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60th birthday at an iconic venue

Last night I attended the 60th birthday of an old friend held at the Clissold Arms Fortis Green, East Finchley. Not just another local. Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks lived opposite and the first and last musical sessions of the Kinks in 1960 an 1996 were played there. The room where we ate our [...]

February 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Lalaland- worth 7 Golden Globes?

The short answer is no. To justify these accolades a musical must have a better score and Lalaland barely has one memorable song. Think of the great MGM musicals of the fifties, Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady, Gigi and the songs are memorable. The much and justifiably revived Oliver! does not [...]

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of ‘making up your own rules’

One of the great things about the Rust – and it took a while to dawn upon me – is our laissez-faire editorial policy. When I first joined I found it all rather disconcerting. Indeed I found I wasn’t by any means the only correspondent who had initially felt it that represented [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Can we fast-forward exactly twelve months please?

Well, thank God that’s over – and I don’t even believe in Him! You can call me Scrooge, or worse, if you like but I always find the second half of December going into the New Year as an ordeal and this one’s been no different to any other. It’s one of the most challenging periods of the [...]

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Blue and Lonesome – review

Last week I posted briefly about the imminent launch of the Rolling Stones’ new album Blue and Lonesome, an unexpected but (for some) welcome return to their early roots in blues and rhythm and blues. This further report comes in the wake of at last receiving my Amazon pre-ordered copy which I [...]

December 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

They’re always playing ‘START ME UP’ somewhere …

Being a fan of old-style Rhythm & Blues – rather than the modern hip-hop variety – I’ve been a fan/follower of the Rolling Stones down the ages ever since they first crossed my radar, probably at some point in 1963 a few weeks or months after the Beatles. I won’t provide here a summary [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Concert at Brighton Dome/ the London Philarmonic

Before I review this concert which was chiefly the work of Jean Sibelius, I would like to add my ha’pporth to the continuing debate of attendance v stay at home in the context of a classical music. The argument might be that it is preferable to stay in and enjoy the same pieces on a state of [...]

October 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Yesterday it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It says plenty about both the stature and importance of both Dylan and the Nobel Prize organisation itself that – save perhaps among some groups of literary elitist critics, pedants and those whose [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

To Get Back, or not to get back

Being roughly ten years younger than the Beatles, when they first burst upon national British consciousness I immediately became an obsessive wide-eyed fan of theirs in a male ‘from a safe distance, middle class, watching on TV, listening on radio, reading the newspapers and magazines, always [...]

September 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

It might as well have been a lost weekend …

On Thursday 21st July I posted on the Rust a brief preview of forthcoming a 60-minute documentary The Origin Of The Species by Julien Temple on the early life of Keith Richards the Rolling Stones guitarist that was to be broadcast on BBC2 last Saturday night. In it I made no secret of my long-held [...]

July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

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