Hints and tips:
...Bolger’s multigenerational cast spill out their woes in turn; all the drama here is in the past, not the present. A live band plays folk songs and ’80s chart hits; the audience sings along, softly....
...When Cecil Sharp, founder of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, started giving lectures on the folk tradition, he invited dancers from Canning Town to attend, to offer illustrative demonstrations....
...But then many film-makers would argue that movies should be consumed differently from music: a song is a song wherever you play it, whereas films were built for the big screen....
...“At Christmas, I like songs to be cheesy but also kind of tongue-in-cheek.” Seeing Santa impaled by a Flying V guitar, as in the “Zombie Christmas” video, is some tongue in some cheek....
...The V&A show should provide a masterclass in the art of self-invention....
...human urban society, a kind of Lonely Planet guide for the otherworldly....
...and equal laws”, “the agricultural, mechanical and labouring classes of society”....
...WE SHALL OVERCOME: The Seeger Sessions Bruce Springsteen Columbia The Boss has let his hair down and made his best album in ages, a collection of American folk songs recorded in his farmhouse with a gang...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...THE MISSION SONG by John le Carre Hodder & Stoughton ₤17.99, 352 pages With the cold war now a distant memory, le Carre seems to be concentrating on Africa as the stage for his plots of international skulduggery...
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