Gig For Japan

28Apr11

As a wise person once said, “Why don’t you just switch off your radio set and go and do something less boring instead?” So last night I went up to Norwich for the excellent Gig For Japan. James Broad from Silver Sun played a great acoustic set, with some of the more committed fans in […]

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Tags: Cheap Trick, Gig for Japan, Norwich Arts Centre, Silver Sun

Pop Up Radio: 1930s dance music

15Apr11

This week I’m enjoying 70 Years Without Al Bowlly, a temporary radio station dedicated to the singer and guitarist who died in the Blitz in April 1941. The station is being run by the people behind Angel Radio, who broadcast from a fabulous-looking ‘nostalgia’ shop in Hampshire. Since much of the dance band music they […]

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Tags: 1930s, Al Bowlly, Angel Radio, Pop Up Radio