01/10/2023 by Peter Viney
Review of Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp on their Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour. (LINKED). It started at the Tivoli, Wimborne in Robert Fripp’s home town. It goes on through October around the country. Tickets are going fast! Full set list and review.
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30/09/2023 by Peter Viney
The third article on the Parlophone label at AROUND AND AROUND, Parlophone- sleeves and labels is linked here. Of all labels, the value and interest of Beatles singles make this the most researched record label of all.
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26/09/2023 by Peter Viney
People have been reading my two humorous articles on my 1960s grammar school education:
Eng Lit in Britain Past
Language Learning in Britain Past
I decided to add a third one on Music, Art & Divinity (follow the link). Feel free to comment on the page.
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25/09/2023 by Peter Viney
After The Globe’s poor ‘Macbeth’ we move from the ridiculous (Macbeth) to the sublime. AS YOU LIKE IT (follow link to review) is the perfect Globe production. We thought it easily the best Shakespeare production this year. Read the review … and it’s running till 29 October and you can always get into the Globe, either seating at the sides or standing. It’s exuberant, creative and stimulating.
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25/09/2023 by Peter Viney
It’s a mystery to me, but I’ve seen far more poor versions of Macbeth than good ones. This review is the current Shakespeare’s Globe production of Macbeth, linked here. Follow link to the review. If you want a taste of what follows, check these quotes from the programme by the dramaturg:
Macbeth represents the emerging capitalist order –
This rationalism which came to define the logic of capitalism has brought us the climate crisis –
European colonialism was reshaping the world – built on a culture of cultivation in complete ignorance and denigration of the practices of non-Europeans –
The misogyny of witch hunts and the racism of white supremacy are thus closely entwined-
Human means white male classically educated and able-bodied –
The food we eat from beef to chocolate is driving deforestation –
These are allegedly comments on Shakespeare’s play!
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23/09/2023 by Peter Viney
At AROUND AND AROUND the second article on Parlophone goes from The Beatles to 1973.
LINK HERE: https://aroundandaroundcom.wordpress.com/parlophone-part-two/
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20/09/2023 by Peter Viney
I’ve updated my 2016 piece on surveys. We didn’t know anything then. Please read … and complete the survey. LINKED HERE.
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19/09/2023 by Peter Viney
A nostalgic and hopefully humorous piece on public children’s playgrounds of the 1950s. LINK HERE TO READ IT.
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18/09/2023 by Peter Viney
At AROUND AND AROUND, the first of several articles on the EMI Parlophone label, Parlophone- Part one (linked) . This first one is before The Beatles appearance in October 1962. Why was it EMI’s “third label”? Was it all novelty and comedy?
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15/09/2023 by Peter Viney
Link to my review of Jean-Philippe Daguerre’s play FAREWELL MISTER HAFFMAN. This is the British premiere of the 2018 French play which was laden with awards. It’s set in Paris in 1942, where the jeweller Joseph Haffman, who is Jewish, gives his shop to his French employee, Pierre. He will hide in the cellar below the shop. In return, the sterile Pierre insists Joseph impregnate Isabelle, his wife. Then we meet the Nazi Ambassador to France … It’s a wonderful production at Bath’s Ustinov Studio, with a theatrical A-list cast.
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