06/07/2023 by Peter Viney
Link to Adrienne Kennedy & Adam Kennedy’s play MOM, HOW DID YOU MEET THE BEATLES? (follow link to review) at Chichester Minerva Theatre. Rakie Ayola performs as Adrienne Kennedy in this autobiographical piece. Kennedy was an award-winning US playwright who came to London in 1966 to write a play based on John Lennon’s In My Own Write / A Spaniard In The Works. She got Lennon, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Tynan, Victor Spinetti and George Martin involved. In a couple of words, they ripped her off.
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21/06/2023 by Peter Viney
Review of SPIRIT FAMILY REUNION (follow link) at Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock NY. A tremendous show, one of the most exciting bands i’ve seen in years.
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07/06/2023 by Peter Viney
Review of ASSASSINS by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman at Chichester Festival Theatre. Follow this link to the review. It’s on through the next three weeks. It’s a fantastic show, with the theatrical space transformed too. Unmissable.
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02/06/2023 by Peter Viney
A personal history of me and my wine experiences from the earliest times, good, bad and indifferent with many asides, anecdotes and extracts . FOLLOW THIS LINK TO READ IT
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21/05/2023 by Peter Viney
For more wallowing in Transistor nostalgia, a new article on RADIO LUXEMBOURG 208 (follow link) is now live on AROUND AND AROUND. Article by Paul F. Newman with illustrations and additions by me.
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20/05/2023 by Peter Viney
New on AROUND AND AROUND. Pirate Radio of the 1960s in Britain. (FOLLOW LINK)
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14/05/2023 by Peter Viney
FOLLOW THE LINK to the review of PRIVATE LIVES by Noël Coward at the Donmar Warehouse in London. This production has Steven Mangan and Rachael Stirling in the lead roles, with tremendous support from Laura Carmichael and Sargon Yelda as the newly married and abandoned second spouses. it’s still on. It’s hard to get tickets but well worth the effort if you can.
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12/05/2023 by Peter Viney
Noël Coward’s THE VORTEX (follow this link to the review) is at Chichester Festival Theatre. It stars Lia Williams and Joshua James playing the mother and son in a play, when they are real-life mother and son. This is a powerful play, and it’s the third time I’ve seen a production, and this one really makes sense of it. It starts out as typical Coward and descends to a much darker level. Highly recommended if you can get to Chichester- you would have got seats at today’s matinee, not the best ones, but you can see well anywhere in this theatre.
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10/05/2023 by Peter Viney
Another new page at AROUND AND AROUND. Vogue Picture Disc (FOLLOW LINK) was an American label that existed for just over a year in 1946 to 1947. They produced 74 picture discs, all running at 78 rpm, and a form of vinyl, not shellac. They had a wide range of artists and different illustrations on each side. They are highly collectible for the art, which is why they are in the Art of the LP section.
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08/05/2023 by Peter Viney
Article with many illustrations on RECORD STORE DAY (S) -follow link – now live at AROUND AND AROUND. It traces the history and the ethos.
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