Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene. Seems apathy has reared its ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.
Roger Hodgson’s Breakfast in America and Montreal. Roger Hodgson and his Breakfast in America live in Montreal, Canada.
Mediterranean diet and diabetes. Do you follow the Mediterranean diet or do you know anyone who’s diagnosed with type 2 diabetes? And have you read this article in the Reader’s Digest by Janis Graham?
Mediterranean eating. Eating plans and the Mediterranean plan for the Guardian Eat Right by the Observer. Yoghurt with fruit and nuts, salmon with roast vegetables, pasta salad and fruit and crackers and hummus…
Madagascar andAfrica. The website of Madagascar National Tourism Board. South Africa for 15 nights with the supplier Riviera Travel for 1499 pounds and the Nile for seven nights from 649 pounds with another supplier, Discover Egypt.
Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene. Seems apathy has reared its ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.
22.11.09 – Thailand. Have you ever travelled to Thailand and Bangkok? Would you like to travel there? Please see below as well.
Mediterranean countries for “The Observer” and more
Cancun, Mexico, Central America and Asia. Have you ever been to Cancun in Mexico or Thailand? And maybe from Sweden? Which are the flights? And where have you been?
Sitges. September in Spain from the UK? In Sitges? Do you know salsa music? Or maybe do you like to eat in tapas restaurants?
Again Italy. Do you like whales or dolphins in the Ligurian Sea or maybe Basilicata with southern Apennines and “bread from bakeries in Matera, wine from Aglianico and cheese from the mountains”? And do you like this list by The Observer?
An island.Sardinia‘s Supramonte Mountains and plateau, Sorgente Su Gologone and the Lanaittu Valley or a Nuraghic village. Any help needed by the Association for Tourist Services, Culture and Environment in Orgosolo or the Agrituristica Guthiddai? Would you like to taste boiled sheep, roasted pork, bread and salami or cheese, local wine and olive oil?
Going on with food, would you feel like eating almonds, carob, olive, pistachio and walnut trees? In Can Marti – Ibiza, Spain, with Swiss owners… Furthermore there is “homemade bread with local jam and honey”…
Spain and France. And what about Cortes de la Frontera in Spain and a lot of place in France like Béziers, the Languedoc, the Canal du Midi and Carcassonne? Or the vineyards of Minervois, Ventenac and the Cathar castle at Lastours? A wind farm there…
Burgundy and gay naturism. A gay naturist retreat in Burgundy by Citronniers with a price of 80 euros per night per person with a 3-course evening meal, full English breakfast, lunch and all drinks included.
Marche. And would you like mountains’ cycling holidays in Alpujarras, Spain, as the second page of the article offers? Or an agriturismo in Le Marche, Italy? Here more information…
Cycling and eating. Do you know the village of Bérchules and the Alpujarras? And the Sierra Nevada above Granada and the Mulhacén in Spain? Do you like mountains’ cycling and picnicking? You should pay 630 euros a week.
Farming. A country house and organically run farm in Le Marche, Italy… What? A five-course evening meal?! Incredible… And “heating is solar-powered and there’s a wood-fired stove fuelled by coppicing from the farm woods”. Plus truffle-hunting not very far from Rimini, Urbino and Ancona. Doubles from €110 including breakfast.
Ssese’s Islands. Do you know where the tropical Ssese’s Islands are? If you would like to know it, please see this reportage by Richard Eilers for The Observer… Sands, forest walks, a lake, fried tilapia, above all the rapids and Bob Marley… And, moreover, as for names, Kampala, the MS Kalangala from Entebbe to Bugala, Lutoboka, Kibale Forest national park and the Bassese and, as for animals, gorillas and chimpanzees…
The Nile. And do you know what mzungu means, who Idi Amin is and where Jinja and the Bujagali Falls are? Clues for my question are the Nile and the lakes Nyinambuga and Victoria… Last, but not least, have you ever been to the Ssese Islands Beach Hotel, the Haven, the Ndali Lodge and to the Gately on Nile? Have you ever met South Africans or Americans?
Aircraft. You can fly to Entebbe from Brussels with Brussels Airlines on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10.40 to 19.35; from Amsterdam and from London Heathrow to Entebbe with KLM. Among the other national parks in Uganda there would be the Bwindi Impenetrable national park in the south-west, Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth national parks and “the Foreign Office advises against travel to the Karamoja region, in the north-east”.
Southern Italy. What follows is not an ad and I know my readers should be very intelligent. So I add this link to a project for 122 two and three bed villas and townhouses near Sciacca, Sicily, Italy.
Northern and Central Italy. Do you like Castel Fidardo, near Ancona? And Vicobarone Ziano Piacentino, near Piacenza in Emilia Romagna?
I wonder: any news from you about Michael Jackson’s Bad album? I like very much the song Man In The Mirror and a bit Dirty Diana and I Just Can’t Stop Loving You.
Maybe you prefer some other song from this album among the other ones: Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Speed Demon, Liberian Girl, Just Good Friends, Another Part Of Me, Smooth Criminal and Leave Me Alone.
Below something else – that is notably different – about music. And here a selection of videos about Michael Jackson and Cirque du Soleil.
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Polar Bear and Paul Morley. Paul Morley’s Showing Off for the Observer, modern jazz and Polar Bear, John Surman and Jerry Dammers.
Music. A playlist of mine with songs by Lily Allen and Amy Macdonald (please see also below or take a look at my categories).
MJ.The Observer, the Guardian and the official exhibition at the O2 in London until 28th February. With an interview to Miko Castaneda Brando, son of Marlon Brando.
Gilberto Gil and The Observer. Gilberto Gil almost naked in a photo by the British newspaper The Observer about “A decade of music in pictures”.
Another photo about The Darkness and a video album of mine about Gilberto Gil.
Cohen. The video of Leonard Cohen’s In My Secret Life. Please see also below and you can vote Cohen, Gilberto Gil and Huey Lewis & The News or other singers at the end of this text. Last, but not least Cohen and Twitter in English and… is he the master of depressing songs? Ian Bullock from Norwich, UK.
Cohen and Hydra. Where is Hydra? In Greece? And is this the house of Cohen there (a photo)?
District of Columbia and Canadian maples. Washington and tourism. Please see also below for the capital of the USA. You might also be interested at the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival in Canada.
CherylCole. ITV’s music show X Factor, Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole. Is she your best singer? Please see below, for TV listings too. TV guide for Xtra Factor on ITV2 till Thursday, December 31.
Nick Jonas.Photo in front of the United States Capitol in Washington.
25.11.09 – Beyoncé and Thanksgiving. For everybody in the States who likes Beyoncé. She will be on tv on abc tomorrow on Thanksgiving night, Thursday November 26, at 9 pm. Just a question for you. Where and how is the Encore Theater in Wynn, Las Vegas? And do you like I Am Yours?
01.11.09 – Lady Gaga and…TV channel listings in the UK… EMAs Contenders on MTV on Wednesday, November 4, at 4 pm… The contenders for the category Best Song are ‘Halo’ by Beyoncé, ‘I Gotta Feeling’ by Black Eyed Peas, ‘When Loves Takes Over’ by David Guetta and Kelly Rowland, ‘Use Somebody’ by Kings of Leon and ‘Pokerface’ by Lady Gaga.
Jon Bon Jovi. There are also The Official UK Top 10 and Top 40 on VH1 respectively at 6 and 7 pm, The Official UK Top 20 at 5 pm on MTV Hits, The Official Top 10 Rock Chart at 5 pm on MTV Two, Never Mind the Classics and Bon Jovi Are Back! respectively at 5 and 7 pm on VH1 Classics.
04.11.09 – Beyoncé and Glasgow. Congrats to Beyoncé for her two Mobo Awards in Glasgow last September.
02.09.09Mudvayne will be on Wednesday, September the 2nd, in Mesa, Arizona, at the Mesa Amphitheatre.
02.04.09– Cohen. Great… The famous songwriter Leonard Cohen will be in Austin, Texas, on April 2nd, at the Michael and Susan Dell Hall at Long Centre. His next tour dates wil be on April 19 in Vancouver at the GM Place and on April 21 in Victoria at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.
Washington and Calgary. Cohen will also sing in Washington at the WaMu Theatre on the 22nd and then he will return to Canada where he will be to the Rexall Place of Edmonton on the 25th and in Calgary on the 26th at the Jack Singer Concert Hall. The last dates of April will be in Saskatoon at the Credit Union Centre and in Winnipeg at the MTS Centre respectively on April 28 and 30.
Have a nice time if you will be there and please feel free to ask if you would like to know about other dates. Furthermore, here there are other tour dates of Huey Lewis and The News, the EMF and the Kings of Leon.
Lewis and the group. New tour dates for Huey Lewis & The News from this April to September 2009. The group will be on April, 4 in the USA at Pullman, in the State of Washington. They will play at the “Beasley Performing Arts” at the Washington State University and more dates will follow from June 10. For other dates please go on with reading my blog in the next months or please feel free to contact me if I forget to update this text.
– Huey Lewis & The News, I Want A New Drug
The EMF and Cromwell. From Huey Lewis and The News to the EMF, the British band famous for the hit “Unbelievable”. They will play at a festival – the Secret Garden Party – in Huntingdon on Sunday, 26 July. Maybe you just know it, but I felt surprised to know that Huntingdon is a British town in Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, and it is the birth place of Oliver Cromwell, the famous historical figure and politician of the 17th century.
The Kings of Leon and the EMF. But let’s turn to the music again and before Lewis and the News and the EMF, there is another group on the stage, the Kings of Leon, who will be tomorrow in Holland – Amsterdam – at the MHM venue and on 23 and 26 in Germany, respectively in Berlin and Cologne (at the Columbiahalle and The Palladium). In March they will be in Australia and New Zealand and in the next months in Canada, the USA, the UK, Ireland and Spain.
In April they will be at the Agganis Arena of Boston for two days on 18 and 19 and at the Air Canada Centre of Toronto, in Canada, on 21. Then they will return to the States at the Palumbo of Pittsburgh one day later and at the Patriot Center of Fairfax three days later. In the last four dates of the month the tour will reach the Spectrum of Philadelphia, the Constant Convocation Centre of Norfolk, the Koka Booth Amphitheatre of Raleigh and the Bojangles’ Coliseum of Charlotte respectively on April 25, 27, 28 and 30.
Flowers and music. “Flowers & Football Tops” by the Glasvegas
Dave Grohl and…Foo Fighters studio plans. Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music and the Australian solo artist Sarah Blasko. Laureen Laverne is on air weekdays from 10 am to 1 pm on Freeview and Freesat 707, DAB digital radio and online. Have an excellent lunch with her or them or follow her on Twitter…
– Stephen ‘Scissor Hands’ Merchant
Homosexuals and lunch.Asian Network Reports with Rozina Sini weekdays from 12:30 to 1 pm and from 6 to 6:30 pm. Have an excellent Asian lunch – or with news from an Asian point of view – with her….
Pink. She performs I Don’t Believe You from her CD Funhouse at The Oprah Winfrey Show (video).
Bruce Cockburn and Canada. Bruce Cockburn’s guitar lesson for CBC Radio 2, a Canadian radio station. He plays country music and If I Had A Rocket Launcher.
It’s the UK’s capital… Hammams in “Paul’s Travel Blog” and World Travel Market in London. Your favourite travel destination? Please see at the end of this text.
And have you seen Andrew Earnes’ list of the world’s top five train journeys for The Observer? There is a photo of the Bernina Express in Switzerland and first and second connections are the Trans-Siberian Express and the Caledonian Sleeper (in the UK, from London Euston). The shown links lead to the websites of Poezda, GW Travel, Great Rail Journeys and ScotRail, but I would ask you whether you travel by train and how much you do it.
– Queen Elizabeth II travelling from London King’s Cross – an article by Helen Pidd and photos for The Guardian. I have known fom this article the Queen travelled to King’s Lynn and Sandringham and in the past to Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire and Milton Keynes.
Morrisey, music and a Sunday paper. Morrissey and The Observer. Would you like to vote him below?
Novels, Pinocchio and literature. Pinocchio will also be broadcasted on tv in some English-speaking country as well as in Italy. Or maybe it has already been broadcasted… And where?
Robinson Crusoe and Alice in Wonderland. I found that the producer is Power, a British corporation that has also produced Alice, Alice in Wonderland, Crusoe and A Bear Named Winnie. Flood on ITV1 last year and London… Like the Maldives – ehm, unprobably, we hope – in some years…
Pink, Dave Grohl, Bon Jovi and… What’s on in UK‘s television on Monday, November 1st? You may see Discovery Travel & Living with Virgin Media and BT Vision…If you like pop music, you may see – with Virgin Media – Pink: Greatest Hits on VH1 at 9 pm, followed by Pink: Essential an hour later. There are also Pink: 10 Biggest Hits on MTV Hits at 8 pm and the Official UK Top 40 an hour later, Dave Grohl – The Official All Time Top 40 at 8 pm on MTV Two, The Seventies at Seven at 7 pm on VH1 Classic and, after it, The Eighties at Eight one hour later, All Time Top 10 Videos two hour later and Bon Jovi: Unplugged three hours later.
Duran Duran. In the USA there is Duran Duran Live at Wembley Arena on VH1 Classic at 4 pm (EST).
Another playlist of mine with the shore, remembering, coal and diamonds.
14.01.10 Fiona Talkington is presenting the programme Late Junction on BBC Radio 3 till 1 am of Friday, January 15. On Monday, January 18, instead, Jez Nelson will present a session by saxophonist Mark Lockheart and his ‘In Deep’ quintet. Tags or categories are available in this blog about Jez Nelson, Twitter or something else and… please vote too.
04.12.09 Jazz on 3 by BBC Radio 3 will broadcast a concert by the Helge Lien trio on Monday, December 7, at 11.15pm. The musicians played at the PizzaExpress Jazz Club for the London Jazz Festival.
– London’s Oxford Circus, You Tube and The Guardian
– Twitter, the presenter Jezz Nelson and the programme Jazz on 3. You may vote this trio below.
Soho, Cheltenham and tourism. Visit London and Soho. Cheltenham Music and Jazz Festivals and tourism. Would you choose Soho, London or Cheltenham below for a survey of mine?
13.11.09 – Sonny Rollins. Will you be at the London Jazz Festival? And will you be at the opening night at the Barbican on Friday 13 November? There should be the well-known Sonny Rollins and also Kurt Elling, Natalie Merchant and Sheila Jordan, which I do not know and which you may vote for my blog below. You could add some interpretations of them to the list…
John Scofield. Also today, Friday 13 November, John Scofield at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and, at 7.45 and 9.30pm, Astillero – who are they? – at the Purcell Room. They should be a Buenos Aires’ new tango group.
Last, but not least, a question. I read a text about this festival and I wondered what “tickets are flying out the door” means. I looked up this expression in my dictionary, but no answer.
Elling – November 14. Kurt Elling will be this evening, Saturday November 14, at the PizzaExpress Jazz Club, at 10.30pm with Dedicated To You. The Music of Coltrane and Hartman. I know who John Coltrane is, but Hartman?!
Puente. Dear Londoners or citizens who live near London, would you like to win two pairs of free tickets for a concert by the jazzist Omar Puente? He will play on Tuesday 17 November at Jazz Cafe in Camden and you should answer this question:
What is the name of Omar Puente’s debut solo album,
being launched at Jazz Cafe during the Jazz Festival?
This is the e-mail to send your answer and full contact details to – and only by 10 am on Monday 9 November.
10.09.09 – Bill Frisell. I do not know a lot about Bill Frisell, but has he known Eyvind Kang and Rudy Royston for many years, are they good friends and do they trust each other? They will be on September 10th at the Infinity Hall in Norfolk, Connecticut… And on Saturday, September 12, the Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project with Greg Leisz, Eyvind Kang and Viktor Kraus will be in Urbana. At the University of Illinois at the Krannert Center for the W2W Guitar Festival.
08.08.09 Bill Frisell Trio, Tony Scherr and Kenny Wollesen will be on Saturday August 8 at the Hoxeyville Music Festival in Hoxeyville, Milwaukee. At 5.30 pm…
02.08.09 – Frisell, jazz and… Will you be in Atlanta on August 2 at 6:30 pm at the concert of Bill Frisell? He will play at the “National Black Arts Festival” with films that should be curated by the so-called Pan African Film Festival… There should also be a discussion with Grammy-nominated trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn.
Texas and… I would also ask you what do you think of the music couple Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz… How were their concerts? They should have taken place at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas; at the Canal Street Tavern in Dayton, Ohio; at The 5 Spot in Atlanta, GA; at the Square Room Knoxville, Tennessee; at the Grey Eagle Music Hall in Asheville and at the Student Union Great Hall of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, both in North Carolina…
12.06.09 Do you know the vocal ensemble “Stile antico”? They will be on tour in the USA from Friday June, 12. This time their first concert in America will be in Boston at the Emmanuel Church (15 Newbury St) for the Boston Early Music Festival. Tickets will cost from 22 to 56 dollars, if you would like to go, and… will I write about other concerts of this group?
14.06.09 Oh, yes… On Sunday, June 14, they will be at Christ the King Church in Old Lyme for the Connecticut Early Music Festival at 6 pm. The next programmed concert will then find place on June 26 at 8 pm…
The Observer. Surely they were reviewed by The Observer, one of the most known British Sunday papers, and I heard their interpretation of “Ego Flos Campi” by Clemens non Papa and I was quite impressed… Their third album is Song of Songs, published by Harmonia mundi, and their other CDs are Heavenly Harmonies and Music for Compline. And…
Trovesi. It almost starts with Claudio Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” – the composition by the famous musician lived between the 16th and 17th centuries – with the “Toccata”, and then goes on later with “Ah, fors’è lui che l’anima” and “È Piquillo, un bel gagliardo”, extracted from Verdi’s “La traviata”.
Music flower. “Profumo di Violetta” by the very famous Italianjazzist Gianluigi Trovesi focuses on the Italian opera and takes its name first of all from the important protagonist of “La traviata”, but also – without a capital letter – from the flower, the violet (in fact it may be very like to the meaning “Scent of violet”). The work also includes “Il cavallo scalpita” from Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana”, “Stizzoso, mio stizzoso” from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s “La serva padrona”, “Largo al factotum” from Gioacchino Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia” and an excerpt inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca”. Gianluigi Trovesi plays this album with a large North-Italian wind orchestra – about 60 musicians of the “Filarmonica Mousiké” – that may be named a “banda” in his mother tongue and includes percussion players.
– Najee and Lomon Andrews (“Fallin’ in love with you”)
– Cannonball Adderley (“Mercy Mercy Mercy”) – I hope the contents of the linked blog are correct…
Wynton Marsalis – “The Razor Rim” from his album “He and She”
12.07.09– Wynton Marsalis. On Sunday July 12 Wynton Marsalis will play in Rotterdam at the “Northsea Jazz Festival” in the Amazon Hall at 6:45 and 8:45 pm. From 8:30 pm the Mc Coy Tiner Trio will play with Bill Frisell, Gary Bartz and John Scofield. Mariza will sing at 10:15 pm – a quarter before Steve Winwood and later than the John Zorn Cobra – with Chuco Valdéz and Tito Paris and John Patitucci will be with Roy Haynes and David Kikoski.
On the program there are also Jamie Cullum at 6 ‘o clock in the evening and Seal at 7:30 pm or the John Scofield Piety Street Band at 5:45 pm and Hiromi and Akiko Yano at 10 pm. Time also for Uri Caine at 7.15 pm and Bill Frisell at 9:30 pm.
– Bud Shank, passed this April 2, 2009, and the obituaries for him in the New York Times (maybe three dogs named Andante, Allegro and Rubato, and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute) and the Guardian (camouflaged emotions, devoiusness of method, the underpinning of a “superb” technique on saxophone and flute, and honing a style).
– John Scofield will play in Norway at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival on Thursday July 2.
Calogero Mira 