AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana
I’ve been lucky enough to have been to a few gigs recently and, indeed, promoted a couple myself. I’m always intrigued by the music playing in a venue before the acts come on. Is this the […]
I love snow. Haven’t seen it in the UK for a while and it never really hangs around but it does bring with it a certain joy and sense of wonder. Don’t ask me why. Is […]
Regular readers will know I’m always banging on about the power of live music and the joy that it can bring and something surfaced this week that made me reflect on why I feel so strongly […]
Life is increasingly complex but usually manageable despite the occasional barrier, because as sentient beings we should have a vague grasp on what is reasonable and what poses a risk to our continued existence. Or at […]
A recent discussion on Radio 4 about gig going prompted a discussion amongst fellow writers about the type of gigs they attended and how often. It was a revealing conversation with, interestingly, venue comfort coming close […]
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