Sat 30 December - 2023 New Releases Roundup - New Music

 New music releases from 2023 including Kelsey Michael, Hot Wax, Ger Eaton, Borough Council, Montague Armstrong, Nick Haeffner, Nick Carlisle, David Lance Callahan and many from the Dimple Discs stable.

Sat 16 December - James Ensor in Ostend

James Ensor, the Belgian painter beloved by the counter-culture for his psychedelic use of mask and satire begins a posthumous retrospective for 2024 with three shows in Flanders and Brussels. A visit to the first at the Mu.Zee in Oostende is also a visit to his hometown and an opportunity to see Flemish still life painting from 1830 to 1930. Also Marvin Gaye in the seaside port where he wrote 'Sexual Healing'. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com

Sat 9 December - Benjamin Zephaniah, Kirsty MacColl and Carlos Gardel

 The work of three genius writers no longer with us dominates this show, Benjamin Zephaniah who died this week and who was such a huge life force of the Newham Arts Community in the late 1980s and 1990s when Jude worked at the Tom Allen Arts Centre, Kirsty MacColl the singer-songwriter and Carlos Gardel the most acclaimed writer of tango song. 

Sat 2 Dec - Pioneer Radio Stations

Amateur pioneer stations in the UK (Great Britain) in the early 1920s. Looking at some of those early broadcasters who set up radio stations in their own homes and venues, selected ones of which later became the network of the British Broadcasting Company. Plus music from Joni Mitchell, Sons of the Pioneers and remembering Shane McGowan's pub in Islington, Filthy McNasty's. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com