Does rock ‘n’ roll have a conscience? Should it? Does it even matter? While there are many who like to keep their politics and their music separate, rock ‘n’ roll has spawned dozens of artists who used the medium of music to promote and advance their political views and...
This is an oral history project studying the changing nature of our leisure time over the last 60 years. FreeTime volunteer investigators are recording oral histories of our leisure time. Hunting out stories that illuminate the past and shine light on our times. This project aims to preserve and...
Real Ale drinkers are protesting against the refusal by an Officer of Weymouth & Portland Borough Council to list the Albert Inn in Wyke Square as an "Asset of Community Value." The landmark Localism Act 2011 contains an important provision to list pubs and other local community essentials, giving...
For those who are unaware, Bridport's Number 10 Cafe Bar (No10) has been put under yet another license review. This is the second time in recent years that No10 has been targeted, unfairly in many people's opinion, by the local authorities, who paint a very dark, unruly and totally...
Did you ever hear the story of how I got my first play on Radio One? People think it’s apocryphal, involving as it does the procurement of an Indian take-away, but I’m here to tell you that it really happened.
I was in my mid-20s at the time, a veteran...
On Sunday 23rd September in a sweaty mobile portakabin two experiened BBC producers and Kate Wilson from Bridport Arts Centre came away smiling from a dream project that took 18 months to fund and put on air for the community of Bridport and parts of west Dorset. Because of the lack of real radio...
Live at The Electric Palace on Bank Holiday Monday 27th August - The Communicators! Critically acclaimed ska band from Bristol and the south-west. Formed in the early part of 2005 The Communicators performed to sell out audiences across the country, playing their own tracks performed in their own inimitable...
This article paints a poor attitude of our council. I am one of the many musicians who have lost our fee for performing last week at the Bayside Festival. I am more disapopinted that the festival has closed than losing my fee. Its not about "desparation for music" so...
