Saturday,
December 26th, Boxing Day
Tzigane CD Pete Turner's
Christmas present
New web site links
Links to Bob Paterson's website, DJ, researcher and London gig promoter
Links to Dave Lang's Festival websites in Australia
Bickershaw 1972 Mike
Plumbley's festival diary
Wednesday, December
23rd, dark enough for Carol singers
Portland, Gurnard: The
pictures Pete T says goodbye to Keith Gore
Monday, December 21st,
dark, close to Christmas . . .
London: 20/12/98 Stacey
Earle/Kathleen Haskard at the Borderline
London: 30/11/98 South
Bank Hitchcock Robyn H gigging in London again
Southampton: 28/11/98 Setting
the woods on fire Okeh Wranglers
Sunday night, very
late, 29/11/98 just
Gig guide update
Updates to gig list
Folk gigs on the Wight, Wiretapper, Second Helpings and sessions at various
Island pubs supplied by Becky Haydock.
St. Cecelia's Day
Just like the Basement
Tapes
The Flatville Aces meet Arnie and Mo at the Talking Heads
Thursday night, very
dark . . . 19/11/98
Portsmouth: 3/11/98
Billy Bragg and the
Blokes
Happiness Stan celebrates his birthday at Billy Bragg's Guthrie tribute
Roger Chapman and the Shortlist gig at Ryde
Chappo
A Christmas cracker of a gig from one of the great rock vocalists
Isle of Wight Gig guide
Gig updates
New dates for Mojo Cane and more on Roger Chapman and the Shortlist
Bristol: 3/11/98
Hugh Moffatt with
pic
Susan Cane goes to the Hen & Chicken to see a great American songwriter.
Southampton: 27/7/98
Kelly Joe Phelps
Mike P finally wakes up and post his Kelly Joe Phelps review 3 months later
Tuesday night, as cold as a Snow Queen . . . 17/11/98
Isle of Wight: 15/11/98
Vikki Clayton Band/Jerry
Cahill/JC and Angelina
Mike P takes a day trip to the Isle of Wight for some 'Movers and Shakers'
Thursday night, kinda
late, 12/11/98
Winchester: 11/11/98
Baka Beyond
Mike P grooves to some African swing
Wednesday morning,
kinda frosty, 11/11/98
South Wight 2nd to 6th/11/98
Sandy Denny time of
year
Vic King takes Bees Make Honey literally, music every night
Saturday afternoon,
after Danny Baker, November 7th
Woolston: 6/11/98 Vera
Coomans and Philip Hoessen
Mike Plumbley gets out of his tree on a Tom Rapp cover
Monday after the sun
goes down, November 2nd
Updates to gig list
Roger Chapman (Family and Streetwalkers) at Ryde Town Hall, 17/12/98
Sunday after sun up,
November 1st
Island Halloween 1998 31/10/98
Halloween 1998
Benjamin Bowmaneer packs in three gigs on Halloween, Irish Dave, Gypsy Jazz
and Henry's Pocket Jazz band, aka Jack Tait
Updates to gig list
JC and Angelina gig at the Travellers Joy 21/11/98
Southampton, The Brook, 31/10/98
The Dylan Project
Mike P checks out the Dylan Project and then hot foots down to the Talking
Heads for Southampton's bluesman incorporated Bob Pearce.
Thursday night, Friday
morning, October 29/30th
Shedfield, Hampshire, 30/10/98
Neal Casal
Akin to meeting Neil Young in Tesco's, MP falls out of his tree, Rain, Wind
and Speed and two Townes Van Zandt songs.
The Portland, Gurnard, 25/10/98
Keith Gore says goodbye
again
Pete Turner reports on Isle of Wight Rock's favourite migrant songsmith
Updates to gig list
Mojo Cane shift their gig from Simeon Arms, Ryde to the Wishing Well, Nettlestone
on Saturday 31st October.
Monday night, cold and dark, October 26th
Deja View, Pulse The
'Pink Floyd' in Gosport
Sunday afternoon, vaguely sunny, October 18th
Iain Matthews Excerpts
from Swine Lake in Winchester
Monday night, October 12th, 1998
Eliza Carthy Band
A true hearted girl at Medina Theatre, 11/10/98
Wednesday afternoon, October 7th, 1998
Vic King takes a week off, sees three gigs and pens a CD review:
Music in the South
Wight JC and Paul Armfield, Last Orders, JC and Angelina
Mile Wide Smile Hubble
aka Rupert Brown's solo CD reviewed by Vic King
Holistic Reflections
Details of Holistic sampler CD featuring the Island's Universal Being, P
Nu Riff, Hubble, Fretless AZM and Delta T
Sunday afternoon, October 4th, 1998
Updates to gig list
to including a night in London with Gweido
Fiddlers, Bristol, 30/9/98 Dar
Williams Who invented roses?
Isle of Wight Rock connection? Dar Williams knows Adam Kirk, Joan Baez's
guitar player and Isle of Wight musician to boot.
Saturday afternoon, its raining September 26th
Updates to gig list
to include a string of dates from Mojo Cane featuring Rik Valvona
Monday night, September 21st, 1998
Updates to gig list
including Amnesty International Blues and Jazz gig, a Voice Workshop and
the Island Drum Circle
Finally added Dave Knowles excellent pics of Dale Watson at the Borderline
Review.
Dale Watson
Sunday night, September 20th, 1998
Bristol, HMV store Sinead
Lohan Words and pic by Susan Cane
Saturday night, September 19th, 1998
Hot Licks, Cold
Steel and Truckers Favourites The Okeh Wranglers a mess of country in
their soul.
Saturday night, September 12th, 1998
Cycle Cuba Melissa
Kilkelly plans to bike over Cuba in aid of Guide Dogs for the Blind. A gig
with Sporting Life to help her.
Wihtgar Productions
Island Theatre company is one year old and treading the boards with style.
Also added to our Contacts
List
Saturday morning, September 12th, 1998
Zinco - Martinez
Sketches of Spain from the Paul Athey, Phil Oswald guitar duo.
More CD/Tape
reviews
Wednesday night, September 2nd, 1998
Rich Siil Two poems
from the poet from Chicago
More stuff on Indian
Ink
Late on Bank Holiday Monday
Skiver reviews Freefall/War
of the Worlds/Summer in the Square
Late Sunday night, August 30th, 1998
Adam Kirk on tour
with Joan Baez The Carnegie Hall story.
Eliza Carthy and band
The rising star of English folk with her band plus local band The Jones
in support.
Summer in the Square
98 The green pyjamas and cuban heels review
Level 42 fans meet
Mark King
Sunday, 23rd August, 1998
A link to Level
42 website
For all things Level 42 check out Carl Mueller's site.
Irish Mist in the
porridge Pt 1 Galway Festival '98 by Vic King
Irish Mist
in the porridge Pt 2 Galway Festival '98 by Vic King
Irish Mist
in the porridge Pt 3 Galway to Spiddal by Vic King
Irish Mist
in the porridge Pt 4 Galway to Doolin and back by Vic King
Irish Mist
in the porridge Pt 5 Through the Connemara boglands and back to
Galway by Vic King
Irish Mist
in the porridge Pt 6 Galway to Dublin with Vic King
Cambridge Folk
Festival '98 by Pete Turner
The Sidmouth Capers
'98 by Mike Plumbley
Hayling Island Eric
Bibb by the Wessex Wanderer
Talking Heads, Southampton Candle
Club by Mike Plumbley
Wednesday, 12th August, 1998
Nick Potts joins Tribal
Trance Cornwall, Edinburgh then off to Australia
Sunday, 8th August, 1998
Vikki Clayton
brings top flight folk rock to the Medina Theatre again with Jerry Cahill
as support.
Saturday, 8th August, 1998
Gold from California
An interview with Alice Stuart. Time to rewrite the 'Women in Rock' books
because Alice Stuart is back.
Wednesday 5th August, 1998
Better than TV
Susan Cane reviews Kristina Olsen and Peter Grayling in Bristol.
Pete Turner's
been under canvas at Cambridge, Mike Plumbley has been folking it up at
Sidmouth and Vic King's been errm directing the Traffic from his cottage
in Niton. When they get their collective heads together there's a pile
of new stuff coming.
Saturday, July 25th, 1998
Coming as soon as they get the mud off their boots is the Pete Turner/Vic
King epic on Irish music, the craic and tales from Galway, Dublin where
Vic finds a jazz pianist who mixes traditional jigs with blues and snatches
of John Coltrane.
Glastonbury
part 5 PT lends an ear to Passa K, Baka Beyond and Bob Dylan
Wednesday, July 15th, 1998
Glastonbury
part 4 PT catches up with Mr. Platania and Eliza Carthy but no
Beth Orton . . .
Crab or
Taverners? A tale of contrasts. Skiver sums up
Sunday, July 12th, 1998
1970 to 1998
In which PT goes to the Cornershop, meets Mark Ellen and digs Nick
Lowe's Mood atGlastonbury and errm still doesn't find Beth Orton.
Saturday, July 11th, 1998
Shawn Phillips
interviewed about Afton, his music now and firefighting in Austin, Texas
Friday, July 10th, 1998
Shawn Phillips
Texan at 1970 Afton Festival returns to London after 20 years
BMW, July 18th at
Calverts Gig listed updated
Monday, July 6th, 1998
The Jones' at
Booker Ts by Skiver
Sunday, July 5th, 1998
1970 to 1998 Part
two of Pete T's search for peace, love and understanding at Glastonbury
and errm Beth Orton.
"Hey baby it's the Fourth of July"
1970 to 1998
Pete Turner goes off in search of space at Glastonbury and errm
Beth Orton.
Monday, June 22nd, 1998
Latest gig list
The line up for Summer in the Square, Vicki Clayton Band here in November
with Jerry Cahill as support and a gig by the Blue Horses in Southampton
Kate McKenzie
Bluegrass can clear a pub faster than a Val Doonican karokee night. Not
for the hip with shades and pigtails, line dancing maybe but never bluegrass
. . .
Sunday, June 1st, 1998
Latest gig list
Nothing ever happens on the Isle of Wight, part 94
A profile of
Florence Rogers
Florence produced The Last Great Festival radio documentary for Isle of
Wight radio with Barnaby Kirk and Paul Seed, worked for the influential
91X in California and now is on the airwaves in Kansas
Les Payne profile
'Fully Qualified Survivor' Les Payne who's been there, done it and got
the t-shirt.
Stomping in the Thames
Valley
Vic King reports on Les Payne and Void in Buckinghamshire
Void in Bucks
Void make the Bucks Free Press
Julie Felix at Wootton
Julie Felix recalls her Wootton performance and provides an insight into
her spirituality.
Julie Felix at the
Nonesuch Folk Club
A review of Julie Felix's performance at the Nonesuch Folk Club, Bishop's
Waltham
Miles Davis at Afton
Quotes and recollections of Miles at Afton
Tiny Tim at Afton
Cas Caswell recalls watching the spondoolies being counted before he accompanied
Tiny Tim onstage at the Afton Festival. The late Tiny Tim's ukelele wouldn't
'tune' without the dosh.
Shooting the breeze
Pete Turner reports from the Portland
Thundering
Nifty picture of Kimberley Rew and Robyn Hitchcock at the 12 Bar
Two crabs
A painting by Angelina Grimshaw added to the Indian Ink menu
From Blake to
Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Glass and others perform in a tribute to
the late Allen Ginsberg
Keep those lamps
. . .
Skyport Ade Tucker's pictures of JC and Angelina in Basingstoke keep those
kerosene lamps trimmed and burning.
Buck Owens boogie
A Clearspot report from the Southover Acoustic Music Festival in Brighton.
Dale Watson
Back from Texas Brian and Jan Munro head for a night of cool steel and
trucker's favourites at the Borderline, London
Let It Roll
Eric Taylor cocks Hemmingway's shotgun and Guy Clark lets it roll in Brentford
Two parts religion,
three parts sin
Pictures added. Jimmy LaFave out of Austin, Texas and Jim Lauderdale blow
out their speakers at the Borderline, London
Wednesday, May 6th,
1998
Updated gigs list
Garlic Festival, piles of Void dates, Summer in the Square, Joel Turner's
18th
Bank Holiday Monday,
May 4th, 1998
Aidan Dun and David Gascoyne
at the Quay
Two great poets at the Quay Arts Centre on Friday May 15th
What we did on our
Bank Holiday
Isle of Wight Rock keeps track of some Island musicians
April 23rd, 1998
Nothing ever happens
on the Isle of Wight
Part 93. Paul Armfield updates us on Isle of Wight music.
Island Sessions
97 Gig
A report from St. George's Park on the Void, Seen, Hightown Crow, Shrinkwrap,
Abby Moon gig
Hope at Anchor
Rich Wilkinson swaps the hyrdrofoil rope and gets back behind a set of drums.
New gigs
Amen Boogie and Tzigani gigs announced
Myth becomes legend
- Lucy Lightfoot
Mark Wightman unveils the story behind the story of The Legend of Lucy Lightfoot
April 20th, 1998
Two parts religion,
three parts sin
Jimmy LaFave and his Night Tribe band from Austin, Texas and Jim Lauderdale
from Nashville rip it up at The Borderline, London
See Clearspot
gig reviews
April 11th, 1998
"All I did last Easter was paint some eggs . . ." Grace Slick
A
profile of Max Brennan
Vic King and Pete Turner interview Holistic recording artist Max Brennan
who also records as Fretless AZM and with Rupert Brown as Universal Being
Maxwell
House II
Prince Rupert reviews Max Brennan's Maxwell House II album
Armchair
Traveller
Prince Rupert reviews guitarist Jerry Cahill's first CD release.
Cinderella
Search
John Peel and a film crew descend on the Anchor, Cowes to film for Channel
4. Vic King was there to see the Jones', Void and Wargasm do the business.
More
gigs
Latest gigs
March 14th, 1998
From the heart
An interview with Adam Kirk before he joins Joan Baez's band for her 1998
American tour.