Great Central Railway, Loughborough June 2016
Videos
Interview with Dave Andrews of Radio Leicester about iconic music venue “Il Rondo”
This is an interview by Dave Andrews of Radio Leicester with me, Shaun Knapp, and Sue Barton about the iconic music venue Il Rondo that is now a store room for an Italian restaurant! It was amazing to see it and realise it was still there virtually unchanged but rather derelict.
The Il Rondo hosted some of the greats of popular music including The Rolling Stones, The Who, Howlin’ Wolf, Fleetwood Mac and a host of others!
Teacher’s Strike 26th March 2014 Town Hall Square, Leicester
Here are some videos of Steve Cartwright and my involvement with the N.U.T. strike in Leicester. The p.a. system stopped working but we managed to get by!
Tenerife January 2014
Kenny Wilson sings Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”
Kenny Wilson sings Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” at The Cradock Pub Open Mic, Leicester U.K. 11th September 2013
Kenny Wilson Live at the Criterion, Leicester U.K. Part Two
Second part of Kenny Wilson’s gig at the Criterion cut short by the camera battery dying. The first part can be found here Kenny Wilson Live at the Criterion Part One
New Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 10 from the Self Portrait period 1969-71
This is an interesting addition to the Bootleg Series from the much maligned Self Portrait period. I always thought there was more to it than many critics allowed.Time for a reappraisal!
Related articles
- Bob Dylan Unreleased Songs With George Harrison To Surface Bootleg 10 (noise11.com)
- ArtsBeat: Latest in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series, ‘Another Self Portrait,’ Coming in August (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) (musicofourheart.me)
- Bob Dylan: Another Self Portrait Vs. The Basement Box (popdose.com)
- Latest Bob Dylan ‘Bootleg’: ‘Self Portrait’ (wyff4.com)
- 5 Essential 1970 Bob Dylan Songs (esquire.com)
‘Where Are We Now?’ by David Bowie
I particularly like this song because it references places I know in Berlin and has such an atmosphere of longing and even dread. An example is that Pottsdammer Platz was a bleak ‘no mans land’ in the 70s. This is a very touching song about something more than nostalgia.
Related articles
- Where was he then? Bowie relives odyssey in Seventies Berlin (independent.co.uk)
- Bowie’s Berlin – Where are we now? (thelocal.de)
- Iggy Pop And David Bowie’s Friendship To Hit The Big Screen In Biopic (contactmusic.com)
- David Bowie’s Berlin Years With Iggy Pop Inspire New Biopic (wxrt.cbslocal.com)
- David Bowie Taps Tilda Swinton For Provocative New Video (wncx.cbslocal.com)
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