Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 Josh Rouse songs
Josh Rouse sits at the table marked mellow singer-songwriter. For many he is a hugely underrated songwriter with a knack for a melody; for others he is a bit anodyne but when he is tapped into […]
Articles by Keith Hargreaves
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 91
Thank God for Easter ( works on several levels..)! Creaking my way towards the end of term has been a mixed blessing tinted with a touch of melancholia as I grasp the fact that several of […]
Features
The First Time: Keith Hargreaves – The Specials, Madness etc. Camden Electric Ballroom – 21st July 1979
I was fifteen. I knew nothing… at all. Desperate to attend a gig in London my mate Maz persuaded his sister who lived in a commune in Kings Cross to get some tickets. Maz was a […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 90
Damn the fragility of the body. The spirit is certainly willing but …f**k, the body isn’t at the moment. After 4 weeks of nursing a back (and boring you dear reader with my moaning), last weekend […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 89
Soft skills for an employable, healthy future This last week has seen the school return (at last) to showcasing its musicians in a formal free-to-enter concert and this time the music was interspersed with dramatic pieces […]