Coast is excited to announce The Sweet Caroline Tour: A Tribute to Neil Diamond tour!
Neil Diamond - the consummate American singer-songwriter whose deep,
Jimmy and Anne McClelland â now retired and living in the coastal town of Amanzimtoti, outside Durban in South Africa â met at the Orpheus Ballroom in York Street in Belfast in 1964.
Both were from north Belfast, Anne a Catholic, Jimmy a Protestant and Orange Order member. They fell for each other quickly.
âWe just got on so well,â says Anne.
They tell their story in Exiles for Love, a book published by the Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association, about couples who felt the only escape from the bitterness was to quit Northern Ireland.
When they decided to get married Anne asked Jimmy how he felt about âturningâ â converting to Catholicism.
How would you sum up this new album then Kevin? Down the phone there is a pause. “I thought you’d be able to do that,” the voice answers. “I don’t think I could.” Kevin Rowland is in a car at the end of the day. He isn’t driving. At least I don’t think he is driving. It doesn’t occur to me to ask. He is definitely chewing on something as he speaks. That’s between chewing up the questions I’m asking him. Dexys have a new album coming out. It’s called Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul. That’s as good a way to sum it up as any, I guess. It’s good enough for Rowland certainly. “It’s in the title,” he tells me.