“That old deep-down-into-your-stomach-coming-up-out-of-your-heart sound, that’s the Muscle Shoals sound.” Or, at least, that’s how Candi Staton puts it at the beginning of this award-winning documentary about one of the most influential, yet least trumpeted locations in music history. Muscle Shoals, a small town in Alabama, sits on the banks of the Tennessee River – sometimes …
What makes me unhappy? Tourists. I know we need them. It’s just they get in the way! Charlotte Duckworth has spent the last ten years writing for interior design magazines and websites – “including five very happy years working on the Southbank for IPC Media in the amazing Blue Fin Building”, she says. She recently …
Southsayer: Charlotte Duckworth, journalist and digital communications agency co-chief Read More »
As the Southbank’s Meltdown festival celebrates its 20th anniversary, Yoko Ono has taken on the role of curator supremo, concocting a programme to make any self-respecting muso’s mouth water. Might the fact that she’s one of only three-ever female Meltdown curators have influenced the rich array of female musicians she’s conjured up? From Patti Smith …
Review: Cibo Matto at Meltdown, Southbank Centre,
15 June 2013 Read More »
How are you spending your bank holiday weekend? If you’re below the river – though it’s barely a hop from the north either – do swing by the Southbank. All weekend there will be music, live graffiti and sporting entertainment in the form of wheel-based tricks. For you’ll be in the company of the campaigning …
Pinboard Extra: party with the Southbank-saving skaters this weekend Read More »
Duncan Pearce, 24, is the force behind the impressive Save Southbank Skatepark campaign that has been garnering much media attention since the space was recently threatened with relocation. In less than a month, Pearce and a network of fellow skaters and supporters of The Undercroft, as the famous skate-park, pictured above, is also known, have …
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