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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 20
Never have so many students been assessed and teachers marked so much – roll on the weekend! The horrors of the pandemic notwithstanding, our Yr 11s and Yr 13s have really had a grim time of […]
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Shuffle: Is Robert Pollard is rock music’s Picasso?
After visiting a Picasso exhibition my friend said ‘I didn’t realise he could actually draw’. What she meant by this was that, to her, drawing and painting is a naturalistic representation of the world; she mistook […]
Americana Roots
Americana Roots: Kitchen Dwellers
Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US. It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts who […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Billy Bragg “The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie”
The Israel-Palestine issue is often presented as something complex, and undoubtedly there are complexities to it, but presenting it as almost unsolvably complex conveniently makes people think there’s nothing they can do about it and so […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 19
In which your intrepid correspondent travels back in time. It had been bothering me for a while but last week I finally summoned up the resolve to deal with an issue that had been concerning me […]