Moonlighters Music consisted of Jan Ponsford & Janette Mason (with Jessica Palin guesting at this gig)
Audience member Paul Steeples, taken from www.juliemyers.org.uk: I remember going to an event protesting about censorship, mainly to see Tony Benn performing with Test Department (which he did, and it was good). Halfway through the evening, Salman Rushdie got up on stage and said he had been made the subject ...
Part of the Seven Nights for Nelson festival, marking the end of Nelson Mandela’s 26-year imprisonment.
A decade is a very, very long time in performance poetry, so this was a well-earned celebration. However, one despatch to Time Out’s letters page (24 Sep) found the show to be ‘a sickened, weakened thing’, thanks to ‘pollution by PCAs (politically correct attitudes)’. Proof that you can’t please all ...
This was a book reading at Compendium Bookshop. The Compendium Bookshop in Camden which opened 1968 was closed in 2001, ask anyone of a certain age and they’ll tell you it was a destination bookshop for bohemian alternative types.