In 1979 a biologist, Professor Richard Abbott, discovered a new species of plant. It was growing in a patch of scrubland next to a car park in York. An overlooked, unloved place……
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Around 10 years ago, I sat in a small public lecture theatre listening to a cancer patient speak about her illness. I was gripped. Hers was a brutal, raging cancer, the treatment…
Hello everyone – would you like to help me create an honest (perhaps alternative?) picture of music and the arts in the UK? I’ve always been fascinated by UNREALISED PROJECTS…artistic dreams, ideas,…
How’s your day? Not your social media whoo-hoo day, but your real, emotional, volatile, unpredictable, roller-coaster day? The one that causes you to take long, hard breaths when something doesn’t quite work…
I can’t listen to Delibes’ Coppelia without my mind leaping back to my five-year old self, dancing around the living room to an Ernest Ansermet Decca recording. The next LP on the…
(image:Grégoire Pont, Rooftop gymnopedie, 2009) It was an absolute pleasure to interview French artist Grégoire Pont about his work with François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles …and other stories…. ‘Are you going to film this…
The sounds and inspiration behind RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME A bell strikes. A rich, metallic, portentous spectrum, heralding a call, change, victory, danger, celebration… Surely a bell is one of the most…
Its not often that you take your seat in a concert venue that could kill you. Situated beneath Tower Bridge are two cavernous bascule chambers, housing the huge counterweights that swing the bridge into…