Category: Music
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Pantoland
Let’s all sing along to ‘Pantoland’. This holiday season we were lucky enough to go to two pantomimes. Oh no you didn’t! Oh yes we did! First up was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Ambassadors New Victoria theatre in Woking. Starring Rob Rinder (him off the telly) and Lesley Joseph (Birds of…
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Just add Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a prolific composer of “light music”, mainly during the first half of the twentieth century. His most famous tunes are probably “The Dam Busters March” (written for the film “The Dam Busters“) and “By The Sleepy Lagoon“, which was used as the theme music for the “Desert Island Discs” programme on BBC…
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Big Martyn
Big Martyn is my best friend. He died two years ago today. I knew Martyn through the Compulink Information Exchange (cix.co.uk), which was one of the first social networks, before that was a phrase we really used. I leapt into the Modern Age in 1990 by joining CIX. I had a modem attached to my…