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Sounds from the Shed

AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 129 “She’s leaving home… bye bye”

January 26, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
This week for the second time in her life my daughter left home… properly. This time she’s 28! Now I know that this is not exceptional these days but it bloody well should be. I’m fairly […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 128 – ‘Blast off!’

January 19, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Time to kick out the jams… again Every year at about this time I look at the diary and if I haven’t got any gigs in there I go online and find at least one for […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 127 – “Pain in the… knee”

January 12, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 2
Curse the aging process. Okay it’s time for a little honesty here. I’m on the cusp of the big 60 and have been active most of my life although to be fair I have been much […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 126 – “Cheese Intervention”

January 5, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
New Year – same old post Christmas torpor. Welcome back readers and listeners and it’s a vaguely new format for a vaguely new year. Gone is the headline week of news and in comes the splash […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 125

December 22, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Thinking about the future… Trying to wrestle with plans for the future now I’m not in full-time employment is becoming increasingly pointless. Always one for working I currently find it difficult to say not anyone who […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]
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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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