June 2021 update: when I published my football site Salutsunderland.com, this would have featured in my Ten Years After category, blasts from the past that first appeared 10 years before. I'm a few days out on this gem from Salut!... Read more →
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 →
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 →
June 21 2024 update: Andrew Curry today nominated The Dubliners as the Salut! Live Facebook group's Artist(s) of the Week. The clip of "In the Rare Old Times" inexplicably went AWOL from this post but has now been restored ...... Read more →
Sunday is St Patrick's Day and, much of the world over, parades, concerts and serious drinking will mark Ireland's special day, Salut! Live's editorial team - Colin Randall and Andrew Curry - have known each other electronically for years, a... Read more →
May 2022 update: Bob Dylan's 81st gave the prolific and much-followed Twitterman Eric Alper a perfect excuse to ask one of those questions of his: effectively 'name your favourite Dylan cover'. I reported it at this link and listed a... Read more →
Eric Alper -'freelance music publicist. SiriusXM host, shameless idealist, lifelong musicaholic', he says though with more upper case than I'd allow - is the Twitter master of the simple musical question that can reliably be expected to draw hundreds or... Read more →
