The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends an impressive impersonation of Bob Dylan
Attila the Stockbroker Diary: May 31, 2024
A shameless plug for Glastonwick festival, and a close shave at the Bar at the End of the World
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Here, Vermiglio, William Tell and Wolf Man
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EWAN KOTZ relishes a veteran Glasgow band that have lost none of their verve for live performance
SUMMER’s here, festival season’s here, and this weekend sees the one I have co-run for 29 years, Glastonwick, in the beautiful surroundings of Coombes Farm, West Sussex.
Our annual Beer, Music, Poetry & More Beer Festival: established in 1996 by co-founders beer guru Alex Hall, music/poetry co-ordinator yours truly and the late Roy Chuter, and based around a very simple idea, albeit one pioneering at the time.
It was the mid-1990s. I had performed at countless music festivals where the beer was the undrinkable urine of Satan and we had all attended vast quantities of beer festivals where it was a matter of iron principle that “the entertainment” had to start every song by informing the audience that they “woke up this morning” in a fake US accent.
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