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A JAZZ lover who has organised performances at Goring village hall for 21 years has decided to retire. John Calvert, 79, has arranged the monthly concerts on Fr...

BEING a young teenager in early 1960s Brighton was great fun and every year was different.

The Beatles' George Harrison asked a rock star an interesting question before getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Wyn Drabble: Still in search of penguins 19 May, 2021 06:00 PM 4 minutes to read Wyn Drabble is on the lookout for penguins. Photo / NZME NZ Herald In his book Land of Two Halves, Joe Bennett said, "Oamaru is Timaru with penguins." Well, not any more. Timaru has its own penguins and they are at the port end of Caroline Bay. Timaru's penguins even have a website and from it I learned all the collective terms that can be used for penguins. I can't vouch for their accuracy but I'm willing to take the list at face value (please don't write in). The most common collective is colo...

Mac on black 45 Views Original mods liked jazz. That’s where the word came from: modernism. In Britain, the beef between mods and rockers had been prefigured in the 50s by modernists – fans of modern jazz – vs traditionalists – acolytes of trad, Dad. I don’t know if this amounted to bike chains on Margate beach (BAM! SOCK! WHAM! THAT’S FOR PLAYING 42 CHORUSES OF TIGER RAG!) but the argument was heartfelt. I’m not quite old enough to remember this in person, but my musical memory stretches back as far as my mum and dad buying the Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazzmen album...