Song: Man of The WorldArtist: Fleetwood MacYear: 1969 Certainly from personal experience, discussions regarding Fleetwood Mac will almost inevitably lead to talk of the band’s latter incarnation as transatlantic purveyors of harmony-laden pop best evinced in the hugely successful 1977… Continue Reading
Unbeknown to many Bristolians is the actuality that, for many years, the suburb of Clifton once played host to the progeny of one of the world’s most brutal dictators. After fleeing for America in 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva’s journey of escape… Continue Reading
As he stands on the Louisiana stage, Oldham born Kiran Leonard’s unkempt visage of no shoes, odd socks, casual attire and a mop of ‘dragged-through-a-hedge’ blondish-brown hair, gives off the aura of an A-Level student basking in the slovenly bliss… Continue Reading
Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Four was the year that the mania truly began in earnest. The sheer adulation that greeted John, Paul, George and Ringo as their Pan Am flight touched down at JFK International Airport in February that year… Continue Reading
“It’s very hard to conceal the truth forever.” Just three hours after the bathetic formality of his Oprah Winfrey interview, these matter-of-fact words are spoken by disgraced seven time Tour De France winner Lance Armstrong to filmmaker Alex Gibney at… Continue Reading
Just five days after Bristol’s most famous music venue decided to go public with news regarding a new housing development that could compromise its future, it is business as usual at The Fleece as I meander through the busy,… Continue Reading
The Bristol Festival of Ideas, which is inviting nearly 100 writers, commentators and thinkers to share their expertise at 60 events over a densely packed May programme, continued with @Bristol’s hosting of Professor Sir David King. King is currently the… Continue Reading
The premise for ‘Slap Talk’ is certainly a novel one: Standing under spotlights at either end of a darkened stage and each speaking directly into a camera, a man and a woman rant, threaten and insult each other while their… Continue Reading