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Kristy Gallacher should be "top of a record company’s ‘must-sign’ "- Nuneaton Tribune

2009-11-23T19:24:23Z

Somewhere below is our own review of Coventry singer songwriter Kristy Gallacher, written by Wayne Spencer but this one in the Nuneaton Tribune is worth taking a look at. Tribune reviewer Emma Ray says - "Gallacher really is the real deal, and...

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WHERE TO FIND INFO ON A COVENTRY BAND

2007-04-09T13:36:16Z

UPDATED LINKS AND BANDS 22nd Nov 09 (MORE TO COME) Asterix denotes new update This is a new work in progress - and will take a while to compile crocodile. New Starting to add solo artists at the bottom of this. Below is an A to Z of Coventry from...

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Colosseum and Jack Bruce at the Lanch - Excerpt from Jon Hiseman's forthcoming biography

2009-11-17T00:39:22Z

January 24th 2010 will mark the 40th anniversary of the historic performances by Colosseum with The New Jazz Orchestra and Jack Bruce and Friends at the Lanchester Arts Festival in Coventry 1970. I was lucky enough to have seen that concert at ...

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Kristy Gallacher - at Warwick Arts Centre 13 Nov 09

2009-11-15T20:11:31Z

Kristy Gallacher is a name to look out for on the current Coventry music scene. This popular young singer songwriter has developed quite a musical career for herself before and after gaining a degree in Musical Composition at Coventry Universi...

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HEY UP! WHAT'S THE CRACK?

2007-07-15T15:16:15Z

Another performance poem published in my book Nightfall in Sorrento HEY UP! WHAT'S THE CRACK? There's ghost inertia on the fringe of passion The Art of Martial sex is well in fashion Through Venetian specs with special effects You get sex by tex...

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Hope and Anchor - Historic Music Venue - Threat of Demolition

2009-10-26T22:44:51Z

The Hope And Anchor pub in Whitefriars Lane (Central Coventry) is under threat of demolition. Musicians and music fans in the city are protesting the loss of the historic venue that enabled the Enemy and Two Tone bands to get started. Now own...

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Monty Python at the Belgrade Theatre - BBC Coventry Report

2009-10-10T13:56:22Z

HOW COOL! BBC RADIO COVENTRY COVER THE COLIN RICHARDSON MONTY PYTHON STORY http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/articles/2009/10/08/monty_python_feature.shtml Hannah Tobin of BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire got in contact with Colin Rich...

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Harry Nilsson - now there was a nice guy!

2009-08-10T11:13:49Z

Harry was probably my most favourite interviewee. Initial contact was made through one of those 'friend of a friend' situations..I think the L.A. connection was Don Reo, the TV writer and producer, (M.A.S.H., Golden Girls etc), who was a friend ...

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Monty Python's First Ever Live Performance - Belgrade Theatre, Coventry - The Story behind it! PT 6

2009-08-09T13:09:42Z

Colin Richardson - the booking agent from Bron responsible for booking many of the acts for the Coventry Lanchester Arts Festival in the early 70's tells the story of how 'How a modest little Polytechnic in Coventry came to be favoured with such...

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Asgard - More archive photos and John Peel cutting 1970

2009-04-07T15:23:03Z

ASGARD - were a Coventry band in the style of Pink Floyd / Nice operating around 1969 - 71 period who were promoted by John Peel and played a number of prestigious gigs - eg Mothers in Birmingham after Pink Floyd and with Peel and Hyde Park etc. ...

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