The fifth Ramsbottom Festival was an absolute corker. We loved it so much we made a film. It’s pretty good. And includes interviews with tons of bands and singers including The Magic Numbers, The Proclaimers, John...
Read MoreHe’s a folk singer-songwriter and virtuoso fiddler whose music dwells on rural myths, eerie legends and sweeping landscapes. So it comes as some surprise to learn that the first album Seth Lakeman ever bought was Bon...
Read MoreI have a bone to pick with Melvyn Bragg. In another life, I used to go to all sorts of posh events. There was the time a friend and I tried to inveigle our way into the V-VIP room at the Moulin Rouge after-party (there’s...
Read MoreOne day last month I woke up in an asylum. OK, it was a former asylum. St Mary’s Inn is a pub-cum-B&B near Morpeth in Northumberland. It calls itself a place with ‘tradition at its heart’ which is certainly...
Read MoreIt may sound a bit twee, but my garden is my sanctuary. Whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed, overworked or overwrought, I open the back door, step outside and immediately feel better. The mental health benefits of gardens and...
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