The Glamour Cave

Seeing the  Keston Cobblers Club  for the first time at The Lantern Society   around a year ago   I was struck by three things about them. F...

I owe a lot to Mike Harding. I think of him as a friend because after I was made redundant he encouraged me to start this blog. We'd m...

If you think England has a difficult relationship with its folk music, pity the poor Germans. Hayden Chisholm is a New Zealander of Sco...

Blue Horyzon were busking in between cloud bursts at the Shrewsbury festival yesterday and made quite an impression. Genevieve Tudor i...

Brave is a lovely film. If Pixar's earlier triumph  Finding Nemo  proved definitively that fish are people too, then Brave does the sa...

Talking to Hannah Miller, the Moulettes' cellist and lyricist, I was aware that she kept expecting me to misunderstand her. "A lot...

A few weeks back I was slumped, semi-sentient in front of the telly watching a rather wonderful episode of Coast , when a peculiar feeling c...