Even Butterflies Make A Sound
Thankfully, touch wood, I have avoided the worst the pandemic has had to offer. Obviously, the forced estrangement takes its toll; my job being made redundant was a blow. But it’s the lost time that hurts. My children’s youth being insidiously drained from them. Identikit days flying by. No real break in the routine to […]
So in just a few fateful minutes, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. What a sick joke it is. Do Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg et al. have the average UK citizen’s best interests at heart? Give me a break. European me,It’s good to be someone. Six.By Seven Some time after the referendum […]
When I was a wee nipper, I would suffer from terrible nausea on almost any journey over ten minutes long. It wasn’t until my parents put me in the front seat and let me control the radio, that the vomiting would abate, so my love of music was borne of car sickness. I found the […]
Frozen Pizza. Happy Metal. I’m Out Of Alcohol, You’re Out Of Your Mind. Get Away from Me with Your Filthy Covid. Sounds like a standard Saturday night in your typical student accommodation. But no, these are the song titles from the debut self-produced EP by Denmark artist LINN. Except the last one on the tracklist. […]
Watch David Gooday, of Nitzer Ebb, perform a lockdown livestream at Chelmsford’s Hot Box.
On a truly rank autumn day, your intrepid reporter braved the elements to check out a unique art installation in Chelmsford town centre. As one who normally avoids shopping centres at all costs, especially during a pandemic, the oasis provided by the Resonance team was remarkable. A truly welcome retreat. It demonstrated what people can […]
As our interview nears its end and Sarah Perry tries to explain her continued fascination with her home county, she deploys a phrase often meant to be demeaning or dismissive, though she certainly doesn’t mean it that way. “You can take the girl out of Essex, but you can’t take the Essex out of the […]
“In life – identical; in death – inseparable.” The words Chris yearned for Taylor to say for nearly as long as they had known each other. Since that first encounter at the Bollocks to Vaginas meeting. Catching sight of each other across the crowded room … they just KNEW. There and then. They would be […]
Accessible art is one of Steve Mortimer’s major passions. However, if it isn’t underpinned by a determined commitment to ecological matters, he argues, art becomes meaningless posturing. Eco. Not ego. You can tell he isn’t interested in creating art for art’s sake and he doesn’t care for the mythology that surrounds the whole scene. “I […]
From Bowery loft room home rehearsals to being ‘bigger than Rod Stewart in New Zealand’ and a career-high gig in Rome in 1980, on the ‘Remain in Light’ tour. Chris Frantz’s life story reads like many budding musician’s dream come true: form a band, convince the person you have just fallen emphatically in love with […]