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Oliver Dowden is clearly floundering with the arts. Perhaps the world’s greatest living standup could help…

Guitarist Pat Metheny Is Not Defined, And Still Undecided Sure, Pat is on "perpetual output" mode. But hes still figuring out this music thing like the rest of us. Share May 14, 2021 Pat Metheny is a talker. True, his fame is tied up in his identity as a guitarist, but trust me when I say that even the slightest mental nudge will set Metheny down a conversational path, philosophizing about artistry and music. It’s evident after spending even a few minutes watching old interviewers featuring t...

THE FREE-IMPROVISING pianist Georg Graewe was born in Bochum in 1956, where his parents ran a pub just 50 miles away from the British Forces Radio Station in Cologne. At that time “it was the entire, mostly British rock scene I was listening to,” he says.”The Beatles, Stones, Who, Georgie Fame and later Cream and Hendrix. I bugged my parents into buying me a guitar when I was eight and started on piano at 12.” At 15, he joined a rock band but “they already had a good guitarist, so I g...

Stewart Lee ’s celestial choices. Plus reanimated Brummies, maverick maestros and some fine fiddling A year pre-Covid, outside Islington’s Hope & Anchor on a summer evening to see mod punk classicists The Fallen Leaves, the board unexpectedly promises “support from Cult Figures”. Not the Birmingham band that made two singles in 1979 then disappeared? Yes! Released in 2018, The 166 Ploughs A Lonely Furrow was the album Cult Figures should have made in 1980, but 2021’s Deritend is a s...

Last modified on Tue 23 Mar 2021 14.35 EDT In 1971 John Russell left the remote Romney Marshes of Kent for London’s booming avant-arts scene as a 17-year-old blues and Frank Zappa fan, and was soon playing the guitar in such unrecognisable ways that even his contrarian Mothers of Invention hero might have raised an eyebrow. Russell, who has died aged 66 of cancer, was the polar opposite of a guitar star - an obdurate original in the spiky mould of his influential teacher and mentor Derek Bail...

More intense still, free jazz improviser and my good friend and old work-mate, John Russell, has also recently left the building. He played alongside many of the greats of his somewhat esoteric world, including Derek Bailey, Thurston Moore, Lol Coxhill, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, Fred Frith and many more. A diamond geezer. Mysterious Todmorden UFO cases of Alan Godfrey & Zigmund Adamski – with Collin Lyall & Andy Kershaw. A new video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th03A2QS98A&fbclid=IwA...

DAT Electric Vans Proteus Van At Derek Automotive Dealership 2nd View Derek Automotive Technologies, Inc. Corporate Logo Derek Automotive Technologies Will Pursue a Regulated-Crowdfunding and Direct-Public Listing for DAT Electric Vans in 2021. The company that starts with a T made electric vehicles cool... Derek Automotive Technologies is making them convenient for consumers to own.” — Derek BaileyPHILADELPHIA, PA, USA, December 28, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Hot on the heels of the compet...

A team of experts from New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences recently led a virtual discussion on artificial intelligence in agriculture as part of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture’s convention held last month. Rolando A. Flores, dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University, was one of the presenters at the Inter-American Institute ...