Popular music
Unique memento of Beatlemania to go under the hammer
Fifty years ago – at the height of Beatlemania – Swindon music lover Joan Britton made her way to Heathrow airport to watch John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr board a flight to New York at the … Continue reading
Autograph book Please Pleases auction house bidders
Fifty years after the release of The Beatles’ debut album – Please Please Me – Beatlemania continues to grip the saleroom of antiques auctioneers Moore Allen & Innocent in Cirencester. A book of autographs including the signatures of George Harrison, … Continue reading
Electric Swing Circus plug in to co-operation
A Birmingham band who fuse 1920s and 30s jazz with modern dance beats, circus skills and burlesque dancing are getting toes tapping across the UK – just six months after their launch. Bypassing the traditional trudge around small venues, Electric … Continue reading
Don’t fret: pluck this antique guitar at auction
A rare wartime guitar – played by a member of an award-winning dance band and used to accompany the Glenn Miller Orchestra – will be sold at a Cotswolds auction later this month. The Super 400 is so unusual because the manufacturer, … Continue reading
SOUNDkitchen serve up a taste of co-operation
A group of composers and performers who hear music in everyday sounds have formed a co-operative to expose their art to a wider audience. Birmingham-based SOUNDkitchen make and perform experimental electroacoustic music created from the sounds of the world around … Continue reading
Teens take crash course in street arts
Forty teenagers took a crash course in street dancing, graffiti art painting and film making as part of the recent Street Dance Marlborough event. During the event, which was organised by We Love Marlborough, teenagers aged eleven to eighteen from … Continue reading
A chance to snap up iconic pup Nipper
With profits plunging 25 percent this year and the proposed closure of 40 retail outlets, the future looks bleak for music group HMV. Yet the company’s mascot – who in 2000 earned himself a place in the Top 10 Famous … Continue reading