There’s something in the light, in the way it reflects on the water and casts shadows in the sand, but Middle Beach at Studland holds the same fascination for artist Ian Hargreaves as Monet’s garden at Giverny, or the Grand Canal in Venice, or twilight on the Bosphorus at Istanbul. ‘It doesn’t matter how many Read More…
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Gordon Haskell: The return of the native
What on earth is Gordon Haskell doing here? Nearly nine years after he beat a tactical retreat from his beloved Dorset to start a new life on the Greek island idyll of Skopelos, the Bournemouth-born singer-songwriter-musician is back under grey skies on frozen home soil. He obviously hasn’t come home for the weather, but he Read More…
The Vinyl Say 010: Orgone Box
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 occasional series chronicles some of those nuggets as they resurface from my own back pages. So, Read More…
The Vinyl Say 009: The Lemon Trees
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 occasional series chronicles some of those nuggets as they resurface from my own back pages. So, Read More…
Life in the 1980s
More from the estimable Gavin Underhill (I salute you, sir!) who kept and scanned this Echo Magazine feature about the nearly-dids of Bournemouth’s extraordinarily rich live music scene of the late 70s and early 80s. Zoom in to read if you can. If not, have a root around at Gavin’s website – great piece on Read More…
Coffin-Dodger Renegades
You might need to zoom in to see this Echo report from 2010, but anyone who remembers the buzz of Bournemouth’s live music scene in the early 1980s will find it’s worth the effort. Discover more at Coffin-Dodger Renegades.
At home he’s Dad; on stage he’s David
At home in Ferndown most of the time he’s just Dad to his two boys, but at least two or three nights a week – sometimes more – Laurence Bolwell dons make up, wigs and a series of outlandish costumes to become a starman; The Starman in fact, David Bowie. For 19 years Laurence has kept Read More…
The Last Shadow Puppets 13:07:2016
Windsor Hall, BIC It’s nearly ten years since Alex Turner last played the BIC with the Arctic Monkeys in their first flush of success on a (much too) hastily arranged arena tour. Like rabbits caught in headlights they looked terrified – it nearly broke them. But from the chaos they emerged stronger and their second coming Read More…
Neville Heath: Murder most foul
It was the case that gripped the nation: a nationwide manhunt for a vicious killer who had slaughtered a part-time actress in a London hotel. On Saturday 6 July 1946 the object of the manhunt, former RAF pilot Neville Heath, was arrested in Bournemouth, where he had been staying at the Tollard Royal Hotel on Read More…
To shell and back: Whatever happened to the Shell House?
A Bournemouth landmark for more than 50 years, it’s now almost 15 years since work began that culminated in the demolition of the famous Shell House at Southbourne to make way for a modern apartment block. Started in 1948 (in memory of his son Michael who died at the age of 14 from meningitis), the Read More…