Despite last week’s bad mood, I thoroughly enjoyed an hour or two of glitz and glamour (if not actual stardom) when the East Bristol Chorus took to the stage for our Christmas Concert. As far as I know it didn’t even make the local press, so here’s an impressionistic view of the proceedings at Emersons Green Village Hall as we … Continue reading Last choir standing
Hello everyone and sorry it’s been a while. The sad truth is that I have been caught up in a job interview situation which has completely messed with my writing head and taken up all mental space for a good couple of weeks. Having fallen at the final hurdle it now seems like a so … Continue reading Not so light relief
Best mate and I recently joined a choir – strictly for fun – and fun it thas been, though now that the night of our first ever concert is approaching and I still haven’t really grasped the alto line of Bohemian Rhapsody (!), I am starting to get butterflies. Now a bad throat has also … Continue reading Musical Interlude
A hasty post so that you can all read Shirley Wright’s prize-winning poem in the Sunday Telegraph Poetry for Performance competition. All the prize-winning poems were printed in yesterday’s paper (p.20!) where Shirley’s was highly praised by Ben Okri. All the short-listed poems can be read on the website. Shirley’s winning entry, ‘My Father’ is … Continue reading Poetry for Performance
Several years ago we happened to be in Amsterdam during the fantastic Van Gogh and Gaugin exhibition ‘The Studio of the South’. The paintings were sublime and the audio commentary fascinating, so this painting (thanks Wikipedia commons) makes a fitting finale for my yellow week. Meanwhile, issue 1 of The Yellow Room has arrived and I leapt … Continue reading Yellow period ends soon
