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October 2020

Barbara Dickson's cure for lockdown blues: Time is Going Faster reviewed

Photo credit: Brian Aris When the week began, I planned to post my review of Barbara Dickson's new album, Time is Going Faster, at about the same time as the two-part interview. Tragic events in France got in the way... Read more →


Barbara Dickson briefly: Scottish independence, Marcus & Rishi and a question of pride

Photo: Brian Aris UPDATE: My review of Barbara Dickson's new album, Time is Going Faster, appears at https://www.salutlive.com/2020/10/time-is-going-faster.html The Big Interview with Barbara Dickson, as I like to call it, appears at this Salut! Live link: https://www.salutlive.com/2020/10/the-big-interview-barbara-dickson.html. In keeping with... Read more →


The Big Interview: Barbara Dickson, hating lockdown, rejecting celebrity, loving her music

Photo: Brian Aris UPDATE: My review of Barbara Dickson's new album, Time is Going Faster, appears at https://www.salutlive.com/2020/10/time-is-going-faster.html Twice so far this century, I have mistakenly remembered Barbara Dickson as a member of the Scottish folk trio Bitter Withy, who... Read more →


The Auld Triangle: Glen Hansard par hasard - Paris, NYC, London and Chicago

Glen Hansard by Niccolò Caranti A woman giving her name as Claire, commenting at YouTube on a clip of one of stars of The Commitments, Glen Hansard, and band performing The Auld Triangle at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival had something of... Read more →


Cover Story (47). Losing control: Zombie by the Cranberries, Miley Cyrus and others

Dolores O'Riordan fronts the Cranberries in a 2016 Netherlands concert. Image: Bart Notermans from Rotterdam Editor's note; Miley Cyrus's name was misspelt in the the original headline. The entire sub-editing team would be sacked if we had one For his... Read more →


Cover Story: (46) the songs and the story so far with Beeswing way in front

The most widely read item at Salut! Live, at least this week, is the piece I posted yesterday about the vibrant song of defiance and opposition to fascism, Bella Ciao, in which I briefly describe how performing it in northern... Read more →