‘All My Days’ album launch at Winston School I have been privileged over the years, as a photographer, with access to venues and parts of venues that the general public find difficult to reach. Some places leave unexpected memories, those unplanned, unscripted moments that create the great patchwork of life. One such place is a…
An interview with cyber sensation Art Intel. Unless you have missed your springtime alarm and are still hibernating under last winter’s duvet you cannot have missed the two mega buzzwords doing the rounds in the media: Artificial Intelligence. Depending on the author’s viewpoint ‘AI’ can be anything from “a really cool tool to make life…
The Hunter Club Bar & Venue has become my ‘local’ for the last four weeks. Can a venue fifteen miles from home be considered local? It’s another Friday night, heat 4 of BurySOUND and I’m slightly disappointed that Esme Emerson have had to drop out. Yes folks, Covid is still lurking in the wings and…
A Bury rapper better known in London than his hometown became the first act to make it through to the final of BurySOUND 2023. Ev impressed the judges with his stage presence, rap and singing blend and lyrics, to win heat one of this competition, now in its twenty-fifth year. The judges had to decide…
The Commitments Musical – Ipswich Regent ‘The Commitments’ and I have history. I was born and bred in Dublin. In the 1980s, where this story is set, my wife and I had started a family. It wasn’t until the late 90s that, flicking through TV channels late one evening, I came across a brilliant ‘filim’…
Beauty and The Beast: Mercury Theatre Love them or loath them, you can’t avoid them at this time of year. Yes, I’m talking about Pantomime. Once, when I was very new to Grapevine Magazine, I offered to cover eight Pantos in one season. It was a worthwhile educational experience, as I discovered that no two…
I recently had the privilege of chatting with British blues guitarist Clare Free to find our what her plans are now that we are all getting back to something like normal living. TB: How are you Clare? CF: Surviving is the best I can say, I’m very much feeling on the up at the moment,…
Taking to enthusiastic, passionate people about music is one of the significant benefits that comes with working in the live entertainment industry. They don’t come much more enthusiastic than Polly and David who together are False Colours. The duo began to get noticed performing their own material in 2019, they were getting more gigs, headline…
Grapevine Magazine, the East of England’s entertainment guide, turns thirty this month. To kick off a year of birthday celebrations, Tony Bell turns the tables and interviews Stephen ‘Foz’ Foster, a man well known for interviewing others on radio, and someone who has been writing for Grapevine Magazine since issue one. TB: How did you…
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