David McAlmont @ the Royal Festival Hall

August 12, 2008

Well, not a review really. More of a “heads up”. The Whingers are almost certainly not going to see The Wizard of Oz at the Royal Festival Hall because it isn’t Christmas. Even the lure of the legendary Roy Hudd was not quite enough to overcome their seasonal prejudices.

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A talent to Listen for

August 12, 2008

Natasha Panas is a Sade-ishly smooth jazz-, soul- and blues-influenced singer-songwriter with a startling backstory. Her Warsaw-born grandmother, Ruth Altbeker Cyprys, escaped the Nazis with Panas’s mother, then two years old, by cutting through the bars of a train truck heading for Treblinka concentration camp.

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Yorkshire Today: August 08

August 11, 2008