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Talk of the Tavern & back to the music...

21/10/2014

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First, a bit of news... next Monday, October 27th, I, along with GASP host Steven C. Davis, will be joining Travis Sivart on Talk of the Tavern, an American web radio show that goes out every Monday at 9pm EDT (approx 1am GMT, which we shall be on in England by then).

The topic under discussion is one that is scary, and not just due to the proximity of Halloween.  This week, Talk of the Tavern is raising awareness of breast cancer - but of course there will be the usual shenanigans going on too!  I hope some of you are able to listen to the episode 'Colder than a witch's tit - Breast cancer awareness month' (and maybe join the linked facebook event) - To listen to Talk Of The Tavern live broadcast, tune in to:
  • Wight Party Radio: http://wightpartyradio.com/radio-player/
  • Radio Riel Main: http://www.streamlicensing.com/play/player.php?sid=2303&stream_id=3923
  • Radio Riel Steampunk: http://64.34.173.110:8402/listen.pls
    Download/save and open the file (or open it with iTunes).
  • iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tunein-radio/id418987775?mt=8 AND search for "Wightpartyradio"
  • Android:http://tunein.com/radio/Wightparty-Radio-s182957/
  • OR
  • http://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Riel----Main-Stream-s102750/

    And a quick reminder - GASP - the Gothic Alternative Steampunk and Progressive radio show - continues at 8pm UK time on its new day of Thursday; listen in via tune-in at
  • http://tunein.com/radio/Blast-1386-s6837/


As well as playing in a band, I like to go and see other bands play.  I haven't been to many gigs this year - that I haven't been playing - mainly due to studying, so it was nice to have chance to catch a couple of artists last weekend.

I have definite preferences for music with metal or heavy rock leanings - though I'm not genre biased and like things from any style as long as they have sufficient power ( I should say here that I loathe and despise the power ballad and other such sentimental maudlin trash with a passion!).  Clannad are definitely not metal or heavy rock, but their great vocals, range of instrumentation and wonderful percussion certainly put them into the powerful bracket.

It took me a little while to get used to looking at them - for some reason you just don't expect to see older people playing guitars! - but their sound is still incredible.  I was particularly impressed with the Robin of Sherwood medley that they played (that series, which they scored, was where I first heard them waaay back when).

Saturday night was different  - very different.  For one thing, this gig was being played in a former church, the Church of St John the Evangelist, in Oxford.  'H Natural' - or Steve Hogarth, front man of progressive rock band Marillion - was performing a solo, intimate one-man-and-a-piano set.  Very different to Clannad, and to Marillion, even, though he performed some of their songs, but again, a powerful performance, interspersed with readings from his diaries, and general audience banter.

In a couple of weeks, I'll be indulging in a complete change of pace as I go to see Aurelio Voltaire, with steampunk friends Gladstone and also the Memepunks in London - rock 'n' roll, baby, rock 'n' roll...

PicturePhoto courtesy Craig 'Beasty' Beas
Just to finish with a couple of quick things since I failed to blog last week.  Thanks once again to Southcart Books for asking me to host the 'Books are my Bag' day on 11th October.  Southcart are definitely the most steampunk bookshop in the area, and well worth a visit for all your reading needs - fiction to fact.

And take a look at the events pages on this site for details of Novacon, coming up in November (hence the name), at which I'll be taking part in a few author panels and also performing with Crimson Clocks on Saturday evening!

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