Baskery
Baskery played the last date of an extensive 2022 European tour at The John Peel Centre in Stowmarket, Suffolk
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Interview: Clare Free
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,…
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Interview: False Colours
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…
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Interview: Foz
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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Interview: Dave Thomas
Blues singer and guitarist Dave Thomas was born in Newport, South Wales but now resides in Norfolk. He runs the regular Fine City Blues sessions at The Louis Marchesi pub in Norwich – or at least he used to before the world turned upside down in March of this year. He played his first gig…
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Interview: Sarah Kathleen
The Hunter Club in Bury St Edmunds, unbeknownst to me then, became a personal Covid milestone. Back in February and March 2020 I covered BurySOUND, somehow managing to end up on the judging panel of the competition. Round five of BurySOUND at The Hunter Club turned out to be the last gig I photographed before…
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Interview: John Marshall-Potter
I conduct interviews in the strangest of places. Last night’s chat withJohn Marshall-Potter of FolkEast took place in a field, in the dark and in the rain. John had parked his truck and trailer beside a tree. Not any old tree, but THE tree. The old dead oak that is dressed every year in July…
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Interview: Anne Marit Bergheim
I have a confession to make. I only discovered Katzenjammer recently, and only because I was purchasing music online by another Scandinavian band – the well know online shop suggested that I might like to look at… I did and I was hooked. But I have yet to see them play live – something I…
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Interview: Jean-Jacques Burnel
My telephone interview with JJ Burnel of The Stranglers, one of the most continuously successful band to come out of the punk era, got off to a shaky bi-lingual start but that was just his way of testing me, soon we were talking comfortabaly about the world we live in, venues and advice for upcoming…
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Interview: Jon Parker
I first interviewed Jon Parker some years ago when he was backing Jake Morley on a tour. More recently we bumped into each other at FolkEast where Jon was playing with The Will Pound Band. The band are just about to embark on their first tour so it seemed the right time to chat again….
