Little Theatre, Cleadon Village Saturday, 30th November 2024 Obviously, concerts are about the music. Be that hearing new bands or familiar ones playing equally familiar, or less well known material. However, on occasion a concert can be more than the…
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Fire Station, Sunderland Monday, 11th November 2024 For those who are familiar with Julia Fordham’s voice they will know how wonderful it is. Yes, there are more powerful singers in the annals of music history but her style is not…
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First Direct Arena, Leeds 7th November 2024 REEF It is hard for any band to fill a support slot, especially when the main act happens to be Deep Purple. Most of the audience is there to see the ‘name’ and…
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City Varieties, Leeds Monday 4th November 2025 For some people, such as myself, The Police were part of the soundtrack to our formative lives. They might not have been our very favourite band but their songs were good and some…
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The Empress Building, Mexborough Friday, 25th October 2024 I have friends all over the world and when I excitedly told them that I was going to see Brian Blessed I was met with silences that made it clear that they…
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Until about a week ago I had never heard of Mike Dawes and only discovered his music when he was the support act, and then guitarist, for Justin Hayward’s concert band. Like many lesser known acts he came on and…
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Seventeen Nineteen, Sunderland Sunday, 13th October 2024 I think that insufficient credit, or discredit, is given to the actual venues of concerts so I will buck that trend and start off with that. Concert venues can be just bland names…
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On behalf of Progressive Aspect to myself, thank you John for giving us your time for this interview. Darren Walker: Growing up a time when Rock was, arguably, at its best, what made you pick up as a flute as…
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I have a love hate relationship with the term ‘A musician’s musician’ as, to me, it seems to imply either of two things. Firstly that they make music that is somehow too clever for the general public, making something that…
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Holy Trinity Church, Sheffield Saturday, 28th September 2024 I will start with a confession, which is that, long ago I took guitar lessons for two years and only learnt how to play the A chord and the A chord badly.…
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