

How to Smile Upside Down: New Album Sept 2020 Gary Hurlstone
This album has taken nine months to complete. Nine people provided the inspiration for the songs. Nine musicians contributed. It will be...


Waway Linsashay Saway: Music from Beyond the Clouds
Talaandig Tribe (Mindanao) The Talaandig Tribe is comprised of some 10,000 people. Their home is deep in the heart of the mountainous,...


Ajinai: Mongolian Music ... but not as you know it!
Hugejiletu, founder of Ajinia, set out his vision right at the beginning of 2009 when the band was first formed: retain his Mongolian...


FM3 Ting Shuo (Listen Before Speaking)
FM3 is Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian, a duo that create sublime sounds that, to paraphrase Timothy Leary, are ideal to turn in,...


Rock and Roll Confessions: From Stone to Shenzhen
In 1985 the UK pop group, ‘Wham’ played in front of over 10,000 people at the Workers’ Stadium in Beijing, one of the first Western...


Dancing with the Hare
Stoke on Trent Artist, Gillie Nicholls: Performer, Ceramist, Sculptor From early childhood beginnings in Northwood Hanley, artist, Gillie...


Northern Soul Boy - The Story Behind the Song
The Northern Soul: Stoke on Trent: Creating Success from Failure ‘Sometimes I feel I've got to, run away, I've got to get away’. So, sang...


The Girl at Charing Cross Station: The story behind the song
"Living, I loved her dearly and I shall never cease to love her in death." Edward 1st This song was originally inspired after I read an...


The Zen Kick: The story behind the song
The Zen Kick - 2012 Shenzhen China/2008 Lhasa Tibet Gary Hurlstone The October Lijiang Snow Mountain Music Festival was to blame. Too...