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Entries Tagged as 'Music'

Monday, March 17th, 2008

North Berwick High Goes “Back To The 80’s”

Mr Cocker  discovering that, in fact his “angel is a centrefold”.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am a huge fan of  80’s music. When I heard that North Berwick High School were putting on a performance of the musical ‘Back to the Eighties’ I knew I just had to get tickets.
‘Set in the [...]

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Witches Of Eastwick

On Friday night I went to watch my friend a colleague John Naples-Campbell star in The Witches Of Eastwick that was showing last week at the Churchill Theatre in Morningside. This musical was coordinated by the Tempo.
I would just like to congratulate John and the cast on their fabulous performance and I am very much [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Factoid 14: Music From The 1980’s

This isn’t really a factoid, but it is fact- I love 80s music!
Anyone who knows me well or who has travelled in my car will verify that! I like all types of music ranging from Debussy through to synthesised dance music. However, I have a particular passion for music from the 80’s and the guitars.
Over the [...]

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

How Good Is Your Hearing?

Alan Coady is a friend of mine. He is also a Guitar Instructor for East Lothian. His most recent post is very interesting. I think I need to do a bit of research.
In the mean time try this and leave Alan a comment.
I could hear a high pitched sound similar to that of a televison on a blank channel [...]

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

S6 Premiere: ‘In Holland Stands A House’

This evening I ventured back to Knox Academy. The S6 Drama class were performing a version of ‘In Holland Stands A House’ by Sue Saunders and directed by John Naples-Campbell. John is a good friend and colleague of mine who teaches Drama at Knox Academy.
This is one of the events leading up to National Holocaust Memorial [...]

Monday, August 27th, 2007

‘The Rosalba Duo’- Alan Coady and Rosalia Rodriguez-Vazquez

As we are now well into the first term of the session, I had planned to keep my festival doings to a minimum until the John Williams concert on the 31st of August, though I have been unable to get hold of tickets for the event. However, when I learned that my friend and colleague [...]

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Edinburgh Festival 2007

It is that time of year again where Edinburgh goes wild. Apparently the population triples over the three weeks of the Edinburgh Festival. In years gone passed I have always been one for sitting out in the Meadows watching the various happenings, or relaxing at the Pleasance waiting for the next batch of free preview [...]

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

London: The Sound Of Music

The Rogers and Hammerstein Musical ‘The Sound Of Music’, showing at The London Palladium, was our last stop on Wednesday evening. This was most certainly the highlight of the trip for me. Following the popular television show, ‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?’ Connie Fisher stars in the main role of Maria.
As [...]

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

London: We Will Rock You

I am a huge musicals fan so I was delighted to find out that the two we were going to were ones that I had not seen previously. Our last stop on Tuesday was the musical ‘We Will Rock You’ at London’s Dominion Theatre.
Quote Wikipedia:
We Will Rock You is a jukebox musical, based on [...]

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Billy Elliot The Musical

I am a huge fan of musicals and Concerts. I have been to see a number of them in the last year, my favourite being Avenue Q. However, while I was in London during Easter weekend I decided to go and watch Billy Elliot the Musical. It is based upon the original classic movie (by [...]