Kris Kros Lebanon – Aspin Commercial Tower, 106 Sheikh Zayed Rd – Dubai If ever you need a break from the racing lanes of Sheikh Zayed Road, make a pit stop at Kris Kros Lebanon, a roadside fast food diner on the Service Road near the Aspin Commercial Tower. But good luck finding a parking …
Gazebo (26 January 2016) / Kamat (30 January 2016) The formula says: one restaurant, one review. However, within days of each other, I had the good fortune to be invited to visit two adjacent Indian restaurants and have opted to write a neighbourly combined summary. Gazebo and Kamat are stalwarts of the local Indian restaurant …
Brunch… That’s the no man’s land between breakfast and lunch, right? It’s what Angela Lansbury from the 80s American TV series “Murder, She Wrote” would’ve called ‘elevensies’. So imagine my horror when my dear friend and owner of this blog, invited me to ‘brunch’, on a Tuesday at 9pm. Yes, you read that correctly … …
Time Waits For No Man Well, that year has flown by and what an interesting year it’s been for BASCA. The highlight for me has been getting out and about to meet you. BASCA is its members so putting a face to the names that appear on membership application forms is a real joy. A …
What more can be said about Ivor Novello award winner and BASCA member Kate Bush’s recent live performances at Hammersmith Apollo? Is there anything to top ‘perfection’?In the track ‘50 Words For Snow’, Kate lists fifty fanciful, fictitious and nonsensical words or phrases that Eskimos use to describe snow.As homage, Darren Haynes presents his Before …
Three songwriters – Charlie Dore, Emma Stevens and Jon Allen – took to the stage to combine performance of their songs, interspersed with discussion about the songwriting process. Each songwriter performed a powerful three-song set, before Sam York, our able compère, posed the questions. Following questions from the floor, instruments were left on the stage …
Nick Stephenson meets four songwriting legends to discover the story behind their songs. BARRY MASON was a leading songwriter of the 1960s, writing many songs in partnership with Les Reed. He earned numerous awards throughout his career including five Ivor Novello Awards. His songwriting credits include “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)”, “The Last Waltz” …
It’s 5pm on the eve of the Ivor Novello Awards and Christine McVie is sat in her London home, excited and contemplating the forthcoming ceremony and the prospect of accepting her Lifetime Achievement Award. “I’m thrilled to bits. It’s a huge honour and I’m overwhelmed, really.” No stranger to awards, Christine can count Grammy Awards, …
AIR Entertainment Group, which comprises of the AIR and Strongroom brands, has appointed Darren Haynes as Senior Marketing Manager. Haynes said: “It’s an exciting time to join the AIR Entertainment Group as we expand our offering to include complementary content creation alongside our world-class recording facilities. In my new role I’ll be looking to identify …
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MCPS (part of the PRS for Music group) and PPL have joined forces to re-launch the ‘Limited Manufacture Licence (LM)’ as a multi-rights licensing scheme. MCPS (part of the PRS for Music group) and PPL have joined forces to re-launch the ‘Limited Manufacture Licence (LM)’ as a multi-rights licensing scheme, making it even easier …
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