Colin Lester and Kanya King MBE in conversation at Solent University

On 7th May 2019 the end of year music industry talk at Solent University comprised guest speakers Colin Lester, artist Continue reading →

Swinford Museum Exhibition 2019: The Music and Musicians of Filkins and Broughton Poggs

In 2019 I volunteered to research and curate an exhibition about music and musicians for my local community museum in Continue reading →

Forthcoming chapter in french edition

What a wonderful surprise to find an email asking for an author biography in relation to a chapter which I Continue reading →

Join us at Oxford’s 2018 IF Festival

Come and join myself and Dr Jan Butler at Oxford’s IF Festival on Friday 19th October 7-8.30pm at the Wig Continue reading →

On the ‘rights’ track

I really enjoyed delivering my paper titled ‘On the rights track: song life stories, rights migrations and the priceless ‘original” Continue reading →

Crosstown Traffic: Panel session 3rd Sept ’18

Here’s a summary of the panel session which I’m delivering with my esteemed colleagues from the Music Dept. at Oxford Continue reading →

New Power Generation: 2018 Common People Oxford

The artist formerly known as Prince had been one of my teenage idols from around the mid 1980s up until Continue reading →

Vintage Henry Hall Song Book

I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea to go rummaging through dusty boxes of books and magazines at car boot Continue reading →