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 →
August 2024 update: not Christmas but over at the Facebook group, Bill Taylor has made Paul Brady his Artist of the Week, a minor honour thoroughly deserved .... Join the Salut! Live Facebook group. Visit this link now CLICK ANYWHERE... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: Over at our Facebook group, Linda Thompson is our Artist of the Week, partly to mark her recent release of Proxy Music. The songs are co-written by Thompson with a range of partners, including her son Teddy,... Read more →
