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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 35

November 11, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0
The war to end all wars. One of my roles in school is teaching Yr 9 History and this week is of particular significance as the teaching of the events around and within World War One […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 34

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Back with a bang and a small prick Half term done and despite the sense of melancholy mentioned last week and possibly some SAD caused by the clocks going back, it’s good to be back although […]
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Shuffle: Obscurity Knocks!

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My last column covered the creation of a playlist culled from the mass of tracks on my iPod. I painstakingly worked through the 33,000+ tracks, and in doing so there were many explosions in my synapses, […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 33

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Living in a different home. One of the positives about working where I work is the wonderful concept of a two-week half term in winter. Of course, they get the week back later in the year […]
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Classic Clips : Nils Lofgren with Grin

October 22, 2021 Paul Kerr 1
No apologies here for going back to the dark old days of 1973, another world really when it was still legal to discriminate against half of the UK population on the grounds that they were women. […]

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Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore

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For Hal Cannon, life should be very simple – love the place you live, love the ones you know, if you’re needy, why not give, then see if you’re still low. Words to live by, extracted […]
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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]
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