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colin randall
London/France
Salut! Live reflects my passion for folk and related music - I'm a journalist and lifelong Sunderland supporter, based in France and London, from where I write about most things under the sun and the rain
Interests: film, football, france, badminton, folk music
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Damien Dempsey: earthily classy singer-songwriter, utterly classy life-saver
Posted Apr 28, 2023 at Salut! Live
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'Can I please be Linda Thompson?' Rachel Unthank's dream
Posted Apr 10, 2023 at Salut! Live
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Elephants in the room. Leon Rosselson’s life of song and protest
Posted Apr 6, 2023 at Salut! Live
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Hammersmith bound: T with the Maggies, four astonishing female Irish talents
Posted Apr 1, 2023 at Salut! Live
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Celtic Connections: the curtain comes down with Bonny Light Horseman and dreams of Elvis
Posted Mar 18, 2023 at Salut! Live
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Celtic Connections: young blood and lesser-spotted folk talent
Posted Mar 9, 2023 at Salut! Live
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Celtic Connections: honouring Jim McLean, a man of principle in the mould of Ed Pickford and Alex Glagsow
Posted Feb 27, 2023 at Salut! Live
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Celtic Connections: Transatlantic Sessions on the road again
Posted Feb 21, 2023 at Salut! Live
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Celtic Connections: Duncan Chisholm gives musical life to Scottish hills
Andrew Curry is a neglectful music website editor's dream. He comes up with ideas for which gigs he should review, pays his own way there and into the venue and files his articles as promptly, cleanly and engagingly as if... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2023 at Salut! Live
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When the call of the black crow - and the clanging of Sunderland's shipyards - go still
Posted Jan 18, 2023 at Salut! Live
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On Sandy Denny’s birthday, we choose our favourite songs
Posted Jan 6, 2023 at Salut! Live
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At last: the Pitmen Poets singing The Workers’ Song. And how to resolve the winter of discontent
Posted Dec 26, 2022 at Salut! Live
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For Christmas present, greetings from Salut! Live and a tracklist without hits
Posted Dec 24, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Song and performance of the year: Pitmen Poets and Ed Pickford's Workers' Song
Posted Dec 19, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Linda Thompson: giving that fabulous voice back to its owner
Posted Dec 15, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Christmas folk: seasonal antidotes to corporate festive jollity
Posted Dec 12, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Loft Vinyl: (9) Fairport Convention and Heyday
Posted Dec 3, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Christine McVie RIP: born Perfect
Posted Dec 1, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Kris Drever: from holding off Womad mud to mocking lying politicians
Posted Nov 23, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Lindisfarne: remnants, rags and reminders
Posted Nov 21, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Ain’t Nothing But … a great British blues bar
Posted Nov 13, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Rab Noakes RIP: news of his death 'hit me like a heavy ton of bricks'
As years go by, acquaintance with death is unavoidable. Friends, relatives, former colleagues and people you know a little or a lot succumb to nature's way of doing things. The certainty of mortality hardly makes it easier when loved or... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2022 at Salut! Live
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The Unthanks: cast sorrows away and relish an outstanding musical triumph
Posted Nov 10, 2022 at Salut! Live
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The other, superior Folk Colin has left us. RIP Colin Irwin
Posted Nov 4, 2022 at Salut! Live
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Steve Ashley: no audience with the Queen (having a special day)
Posted Nov 2, 2022 at Salut! Live
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