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Daisy Game chats to Andrew Ward, founder of Bath-based ukulele band Uke Can’t Be Serious. It’s not easy being the...
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Words by Melissa BleaseBath Racecourse, Saturday 4 June Properly charismatic frontmen (as in, those almost other-worldly characters who own a...
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A deep-and-meaningful with devout northern soul Richard Hawley – on life and death, chess and underdogs, ploughing your own furrow and fraternising with Fontaines D.C. Words by Amanda Nicholls. Rock ’n’ roll’s silver-tongued Sheffield crooner is running late. It’s not that he’s hungover or apt to prima donna behaviour even...
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Seb Bailey, who studied Music Technology at Bath College, has just finished a residency as the Early Morning Breakfast presenter...
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Once upon a time there were seven children who were all talented musicians and they were all part of the...
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The course of good jazz never did run smooth: Daisy Game catches up with Empirical’s double bassist Tom Farmer ahead of the jazz band’s appearance at the Bath Festival. Jazz: it hasn’t got the most likeable of reputations. Associated with a kind of intellectualism, the music is often considered a little...
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Dvorak’s American Suite and Hannah Kendall’s The Spark Catchers are two of the pieces being performed by Sir Simon Rattle...
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Celebrating music and books in a beautiful city, this year’s Bath Festival will run from 13–21 May – here we...
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Justin Webb, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, grew up in Bath in the 1970s. Emma Clegg talks to him about his new book, which tells the story of a childhood dominated by a difficult decade and challenging personalities. It’s the story of one boy and one strange family....
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Producer and sound engineer Stephen W Tayler has worked with artists from Kate Bush to Peter Gabriel and his career...
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Nigel Perrin, musical director of the Bath Bach Choir, talks choral music, conducting, music venues, and appealing to a contemporary...
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British choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne has been creating and directing dance for musicals, theatre and film as well as his own award-winning companies for 30 years. Melissa Blease uncovers the man behind the magic. A richly textured, super-sensual zone where creativity, imagination, love, humanity, wit and beauty are all celebrated,...