Andrew Curry writes: We noticed a while back that the guitarist and singer Wizz Jones had celebrated his 85th birthday this year, and we mentioned it on our Facebook group. But we realised that we’d never written about him properly... Read more →
Sept 12 2024 update: Colin Randall names Oysterband as his Artists of the Week at the Salut! Live Facebook group ...
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When Bill Taylor compared very different versions of Dirty Old Town - the song about Salford that Ewan MacColl wrote for a play in 1949 - in our Cover Story series, there was lively if modest interest. Bill's piece first... Read more →
Bill Taylor writes: Anne Lindsay is the latest Artist of the Week at Salut! Live's Facebook group, thanks to a photo I shot more than 20 years ago. Colin Randall wanted a new profile pic for the site so I... Read more →
Colin Randall writes: Dick Gaughan is the new Artist of the Week at Salut! Live's Facebook group. This is a better version of the photo used in the Faceb0ok posting by our deputy editor Andrew Curry. It was taken by... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: Following on from Colin’s piece yesterday on the Artist of the Week slot at our Facebook group, we’re sharing a version of the AOTW Facebook post that celebrated Linda Thompson. This was partly to mark her latest... Read more →
Colin Randall writes: Unlike the newspapers for which I have worked, on the staff or as a contributor, Salut! Live does not hold editorial conferences (nor, as you'll have noticed, does it publish a print edition). The three of us... Read more →
Bill Taylor writes: It’s amazing what you can find when you’re not looking for anything in particular. I was wandering aimlessly around YouTube and stumbled across something that sparked my interest. And that led to something else and something else... Read more →
