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 →
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 →
We all face death, sooner or later, writes Colin Randall. It’s nevertheless heartbreaking to think of all the wasted lives taken early on battlefields, in violent society or through accidents and illness. When I listen to 1917, David Olney’s gripping... Read more →
July 18 2024 update: read on and explore the links to other articles about Music from North Eastern England, says Colin Randall. Over at the Salut! Live Facebook group, Bill Taylor has made Alan Price his Artist of the Week... Read more →
NB: comments are open after briefly - and unintentionally - being closed Salut! Live's popular Cover Story articles, in which we compare different interpretations of the same pieces of music, now runs to 76 instalments (that figure is a little... Read more →
Colin Randall writes: Nationalism gets a bad press. The word makes us think of hideous figure of the far right, all the way from Le Pen, Zemmour, Wilders and Meloni to Trump and - increasingly - the headbanger wing of... Read more →
