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Another slice of Bob Dylan

As I have mentioned previously, there’s a certain irony to holding down a post as music correspondent when I’m of advanced years, set in my ways, effectively tone deaf, regard classical music as just a posh form of muzak (aka ‘elevator music’) that is played in supermarkets, public toilets [...]

September 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Zulu

I first saw Zulu as a birthday treat in 1964 and it has remained one of my favourite films. The other afternoon, after subscribing to Netflicks and being disappointed by their American bias, I streamed Zulu as it would be five years since I last watched it. I was not disappointed. First and [...]

September 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Popularity in the arts

In recent posts in the Rust,  popularity in the arts has been discussed in the context of Daphne du Maurier ‘s writing and Edward Seago. Popularity itself does not mean a writer or artist is second rate. Critics who often fail to make living from their art or writing are sometimes scathing [...]

September 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

An opportunity missed

There is a particular track on the 1986 Van Morrison album No Guru, No Method, No Teacher that resonates with me for entirely personal and sentimental reasons. A couple of months ago I was talking to a lady of about my own age who works in the local travel agents’ shop. Over the course of some [...]

September 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

The longest night

For reasons which need not concern readers of National Rust – they don’t really concern me either – I was up earlier than normal overnight. At 11.40pm to be precise, having gone to bed just two hours previously. A by-product is that I have been able to tune in to Radio Five Live’s Scotland [...]

September 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Welcome back to the past

I am reliably informed that ITV’s global smash hit Downton Abbey, written by Julian Fellowes, returns to UK screens this coming weekend in the form of (is it?) a fifth series. Reflecting upon the potentially far-reaching implications of the Scotland independence referendum and sundry other [...]

September 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Edward Seago

Edward Seago was a popular artist, led an interesting life and knew well circus performers as well as the Royal Family but sadly the biography by Jean Goodman does him little justice. It is billed as as a wider canvas drawing on the writings of his brother John a humane trapper of animals in Kenya. [...]

September 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Guys and Dolls/ Chichester Festival Theatre

This was a traditional interpretation of the 1950 musical but all the better for that. It took no liberties with costume or characterisation but exploited the basic qualities of an enduring and much loved musical. It has the requisite of 3 great songs, a strong plot line and an interesting litany [...]

September 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Daytona/Theatre Royal Brighton and on tour

It’s not everybody – not even Robert Tickler- who gets prime billing on the Rust two days running and, folks, I will be reviewing Guys and Dolls at the Chichester Festival Theatre on Saturday for Sunday. Daytona is a play written by actor Oliver Cotton. Set in Brooklyn in 1985, the [...]

September 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Dorfman Theatre

Last night I was invited to the opening night of the Dorfman Theatre, formerly the Cottosloe. This consummated the sponsorship of Lloyd Dorfman and the company he founded Travelex with the National Theatre. Travelex tickets at £10 have been available since 2003. The Dorfman Theatre was the [...]

September 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

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