A short story I saw him again today. That’s what reminded me. It was a Tuesday, or maybe a Thursday, must be nearly 70 years ago now. A long time. I was thinking how much I missed our little reunions, the way we could get together and feel the nameless years just fall away. Read More…
Tag: Nick Churchill
And this is me…
Nick Churchill has been sticking words together professionally for more than 25 years. Currently he is a busy journalist and has undertaken a wealth of celebrity interviews and human interest features to writing speeches, generating web and media content and production scripts. His first book, Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Beatles & Bournemouth – was met with great and Read More…
Remembering Neal Butterworth
I first met Neal Butterworth on the day I became a newspaper journalist and it has been my privilege to work with him almost constantly ever since. It was 1989 and the Dorset Advertiser Series had offered me a week’s trial to see if the over-written streams of consciousness I’d been passing off as record Read More…
Remembering Kevin Nash
Working closely with someone, you get to know something about what makes a man tick. I had the absolute privilege of occupying the features desk next to Kev for more than ten years at the Echo. He was my friend. He was also a great writer. His eloquence and economy with the written word were Read More…
Remembering Sheila Casey
The singer died in the early hours of December 16 after a long and brave battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband Howie. As the McKinley Sisters, Sheila and her sister Jeanette made a string of charming white bread pop singles in the early to mid-1960s, performing Sweet and Tender Romance on Ready Read More…
Purbeck’s champion trees
The Isle of Purbeck is home to the UK’s largest known black poplar and white willow trees. The management of these trees is still in its infancy, but we need to be identifying the veteran trees of today. It is sometimes said that a man of taste will find beauty in a tree that others condemn Read More…
They loved it, yeah, yeah, yeah
Of all the places that ‘had their moments’ according to the lyric of John Lennon’s elegiac song In My Life, 46 years since its release, Bournemouth fits the sentiment as well as any that figure in the history of The Beatles. Still revered as one of the greatest – and most commercially successful – groups Read More…
Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey, owner of one of the greatest voices in rock history, played the O2 Academy Bournemouth on 19 March 2011 ahead of a triumphant re-imagining of The Who’s classic rock opera Tommy at the Royal Albert Hall five days later. He brought with him the band of crack American session musicians he toured the States with Read More…
Jason Donovan 2010
It’s nearly a quarter of a century since Britain first clapped eyes on Jason Donovan, as the puppy dog-enthusiastic Scott Robinson in TV soap Neighbours. Within three years he was a major pop star, with Kylie Minogue, at that time his girlfriend both on and off screen. They were the undisputed king and queen of Read More…
Paul Weller
He’s the changing man… Things come and go in our lives, others stick around, keeping us company on rocky roads and high trails. The fleeting charms of some new source of admiration may be sweet, but nothing rewards quite like the tale that unravels over time. And so it is with me and Paul Weller. Read More…