Hints and tips:
...Kate Griffin’s exuberant debut novel, Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, was a glorious romp through the seedy yet irresistible world of the East End music halls of 1880s London....
...Unigram is named as an in-joke after the fictional record label in the film, a cocaine-addled vipers’ nest of back-stabbers and cut-throats....
...Over the road, at the storied and sometimes tragic Viper Room, Hollywood’s jeunesse dorée would come down from the hills to feign musical talent well into the new millennium....
...The last music I downloaded was the “One night in…” playlist by my friend, the writer and prolific playlist-maker Teju Cole....
...My mother shaped my love of music and books by playing Beethoven and reading a lot. My father was brilliant at buying me books....
...On the big terrace, a DJ pumped out house music while uniformed staff danced and clapped enthusiastically and the wealthy guests sat looking at their phones....
...In February, the PLA’s air force released a music video of a song called “My War Eagles are Circling the Treasure Island” featuring aerial footage of Taiwan....
...The first, “Striking Vipers”, is the least complex....
...He emphasises that the band tries to perform “substantial music” rather than cabaret....
...In that respect Goat Girl live up to their saturnalian name: the spirit of misrule runs through their music. ★★★★☆ goatgirl.co.uk...
...From £1,631, kettal.com And the thing I am eyeing next is a Porsche 911 GT3 in Viper Green....
...But it is John Findon as Januarie who ultimately makes this show, gamely offering himself up for mockery, and yet reminding us that if there’s anyone in this viper-pit of characters who deserves sympathy...
...Allen Toussaint American Tunes (Nonesuch) The late American pianist’s final recording is steeped in the bittersweet joys of New Orleans music....
...It is this music that makes his History of the Crusades a masterpiece. Runciman saw the century through, born in 1903, dying in 2000....
...The Viper Room is also a great small place to see music and seems to be coming back into fashion. Then there’s the Troubadour, where Hendrix and Dylan used to play – I love the feel of the place....
...Butler, Bernstein & the Hot Nine Viper’s Drag (Impulse)...
...The music is pulled between frontwoman Basia Derlak’s folkloric tendencies – the songs mull over poisoning a husband with a viper and being stood up by a river god – and the recalcitrant traditional jazz...
...Snakes probably cannot hear music but they react to the movement of the charmer’s head and musical instrument....
...Bechet recorded sweet-toned, somewhat jaunty dance music with the Noble Sissle Orchestra, although authentic jazz subtleties and insidious rhythms returned when he used his own band to record “Viper Mad”...
...Iride Martínez’s Norina is equally convincing as pretend nun and viper unleashed, and shows agility running up and down her scales as far as a high E flat....
...You only have to read Dylan’s vivid character sketches (“Chloe …cool as pie, hip from head to toe, a Maltese kitten, a solid viper”) to know that he is in script-writing rather than confessional mode, and...
...In the mountains there were vipers, rattlesnakes and African bees. “Put the following tips into your active memory right now,” reads Funch’s handbook on the area....
...In Soho I had discovered jazz and skiffle and had played substitute washboard on the radio with the Vipers, who later became The Shadows....
...One woman can quaintly “hear” countries and continents the way other people appreciate the textures of music, but is “dangerous as a viper”....
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