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Celtic Connections

In four days time I shall be flying (ooooh!) up to Glasgow to join Trembling Bells and their guests, at Oran Mor as part of the Celtic Connections Festival. It feels a bit strange because I will be without my safety net of The Perfect Strangers, but it should be an interesting and entertaining couple of days

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Trembling Bells & Friends: The Last Ceilidh









I shall be a-chatting on the radio....

Auditioning For Auntie

Journalist and broadcaster Pete Paphides delves into the BBC auditions process for aspiring bands of the 1950s and 1960s such as The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Pink Floyd.

Throughout this era, any artist hoping to achieve wider national recognition would have to try and secure national radio exposure. To do this, they would have to meet the exacting standards of a small but powerful board of assessors within the BBC.

Producers and sound engineers of the time remember the sessions, and musicians such as Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator, Judy Dyble of Fairport Convention and Alvin Stardust recall their audition processes.



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