The Sherling Studio, Lighthouse, Poole There’s something about an intimate venue and a sell-out audience, particularly when it’s for an act that would usually pack a place twice its size or more. No matter that a sizeable majority of the house are seasoned jazzers that have seen it all before – at least once – Read More…
Year: 2019
The Vinyl Say 025: St Germain
In every collection there are records that get played all the time, many of them for years, decades even. Then there are those that, while no less treasured, somehow fall by the wayside to lie in wait, ripe for rediscovery. This series chronicles some of those nuggets as they resurface from my own back pages. So, put Read More…
The Vinyl Say 024: Jr Walker & the All Stars
Jr Walker & the All Stars – Gotta Hold On To This Feeling b/w Clinging to the Thought That She’s Coming Back (Soul, 1969) In every collection there are records that get played all the time, many of them for years, decades even. Then there are those that, while no less treasured, somehow fall by Read More…
Conquer loneliness to fight scams
‘Until we conquer loneliness we will never stop the financial scamming of vulnerable older people by criminals.’ That’s the stark message from the country’s leading expert on scamming Professor Keith Brown, Director of the National Centre for Professional Practice (NCPP) at Bournemouth University. And as Dorset Community Foundation’s ‘Hidden Dorset II’ report reveals one in Read More…
Forged in Dorset
Little has changed about the blacksmith’s work since the second millennium BCE when ancient Hittites first discovered that iron ore could be forged and tempered to make tools. ‘That’s what I love about this,’ says two-times British champion blacksmith Simon Grant-Jones over a flagon of tea in the kitchen of his Sutton Poyntz home. ‘When Read More…
Building for tomorrow
‘I’m very fortunate,’ says Phlip Proctor, ‘to be able to work in style and comfort with the hope of making people’s lives better – I have a wonderful job.’ The forty years of hard work that have gone into creating that good fortune are proof positive that Shaftesbury-based architect Philip Proctor means what he says Read More…