COVENTRY ARTS NET IS BACK!
Welcome back to Cov Arts Net! With the up and coming bid for City of Culture 2021 gaining speed, we at Cov Arts Net we decided that it was time to relaunch this...
COVENTRY ARTS NET Blog
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PRE-FEST, TARRANTINO AND PHILLIPS
June 2015, proved for me to be one of the most memorable months in Coventry for music in a long time. In the month of June, we are treated to not one but two...
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THE CARROT RETURNS
“I left my tuner in Bristol”, began Brigid Power-Rice, when she began her support slot for Peter Broderick at Tin Music Arts recently. That threw me a little, I must confess. I thought...
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Theatre Review
When author John Boyne set out to write a novel about an unlikely friendship between two young boys, he didn’t realize that what he’d end up with would be widely used to educate people...
MURPHY, CHLOE, QUINN, SOME PIGEONS AND SOME MOONBEARS
The month of April 2015 saw the usual eclectic mix at the Nursery Tavern care of the ever reliable Elaine Tierney. First up we had a young guitarist that called himself “Murphy” who performed...
TWO BLOKES CALLED JON AND A FRENZIED CELLIST
As is usually the case with these columns, we begin with “The Tin at the Nursery Tavern”. Elaine Tierney presented her usual eclectic mix of acts. kicking off proceedings was local folk singer and...
Responsible Use of Looping
Two City Sounds is, as one might imagine, a collaborative arts project involving artistes from two cities – in this instance, Coventry and Hull. The evening in question at Tin Music Arts featured...
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is one of my favourite plays. I first encountered the play when a green, 17 year old deputy stage manager working on my first production. One thing that sticks in my...
BAPTISTS AND BELLS
In the last month, I’ve seen Coventry’s finest set blues and soul practitioners The Baptists on not one but two occasions and in both instances they were quite different performances. The first one was...
Christmas in Coventry
I am an unashamed Christmas addict. I watch every Christmas special and Christmas baking show with barely contained glee. My decorations went on the first week of December and I love to drive around...
AUSTIN TEXAS, MALI, NEW ORLEANS AND COVENTRY
“Halloween is a strange time of year for me. My father always dressed up as Jim Rockford and my mother as Lacey from Cagney & Lacey”. So began the set of English/Canadian singer/songwriter John...
No Off Switch
“You’ll have to excuse me, I haven’t been myself since Jason Orange told us all he was leaving Take That” were the opening words to the One Man Show of one of my broadcasting...
Simon Beck – An Interview
Coventry Arts Net has managed to get a unique question and answer session with singer Simon Beck, who will be bringing his show to Rugby Theatre. In 1994, Simon performed the leading role of...
Support Your Local Theatre – A Call to Arms
It amazes me how much Coventry has to offer. Next week you have the option of seeing a musical tribute to Coventry’s past OR a local theatre take on three cut-down Shakespeare plays in...