Credit: Maxwell Grainger
If the love letter has not been entirely cast aside in the 21st Century, it is at least an art form that appears to be dying on the vine. For legendary electronic and experimental record label Ninja Tune (Young Fathers, Bonobo, Bicep), however, it seems the charms of a seven-piece band with two singles was enough to bring out the sweet nothings.
âIt was super emotional,â Tyler Hyde recalls of the missive sent to Black Country, New Road, the bassist tells
NME via Zoom from her parentsâ house in Essex. âNo one else who was offering us a deal was expressing feelings in this kind of way. They didnât need to go out of their way to do that, and they did.â
Share
Together with her mother Antonina Podhoretz, she was able to flee to a nearby town where they hid in a former pig sty.
Nelly spent the rest of the war in hiding and eventually made the passage to the UK.
However her father died at the hands of the Nazis at the Janowska concentration camp.
Nelly said: I remember the whole cloud of horror, I lost my father - he was murdered in a horrific place by the Nazis.
Nelly and her mother, Antonina Podhoretz, managed to survive the rest of the war by hiding in a village and living in a former pig sty, but her father was tragically murdered by the Nazis
TWO stellar musicians will continue the top series of concerts held by Rhyl Music Club in 2021. Saxophonist Jonathan Redford and pianist Ashley Fripp performed in Rhyl to great acclaim last year and will return with a mesmerising jazz show on February 10. The free-to-watch recital, titled ‘Melody Maker Rudy Wiedoeft and the Age of the Saxophone Craze’, will see the duo recite a selection of songs including Ring-Hager arr. Rudy Wiedoeft: Danse Hongroise, Savino/Wiedoeft: Dans L’Orient , Schulhof: Hot-Sonate, Wiedoeft: Llewellyn Walz, Weill: Selection from Threepenny Opera, Wiedoeft: Marilyn Walzer, Shostakovich: Waltz 2 from Jazz Suite No.2 and Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue.
Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 09.47 EST
Speaking from Austin, Texas, a tranquil but talkative Lennie James, 55, reclines in his chair. Best known for his morally ambiguous portrayals of Gates in Line Of Duty, Nelly in Save Me (a drama he also wrote) and Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead, heâs there filming the showâs spin-off, Fear The Walking Dead. He muses on a conversation about Covid-19 he had recently, with a friend in New Zealand. âI told her the numbers were going up and she said, âWhat numbers?â Thatâs how far away this all seems to them,â he laughs incredulously. We are waiting for Paapa Essiedu to enter the video call. He joins, beaming from his north London home, complaining of laptop trouble. Another familiar pandemic occurrence.