaumyEFWfLxl76_o-X4cXUncT13DIaCDgj4uD3BRS4Jzn1ugHf5nsgXE275fqO5/s400/acoustic-band-bass-blur-306081.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fortunately for
me, a project dropped into my lap in March, and it kept me very
busy for months. I am only now rocking gently in my backwater,
blinking, looking around, thinking of other projects. <br /><br />With projects, I always go in too deep. This was no different. But oh, was it ever
fascinating. <br /><br />Some background first. For much of my time in radio, I have been
gainfully employed sorting out other people's programming disasters,
the ones that crop up in music scheduling and database systems.<br /><br /></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">The programming beast </span></h3>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
leading system I've worked in is, still, <b>RCS GSelector</b>, along with its RCS predecessors. If you're a fan, it's a
splendid beast. But with all such systems, it's easy to paint
yourself into a corner. You need decent music nous, allied to
geekiness and tenacity. It's a tricky balance. Too much geekiness
squeezes out on-air spontaneity. <br /><br />The thinking behind computer
music scheduling is, I find, often shared by musicians. Their shows
are planned out: sets kick off with bangers, new material is nicely
balanced, there's a flow built in, and the audience goes on a
journey. Even when set lists are starting points rather than a rigid
show structure, the same principles apply. If you know your stuff and
your audience, you don't need a fixed safety net, either at radio or
onstage. And that's as far as I'm going with that particular debate. </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">The work</span></h3><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My cleanup work has taken me all over the UK and Europe.
Often, one job has led to another; other times I have been put forward by much appreciated colleagues. It's been a lovely, magic
carpet ride. But <b>Covid19</b> has put an end to flying off to distant
lands; now it's <b>Zoom meetings</b> and distance work. <br /><br />I'm happy to
work in any music format: the fundamentals, be they in Pop, Rock or
Classical, are the same. Seriously, they really are, even while
library sizes and presenter freedom <span lang="">vary</span>
enormously. Personally, I prefer a deep library in a station that
values its presenters for their knowledge, but that's just my
taste.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">The Classical differences</span></h3><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But Classical? Well, there are differences. Tricky ones. Take durations for a start: Classical music radio is not the home
of the 3'30” pop edit. Amazing works of 15 minutes and longer are
common; you simply can't do without them. The 'bleeding chunks'
debate - chopping out moments from Concerti or Symphonies -
continues. Now, I love a complete work, an entire opera, a splendid
soloist delivering fireworks to an audience... when I'm <b>in </b>that
audience. But music radio doesn't work that way; instead, it offers a
flow of music to take with you while you go about your day. Radio is
rarely an 'appointment to listen' medium; you can now listen again
with ease. So that's two challenges right there. <br /><br />I've worked
on Classical databases four times now: firstly in Ireland with the
splendid <b>RTE Lyric FM</b>, where more than half the personnel were active
musicians. Later came <b>Bartok Radio</b> in Budapest, and more recently
pre-launch setup work at <b>Scala Radio</b> in London. And the most recent
project, with all the Zooming and remote working, was for <b>Radio
Classic</b> in Finland.<br /><br />My job was to tidy up a messy database and
set it up in GSelector before handing it back to the local team to
take it onward. I won't go into all the gory details, but every
conceivable data entry mistake was there... it was a tangle.
</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">Mind your Language!</span></h3>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
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</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">areas were the use of
language, and the local market. Finland values its culture and
identity. It supports the arts: national and regional orchestras are
properly funded, unlike in the UK. </span><span lang="" style="font-family: verdana;">It's
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">admirable; I so wish we
</span><span lang="" style="font-family: verdana;">took </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">this
approach with the Arts in general, and music in particular. I also wish we had Finland's admirably low
Covid19 infection rates</span><span lang="" style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From
a population of less than 6 million, Finland exports a steady and
impressive flow of talent: the first two conductors to follow <b>Simon
Rattle</b> when he left the <b>CBSO</b> came from Finland; one of them now
splits his duties between orchestras in Los Angeles, San Francisco
and London. <br /><br />Of course there <span lang="">we</span>re
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wasn't familiar with; with these, the plan is for the Radio Classic
team to strike the right balance. And that's the proper approach:
radio has to reflect its locality, be it national or regional.
Dumping a generic format onto a station is cheap; it directly affects
the bottom line, but it may not build audiences. We often hear of
'MacDonalds Radio' in this context, but in truth, even that giant
corporation goes to great lengths to cater for local markets. And
it's worth pointing out that Classic Radio Finland are part of <b>Bauer
Media</b>, who, admirably, have given their station free rein to develop
as they see fit. It's easy to jump to conclusions about massive
corporate radio groups, but those conclusions are not always spot-on.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So
– back to the Classical job. How to describe a work? What language
do you use? Do you say the <b>Magic Flute</b>? Or the original <b>Die
Zauberflote</b>? Or the Finnish <b>Taikahuilu</b>? <b>Verdi</b> was, I am told,
passionately in favour of works being sung in the language of the
country where the performance was taking place. But, with works and
orchestras in at least six languages, this aspect was increasingly
complex.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">The Web. Upending things. Again. Everywhere.</span></h3><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In working through the Radio Classic library,
something else struck me: just how much emphasis has moved away from
tradition and towards powerful performances. I contrasted an opera
aria from a revered Finnish veteran, recorded in the 60s, with a
fresh recording of the same piece by a contemporary superstar. The
difference was extraordinary. The veteran was polite, formal and
understated. The superstar was showy and explosive. That, change, in
my view, has been driven by opera houses and orchestras competing
online to deliver more of an experience to a wider audience, the more
so because a lot of their work is now filmed and distributed either
live or as special cinematic events. The days of 19<sup>th</sup>
century polite salon performances of music designed to be played at
home, once all the rage, are long gone. As elsewhere, the web has had
its way, and we are now in the world of short-term spectacle.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">Bottom line, as usual: what matters, and to whom?</span></h3><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
initial clean-up task completed, Radio Classic are now up and
running. What are the next steps? Many classical stations embrace
<b>movie soundtracks</b>; others rush to programme contemporary 'mindful'
piano work from the likes of <b>Ludovico Einaudi</b>; still others
incorporate <b>gaming music</b>, written for teenagers and young adults,
into their output. Gaming companies are now so flush with cash that
they can afford to hire entire orchestras to record their material –
but I'm really not sure that an orchestra's playing qualifies a piece
of music for use in Classical radio. It's a sliding scale of age
appeal, which doesn't tempt me, but then I am very aged. That said, I
can't say I'm exactly a purist either. The big question is to recognise the
demands of the market, as I mentioned earlier. <br /><br />My personal view?
The great works are there because they have found their place over
decades and centuries. That timescale means things change slowly; it's
the complete opposite of pop. Recordings of individual Classical
works may not generate huge sales figures, but that's partly because
there are often literally hundreds of different versions of the same
work available to the listener. Therefore popularity has to be
measured in a different way; chart sales, downloads and influencer-driven
YouTube views don't work in this arena. The picture is further
muddied by a combination of stuffy conservatism in the classical
industry itself, and the shift to showier, flashier performances that
new technology has fostered, as mentioned earlier. <br /><br />It's
never easy. But right now, my best wishes go to the good folk at
Radio Classic Finland, who are now navigating these tricky waters. I
think they'll do just fine. You can, of course, listen to them here: </span><a href="https://radioplay.fi/radio-classic/"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>https://radioplay.fi/radio-classic/</b></span></a></p>
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Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-2740649602354059312020-03-27T08:15:00.002+00:002021-02-27T10:48:22.842+00:00A Life In Music: Simon Duggal (not forgetting brother Diamond Duggal)<h3>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Simon Duggal</b>, with his brother <b>Diamond Duggal</b>, is a hugely influential producer, promoter and now record label manager. They may not be that well known to you, but they work worldwide across as many genres as they can handle. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Like <b>Ruby Turner</b>, <b>Steel Pulse</b> and <b>Apache Indian</b>, they started out in Handsworth, Birmingham. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Their own brand/band, <b>Swami</b>, is massive across Asia. On top of that, they had their very own '<b>Oh Brother Where are Thou</b>' style breakout hit in Birmingham while barely out of their teens. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And that's before we get on to <b>Shania Twain</b>...</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Simon, like his brother, is meticulous in his ability to recall career details. That's what made this such an entertaining interview. He also is a serious recording equipment geek. I can't tell you all the kit he has accumulated, but some of it has serious music history. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">This blog is a companion piece to the Lives in Music Podcast, which you can grab <b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">here</a></b>. Or if you like, you can scroll down this page and listen to the embedded player. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The intro and outro music in this series comes from the great bass player <strong>Mike Hatton</strong>, who you can hear interviewed in series 1, <strong><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong>. '<strong>Everything Changes</strong>' is included in his excellent 2019 album '<a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation"><strong>Bassic Salvation</strong></a>'. </span><br />
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<br />Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-72429895224265348672020-03-20T14:22:00.001+00:002021-02-27T10:49:13.312+00:00A Life In Music: Roy Williams<h3>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">A mighty influencer. You Tube kids, you don't know you're born. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In this edition I'm talking with an extraordinary, super-capable, veteran music pro from the <strong>Black Country</strong> of the UK, who has, quietly, had a massive influence on music making in this neck of the woods and far, far beyond. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Roy was one of the team that launched the legendary <strong>JB</strong>s in Dudley, where anybody who was anybody simply had to play. Then he went on to managing, sound mixing, often for a lifetime friend, <strong>Robert Plant</strong>. and just doing an awful lot for an awful lot of people, simply because it was the right thing to do. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">But it's the sidelines that make this conversation so interesting - the by ways, the diversions, and the way he frequently drops hints and prompts about interesting music areas - areas that eventually emerge as having been profoundly influenced by him. And, of course, the stories.<br /><br />This is a companion blog piece to go with the <b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Williams Lives in Music Podcast</a>. </b>You can jump to all the podcast episodes <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/livesinmusic"><b>here</b></a> - there are 18 other Lives in Music available right now - or scroll down to listen to the embedded player on this page. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Photo credit: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/suzygallierphotography/"><b>Suzy Gallier</b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br />The <strong>Lives in Music</strong> series celebrates people who have spent a lifetime in music. They may be famous; they may be people who have spent their lives working in the background for the love of it. They all have stories. Lives in Music is a Radio To Go production.</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The intro and outro music in this series comes from the great bass player <strong>Mike Hatton</strong>, who you can hear interviewed in series 1, <strong><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong>. '<strong>Everything Changes</strong>' is included in his excellent 2019 album '<a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation"><strong>Bassic Salvation</strong></a>'. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams</a></b></span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>10 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">Simon Duggal (Simon & Diamond, Apache Indian, Shania Twain, Desi Beats)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<br />Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-47163184899104384942020-03-14T08:18:00.000+00:002020-03-31T08:43:19.664+01:00A Life In Music: Dave Pegg - a bass player with serious history<h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'One of the world's top bass players - within my price range'</span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUYyuA3f-7iEuLCHqZJphCN09qQezBLkXcSNbka81rie7lrwZy5VFJB23EyrgPNQI0qi-uNRHoT_aevFl1_ps8bXQ0NRie48TkrL-25TXfkHUoDJc5zSuwWHV6h4ro4q48c1QGnlEVtZYx/s1600/DP+Mugshot+FB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1522" data-original-width="1600" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUYyuA3f-7iEuLCHqZJphCN09qQezBLkXcSNbka81rie7lrwZy5VFJB23EyrgPNQI0qi-uNRHoT_aevFl1_ps8bXQ0NRie48TkrL-25TXfkHUoDJc5zSuwWHV6h4ro4q48c1QGnlEVtZYx/s320/DP+Mugshot+FB.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dave Pegg has played Bass with one group for half a century: the excellent <a href="https://www.fairportconvention.com/">Fairport Convention</a>. Fairport have one of the most tumultuous histories in British Folk-Rock. But, like many groups that survive that long, they have a spectacularly loyal following, and that now means that they are on a more stable footing than at any time in their history.<br /><br />But before Fairport, there was Rock, gigging five nights a week in the effervescent 60s Birmingham pubrock scene, a stint with the legendary Ian Campbell Group, and the not insignificant matter of 15 years holding down the bass chair with Jethro Tull.<br /><br />In the podcast, one thing struck me forcibly - when Dave describes the 1970 band as getting really good, really fast. I think this illustrates that statement perfectly. Just look at Peggy go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Peggy, as everyone calls him, has a stock of anecdotes... catching a <b>Bjork</b> show with Shadows guitarist <b>Hank Marvin</b> in Sydney, Australia, or booking the 83 year-old <b>Petula Clark</b> for Fairport's <b>Cropedy Convention</b>. He has an encyclopa</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">edic memory, and can reel off the names of obscure bands he cut his teeth with back in the day. A great man to pass time with over a pint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a companion blog piece to go with the <b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg Lives in Music Podcast</a>. </b>You can jump to all the podcast episodes <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/livesinmusic"><b>here</b></a> - there are 17 other Lives in Music available right now - or scroll down to listen to the embedded player on this page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The <strong>Lives in Music</strong> series celebrates people who have spent a lifetime in music. They may be famous; they may be people who have spent their lives working in the background for the love of it. They all have stories. Lives in Music is a Radio To Go production.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The intro and outro music in this series comes from the great bass player <strong>Mike Hatton</strong>, who you can hear interviewed in series 1, <strong><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong>. '<strong>Everything Changes</strong>' is included in his excellent 2019 album '<a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation"><strong>Bassic Salvation</strong></a>'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">Brian Travers of UB40</a><br />2 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-ricky-cool">Ricky Cool</a><br />3 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso">Mark 'Foxy' Robinson of the CBSO</a><br />4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Roy Adams</a><br />5 - <a href="http://5%20-%20gavin%20monaghan%20at%20magic%20garden%20studios/">Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden studios </a><br />6 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler">John Mostyn</a><br />7 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">Stewart Johnson: taking UK Country back across the pond</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>10 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">Simon Duggal (Simon & Diamond, Apache Indian, Shania Twain, Desi Beats)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ask any Lives in Music participant, and you'll get the same answer - there's no easy or straight route through life as a musician. You go where the work is, and if you're very, very lucky, you get to call a few shots in due course. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This blog post is a companion piece to Stewart's Lives in Music Podcast episode, which you can listen to <b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">here</a></b>, or you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and listen there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Stewart's case his life took him all over Europe and the UK as a post-war Army brat, and that exposed him to a host of influences. From there, he went in to rock, with some success, followed by stage work, all the while nurturing his deep love for bluegrass and the best in country music. He's passed this on to his children, leading to the first family band in Brum, and kicking off his daughters' solo careers, crafted in the teeth of opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. It's a great story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://hjbrokenhearts.com/">Hannah Johnson and the Broken Hearts</a><br /><a href="https://thetoyhearts.com/">The Toy Hearts</a></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.sophiajohnsonmusic.com/">Hannah Johnson</a></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Lives in Music</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> series celebrates people who have spent a lifetime in music. They may be famous; they may be people who have spent their lives working in the background for the love of it. They all have stories. Lives in Music is a Radio To Go production. All published episodes can be found </span><b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">here</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Published in Series 2 (series 1 episodes <a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">listed here</a>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">Brian Travers of UB40</a><br />2 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-ricky-cool">Ricky Cool</a><br />3 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso">Mark 'Foxy' Robinson of the CBSO</a><br />4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Roy Adams</a><br />5 - <a href="http://5%20-%20gavin%20monaghan%20at%20magic%20garden%20studios/">Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden studios </a><br />6 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler">John Mostyn</a><br />7 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">Stewart Johnson</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>10 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">Simon Duggal (Simon & Diamond, Apache Indian, Shania Twain, Desi Beats)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The intro and outro music in this series comes from the great bass player <strong>Mike Hatton</strong>, who you can hear interviewed in series 1, <strong><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong>. '<strong>Everything Changes</strong>' is included in his excellent 2019 album '<a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation"><strong>Bassic Salvation</strong></a>'. </span><br />
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<br />Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-91730261170764538872020-02-25T12:33:00.001+00:002020-03-31T08:42:52.886+01:00A Life In Music: John Mostyn<h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With some fifty years in the business across a
dizzying range of bands and activities, John Mostyn is endlessly
interesting. He's done the mega-deals, battled with the music
industry at the very top levels, and he's worked just as hard on
small local projects which simply deserved some help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And he has some
incredible stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's a lot to be gleaned from listening to
John's experiences. Not that John minds; he's always been happy to
share and lend a hand. And there are always, always, new projects, which you might never have considered in a month of Sundays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a companion blog piece to the John Mostyyn Lives in Music Podcast, which you can listen to <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler"><b>here</b></a>. Or just scroll down to the bottom of this page and listen to the embedded file.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://t.co/pyWYfi4jx9">Carpe Aqua</a> </b>If you don't know about this, you're missing out.<br /><a href="https://thebeatofficial.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">The Beat</a><b> </b>(led by the late Ranking Roger)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://englishbeat.net/" style="font-weight: bold;">The English Beat</a> (led by Dave Wakelin)<br /><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Young_Cannibals">Fine Young Cannibals</a></b> wikipedia page</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://oceancolourscene.com/">Ocean Colour Scene</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lives in Music</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Lives in Music series celebrates people who
have spent a lifetime in music. They may be famous; they may be
people who have spent their lives working in the background for the
love of it. But they all have stories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/11976800/height/360/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The intro and outro music in this series comes
from the great bass player </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Mike Hatton</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, who you can
hear interviewed in series 1, </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.
'</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Everything Changes</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">' is included in his excellent
2019 album '</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation">Bassic
Salvation</a></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Published in Series 2 (series 1 episodes <a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">listed here</a>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">Brian Travers of UB40</a><br />2 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-ricky-cool">Ricky Cool</a><br />3 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso">Mark 'Foxy' Robinson of the CBSO</a><br />4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Roy Adams</a><br />5 - <a href="http://5%20-%20gavin%20monaghan%20at%20magic%20garden%20studios/">Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden studios </a><br />6 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler">John Mostyn</a><br />7 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">Stewart Johnson: taking UK Country back across the pond</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>10 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">Simon Duggal (Simon and Diamond, Apache Indian, Shania Twain, Desi Beats)</a></b></span></span></div>
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<br />Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-68677108801363991372020-02-22T11:47:00.000+00:002020-03-31T08:44:25.662+01:00A Life In Music: Gavin Monaghan a legendary producer <h3>
<strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The Wizard in his garden</strong></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Gavin Monaghan</strong> is a producer who commands massive respect worldwide, but who is just at home working with local bands that he has an affinity with. He loves his work.
The people who work with him love his work as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gavin operates from
an unassuming but brilliant studio complex, the third premises that he's
named <strong>Magic Garden</strong>. Music of all shapes and
descriptions flows from there out to the world. When I dropped by, Gavin was very calmly allowing his clients to work out and freely deliver something exceptional. It's a brilliant skill. Not all producers have it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Among his better-known local clients, you'll find <b>Ocean Colour Scene</b>, <b>Carina Round</b>, <b>Paul Murphy</b>, <b>Editors</b>, <b>Scott Matthews</b>, <b>Robert Plant</b>, <b>Nizlopi</b> and <b>The Twang</b>. That's one terrific range of talent. Among his newer clients, you'll find <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thepagansband/"><b>Pagans (Shepherds Of Humanity)</b></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PaperBuoys/"><b>Paper Buoys</b></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/methods2/" style="font-weight: bold;">Methods</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CherryLotusBand/"><b>Cherry Lotus</b></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theblindersband/"><b>The Blinders</b></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HUDSBABY/"><b>HÜDS</b></a>, and more. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Above all
Gavin focuses on results - it's fascinating to hear how he gets those
results, how he got started, and how technology has changed the
creative music landscape. Craft skills, hard won and invaluable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That patient approach, and the love and nurturing of for new talent from a veteran's perspective chimes with what I want to cover in the Lives in Music series. To listen, you can jump to the <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-gavin-monaghan-of-the-magic-garden">podcast site</a> to download and/or stream, or if you like, scroll down to the bottom of this page and stream from the embedded player. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The story starts, as with many in this series,
with a dedicated teacher, when Gavin was very, very young.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MagicGardenRecordingStudio/">Magic Garden facebook page</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lives in Music</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Lives in Music series celebrates people who
have spent a lifetime in music. They may be famous; they may be
people who have spent their lives working in the background for the
love of it. But they all have stories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Published in Series 2 (series 1 episodes <a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">listed here</a>)</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">Brian Travers of UB40</a><br />2 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-ricky-cool">Ricky Cool</a><br />3 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso">Mark 'Foxy' Robinson of the CBSO</a><br />4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Roy Adams</a><br />5 - <a href="http://5%20-%20gavin%20monaghan%20at%20magic%20garden%20studios/">Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden studios </a><br />6 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler">John Mostyn</a><br />7 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">Stewart Johnson: taking UK Country back across the pond</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>10 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">Simon Duggal (Simon & Diamond, Apache Indian, Shania Twain, Desi Beats)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The intro and outro music in this series comes
from the great bass player <strong>Mike Hatton</strong>, who you can
hear interviewed in series 1, <strong><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong>.
'<strong>Everything Changes</strong>' is included in his excellent
2019 album '<strong><a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation">Bassic
Salvation</a></strong>'.</span><br />
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<br />Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-82370498508831583782020-02-14T12:16:00.000+00:002020-03-31T08:44:48.025+01:00A Life in Music: Roy Adams<h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Exactly HOW many bands?</span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ImJVAxNRVOMbZ5V5eJ0EvwR6a7r9NnL3gwlt140LgaOfvgDvPeNYlRJuMJKIAifScyWFrxQsAsVCBAxyJjmOgnavuKzzcBh0BAD-i6gdeir5xHt9cyH8SlyREEqbuSyQyl0wv_c4RGHg/s1600/Image+-+Headshot+square.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ImJVAxNRVOMbZ5V5eJ0EvwR6a7r9NnL3gwlt140LgaOfvgDvPeNYlRJuMJKIAifScyWFrxQsAsVCBAxyJjmOgnavuKzzcBh0BAD-i6gdeir5xHt9cyH8SlyREEqbuSyQyl0wv_c4RGHg/s320/Image+-+Headshot+square.jpg" width="263" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">this edition of Lives in Music</a>, I'm talking with <strong>Roy Adams</strong>, who is a beast of a drummer - with excellent taste - across a wide variety of styles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's tricky to list all the bands Roy currently plays with. He simply loves to play. You'll find him playing, with a huge smile on his face, in a bar with 50 people watching... or at a mega venue in front an audience of thousands in one of his two major gigs. He's held down the drum chair at <strong>Climax Blues Band</strong> for 35 years, and he's a fixture on the Roy Wood Christmas yearly extravaganza. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the rest, listen on: you'll know the names of some, if not all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For me, it was the combination of two of his 'do it for love' bands, that piqued my attention: <b>The Quiet Men </b>(they are not) and <b>C-Jam</b>, both of whom you will catch in small boozers with hip clientele. Those gigs are done for pure pleasure, for the joy of grooving with fellow musicians who can <i>seriously</i> play. In a way, those bands, and those tiny venues, are the very essence of what I'm aiming to cover in the Lives in Music series.<br /><br />You can jump to the <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Podcast site</a> to download and/or stream, or if you like, scroll down to the bottom of this page and stream from the embedded player. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Climax Blues Band:</b> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_Blues_Band">full Wikipedia history</a> </b>An extensive history at that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...or catch Roy, this time looking dead serious, in this video clip. Veterans one and all, (apart from the string section)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b><b><br /><a href="https://www.roywood.co.uk/">Roy Wood</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lives in Music</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Lives in Music series celebrates people who have spent a lifetime in music. They may be famous; they may be people who have spent their lives working in the background for the love of it. But they all have stories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/11880680/height/360/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The intro and outro music in this series comes from the great bass player <strong>Mike Hatton</strong>, who you can hear interviewed in series 1, <strong><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong>. '<strong>Everything Changes</strong>' is included in his excellent 2019 album '<strong><a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation">Bassic Salvation</a></strong>'. Follow the album link for more :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Published so far in Series 2</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Published in Series 2 (series 1 episodes <a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/p/contents-grouped.html">listed here</a>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">Brian Travers of UB40</a><br />2 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-ricky-cool">Ricky Cool</a><br />3 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso">Mark 'Foxy' Robinson of the CBSO</a><br />4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Roy Adams</a><br />5 - <a href="http://5%20-%20gavin%20monaghan%20at%20magic%20garden%20studios/">Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden studios </a><br />6 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler">John Mostyn</a><br />7 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">Stewart Johnson: taking UK Country back across the pond</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>10 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">Simon Duggal (Simon & Diamond, Apache Indian, Shania Twain, Desi Beats)</a></b></span></span></div>
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Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-21219057507921965552020-02-07T12:27:00.000+00:002020-03-31T08:45:10.884+01:00A Life In Music: Mark Robinson. 40 years at the CBSO <h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">40 Years at the CBSO, the Fiddle in 'Fiddle and Bone', dangerous flirtations with rock ...</span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilk4ESuAMxE81-cwbsOmQR6_zffeNKLrUER3lzWQIm4SVv1oFsRg11of8PkwVyBIyU4jUWqm_MRiBrd23hSivnUK5USv9R7_XMClK1LB80K83oZasTqB-PY0QaNaGl6t0cU9DCEKRSZ_xM/s1600/Image+-+Foxy+root+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="570" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilk4ESuAMxE81-cwbsOmQR6_zffeNKLrUER3lzWQIm4SVv1oFsRg11of8PkwVyBIyU4jUWqm_MRiBrd23hSivnUK5USv9R7_XMClK1LB80K83oZasTqB-PY0QaNaGl6t0cU9DCEKRSZ_xM/s320/Image+-+Foxy+root+pic.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I owe a debt of gratitude to a great Birmingham muso, <b>R. John Webb</b> (aka Ryan Webb, late of Rhino and the Ranters), who, when learning that I wanted to find a Classical muso for this series, suggested I talk to <strong>Foxy</strong>... a pal of his from Moseley, the proudly boho bit of Brum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Foxy who?' I ask.<br /><br />'Oh, I don't know his real name. But he's Classical' says Ryan.<br /><br />'That can cover a lot of things. Which orchestra?' say I.<br /><br />'Oh, the Rattle one' came the reply.<br /><br />That started my pursuit. In due course we met up in one of Moseley's nicer coffee joints, and talked for hours. Clearly I was being sized up. But in due course, Foxy - Mark Robinson - who will absolutely not tell me why he has that nickname, agreed to be interviewed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>So now, a detailed and fascinating conversation...</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the result is this podcast episode. You can jump to my podcast host to stream or download </span><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, or you can head down to the bottom of this post to listen now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Very precise detail is what Mark goes for. We covered an enormous range of topics. But as always in this series, if you put forty or fifty years into your craft, then you have the stories and experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The conversation gave
me a chance to look at the life of a musician in a BIG outfit.
Orchestras can run to 90 or more, so touring a band like that is a
bit more than assembling a road crew. The logistics must be a
nightmare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Prince of Wales</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The <b>Prince of Wales</b> in Moseley, Birmingham
has played a considerable part in this podcast episode. The Prince is
a Moseley musicians' watering hole, with a long history of live
music, and in whose snug we captured most of the conversation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mark
made mention of a benefit which took place in 2005. This was for the
legendary </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Steve Ajao</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, whose podcast episode is </span><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-steve-ajao" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.
I am indebted to </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Reed Alan</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, who filmed the benefit
performance, and who has kindly allowed me to embed this video clip here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Lives in Music podcasts celebrates people who have spent a lifetime in music. They may be famous; they may be people who have spent their lives working in the background for the love of it. But they all have stories. Listen here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The intro and outro music in this series comes from the great bass player </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Mike Hatton</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, who you can hear interviewed in series 1, </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. '</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Everything Changes</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">' is included in his excellent 2019 album '</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation">Bassic Salvation</a></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'. Follow the album link for more :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">Brian Travers of UB40</a><br />2 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-ricky-cool">Ricky Cool</a><br />3 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso">Mark 'Foxy' Robinson of the CBSO</a><br />4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Roy Adams</a><br />5 - <a href="http://5%20-%20gavin%20monaghan%20at%20magic%20garden%20studios/">Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden studios </a><br />6 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler">John Mostyn</a><br />7 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">Stewart Johnson: taking UK Country back across the pond</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>10 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">Simon Duggal (Simon & Diamond, Apache Indian, Shania Twain, Desi Beats)</a></b></span></span></div>
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Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-9496340910666896072020-01-31T11:44:00.000+00:002020-03-31T08:45:55.068+01:00A Life in Music: Ricky Cool<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35FUe36lDl7LG0L2GWu441qmSyMHfDwY6shZOML1LKups_Eerj1Oj-2aPZ10Ba1Y-4rrqrBO3MUMvBtB5DEAFWY1aDUNf-ktjiaqBHwKa2q4P1inV0jFN37bGG8PbGxPEpxRa3lkxu6dc/s1600/16-9+LIM+RC+Logo+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35FUe36lDl7LG0L2GWu441qmSyMHfDwY6shZOML1LKups_Eerj1Oj-2aPZ10Ba1Y-4rrqrBO3MUMvBtB5DEAFWY1aDUNf-ktjiaqBHwKa2q4P1inV0jFN37bGG8PbGxPEpxRa3lkxu6dc/s320/16-9+LIM+RC+Logo+2.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ricky Cool is a music </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">veteran... who adores vintage music. He's a walking encyclopedia of US roots music, and he's no slouch about the UK music scene over the past 50 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this episode, l get schooled about harmonica playing, and we get a fascinating look at what it meant to be in bands struggling to get ahead through the 70s, 80s, 90s, and on into this century. Things are - different - now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The latest incarnation of Ricky's band, <b>Ricky Cool and The In Crowd</b>, is a very slick and entertaining operation, which harks back over 50 years to the mid-60s days of ska and organ groove. Be warned: there's one teeny little bit of louche behaviour described. A swear word. But it's not sweary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ricky Cool's <b><a href="https://www.rickycoolandtheincrowd.co.uk/">website</a></b> for history and gig updates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Waters">Muddy Waters</a></b> wiki (McKinley Morganfield)<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howlin%27_Wolf" style="font-weight: bold;">Howling Wolf </a>wiki (Chester Burnett)<br /><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8">Howling Wolf - Smokestack Lightning</a></b><br /><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Strong">Barrett Strong</a> </b>wiki<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmbSC9c2ys"><b>Tommy Tucker</b> <b>- Hi Heel Sneakers</b></a><br /><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHpqQaf0EK8">Sonny Boy Willamson - Bring It On Home</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34FWANCq6_0">Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Long Way From Home</a></b><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBME_J0pf3o"><br />Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci4EQDD4CqA">Tiny Bradshaw - Train Kept A Rollin'</a></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SkxRfUbiAs" style="font-weight: bold;">Nappy Brown - Don't Be Angry</a><br /><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nEof88_Rho">Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - San Antonio Rose</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6pHtiNT_k">Louis Jordan - Caldonia</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYMyhBiNHI">Roy Milton and His Solid Senders - Hop Skip and Jump</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKg8L3pZLUk">The Destroyers feat <b>Mick Howson - Kalinka</b></a><br /><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlFKwY_YgZ4">Nic Jones - Canadee-i-o</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzYqZNcIOvs">Diz Dizley - It had To Be You</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The intro and outro music in this series comes from the great bass player </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Mike Hatton</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, who you can hear interviewed in series 1, </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. '</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Everything Changes</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">' is included in his excellent 2019 album '</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation">Bassic Salvation</a></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'. Follow the album link for more :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">Brian Travers of UB40</a><br />2 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-ricky-cool">Ricky Cool</a><br />3 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso">Mark 'Foxy' Robinson of the CBSO</a><br />4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Roy Adams</a><br />5 - <a href="http://5%20-%20gavin%20monaghan%20at%20magic%20garden%20studios/">Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden studios </a><br />6 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler">John Mostyn</a><br />7 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">Stewart Johnson: taking UK Country back across the pond</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some 40 plus years back, at the old BRMB, when I was the rock DJ, I booked a session with <strong>UB40</strong>. It was a custom advance mix of six of the tracks that later saw the light of day on UB40's first album, <strong>Signing Off</strong>. <br /><br />It was by far the most successful session I'd ever set up. It was the only session that generated calls from listeners before I'd even played a track.<br /><br />Coming up to the present date, in the past year, UB40 Sax man and chief Brummie about town, <strong>Brian Travers</strong> has had to step back from the band for health reasons. These are are covered in the podcast. It's not pretty. However, Brian did reappear on stage with the band at the end of 2019 at their hometown concert. It was a very emotional moment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;">This is a companion post to my </span><b style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Lives in Music podcast</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;">, featuring Brian.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;">You can download it </span><b style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">here</a></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;">, or scroll down to stream it from the bottom of this page.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But during his period of enforced convalescence, he's thrown himself headfirst into a fresh set of activities. <strong>Brian Travers Arts</strong> was already established as a second activity. with painting, sculpture and glasswork. At one of his first shows (with <strong>Havill and Travis</strong>), his glass dildo with Clarice Cliff-inspired embellishments was a standout. I just wish I hadn't been holding it when Brian snapped me...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But there's a lot more. Brian's devoted a ridiculous amount of energy to raise funds for the doctors, medical staff and the medical facilities which pulled him though. The next step might be his own foundation.<br /><br />When something as drastic as Brian's condition steps up and slaps you across the face, you realise, possibly for the first time, that there's a limited time left for you to do things. Brian has taken this as a personal cue to work on a massive range of projects, while awaiting clearance to get back with the band on a more regular basis. You'll hear about some of this.<br /><br />But you'll also hear a stream of stories. And Brian is nothing if not a master story-teller. It was a joy to sit down with him and swap anecdotes, talk music... and life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UB40">UB40</a><br /><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0rfNBDAG7tzO4Sw5mO3xJE?si=VhuD1YBDRTamrHbAB5yRlA"> Signing Off</a></b> (Spotify)<br /><b><a href="https://www.saxgourmet.com/king-saxophone-history-great-americans/"> King Saxophones</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/briantraversarts/">Brian Travers Arts</a></b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">See also <b><a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-album-from-UB40.html">this UB40 Radio To Go post from 2013</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Lives in Music podcasts celebrate people who have spent a lifetime in music. They may be famous; they may be people who have spent their lives working in the background for the love of it. But they all have stories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The intro and outro music in this series comes from the great bass player </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Mike Hatton</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, who you can hear interviewed in series 1, </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton">here</a></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. '</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Everything Changes</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">' is included in his excellent 2019 album '</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://mikehattonsolobass.bandcamp.com/album/bassic-salvation">Bassic Salvation</a></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'. Follow the album link for more :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-brian-travers-of-ub40">Brian Travers of UB40</a><br />2 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-ricky-cool">Ricky Cool</a><br />3 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/mark-robinson-the-fiddle-of-fiddle-bone-40-years-with-the-cbso">Mark 'Foxy' Robinson of the CBSO</a><br />4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-roy-adams-0">Roy Adams</a><br />5 - <a href="http://5%20-%20gavin%20monaghan%20at%20magic%20garden%20studios/">Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden studios </a><br />6 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-mostyn-manager-idealist-and-enabler">John Mostyn</a><br />7 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-stewart-johnson-pedal-steel-pioneer">Stewart Johnson: taking UK Country back across the pond</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/dave-pegg-fairport-tull-and-now-festival-impresario">Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>9 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/roy-williams-from-an-extraordinary-70s-club-to-making-extraordinary-things-happen">Roy Willams (JB's, Little Acre, Weapon of Peace, Robert Plant)</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>10 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/simon-duggal-a-huge-track-record-total-recall-amazing-stories">Simon Duggal (Simon & Diamond, Apache Indian, Shania Twain, Desi Beats)</a></b></span></span></div>
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<br />Radio To Gohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725758182840107219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4476699817870178740.post-85292973858329421972019-12-08T15:58:00.000+00:002019-12-13T14:22:19.171+00:00A Life in Music: Jim Simpson. 1066, Black Sabbath, veteran bluesmen and all that <h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tales of rock, muso photography, jazz and blues. And launching a little band called Black Sabbath along the way. </span></h3>
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<strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jim Simpson</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> has done an awful lot in his time. He's the man who shot a ton of 60s and 70s rock stars. You can see his shots online and often in exhibitions around town. <b>Little Richard </b>never looked lovelier.<br /><br />Jim was key to the Birmingham music scene in the 60s, creating <b>Henry's Blueshouse</b>, the venue where </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Black Sabbath</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> first came to prominence, and going on to be their first manager. Students of Rock history and muso management take note. Jim is a tactful man, but there is much to be learned here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">podcast has now been published: go </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-jim-simpson">here</a></b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to listen, subscribe and/or download</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">... or go to the <b>player</b> at the bottom of this post. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After all the Sabbath palaver? There were a number of other bands, taking in some of the finest musicians, many still playing around town. A record label, <b>Big Bear</b>, emerged, specialising in original blues; 35 years of </span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jazz Festivals</strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">; and a lot more. Jim's written a lovely book; there is a comprehensive reissue programme going on with Big Bear records. And Henry's Blueshouse rides again in Birmingham. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The label: <a href="http://www.bigbearmusic.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Big Bear Music</a> and <b><a href="http://www.bigbearmusic.com/a-brief-history-of-big-bear-music/">some history</a> </b><br />The book: <b><a href="http://www.bigbearmusic.com/product/dont-worry-bout-the-bear/">Don't worry 'bout the Bear</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/henrysblueshouse/posts/"><b>Henry's Blueshouse</b></a> facebook page<br />A very useful 'early days' section is on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath" style="font-weight: bold;">Black Sabbath's wikipedia page</a>. <b> </b><br /><b><a href="http://www.birminghamjazzfestival.com/">The Birmingham, Sandwell and Westside Jazz Festival</a> </b>website</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also published in Lives In Music </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-soul-and-gospel-legend-ruby-turner"><b>Ruby Turner</b></a> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />2 - </span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-steve-ajao"><b>Steve Ajao</b></a><br />3 - </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/life-in-music-the-men-who-make-mellotrons">The Men Who Make Mellotrons</a></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-mike-hatton"><b>Mike Hatton</b></a><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">5 - </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-horace-panter">Horace Panter</a></b><br />6 - <b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-jasper-carrott-wheres-the-guitar-gone">Jasper Carott</a> </b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7 - <a href="https://radiotogo.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-life-in-music-sam-slater.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Sam Slater</a><br />8 - <a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-john-patrick" style="font-weight: bold;">John Patrick</a><br />9 - <b><a href="http://livesinmusic.libsyn.com/lives-in-music-gordon-giltrap">Gordon Giltrap</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The theme music for this series is by local band <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Big-Q-Fish-1281821618576421/">Big Q Fish</a></b>. 'Boksburg Jive Toon' was written by <b>Brian Neil</b>, and recorded at the Jam House, Birmingham, in 2017.</span><br />
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