Category: Music

The White Stuff

I’m going to shut my eyes and you are going to write down your three favourite musicals.

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Paul Who?

A 20th century author (1897 –  1976) who wrote more than forty books, lots adapted for film, TV and the wireless, had four wives, two children and he has never been mentioned in almost 2,600 posts – incroyable!

Walking to Rome

This is Francis Plowden’s debut album. I hope you heard Lockdown Blues yesterday. He is a natural successor to Lance Percival whose improvised satirical calypsos were favourites of mine.

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Old Friends

A Sondheim acolyte is as committed as the most devoted Wagnerian.

A State of Grace

A friend from America was visiting London recently. I took him to The Grenadier for a Bloody Mary, Ognisko (aka the Polish Hearth Club) for lunch and Opera Holland Park (for Hansel and Gretel). He also was taken by the Judge to the White’s tent at (Royal) Ascot, ticking a 4th box of things he… Continue reading A State of Grace

A Rap on the Knuckles

My first school was in Castlebellingham, just a thirteen minute drive from Barmeath. My mother always took the blue route through Annagassan and along the coast to Castlebellingham.

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