Heyday - Tim Hart & Maddy Prior

Advantages: A thoroughly great night out
Disadvantages: Depends on your taste in music

...Maddy Prior has the most beautiful voice. She used to be lead singer with Steeleye Span in the 70’s and I always loved their music – remember the hit All Around My Hat? I saw Steeleye Span perform live at the open air concert at Cardiff Castle where 10CC were topping the bill. It had rained all afternoon and we were all soaked but as Maddy Prior took the stage the rain stopped! I didn't really know her at that time but the music was brilliant and her voice was so clear. Well, now she sings with The Carnival Band, a group of 5 musicians who can play an amazing number of instruments. As you take your seats for the performance the stage is littered with guitars, fiddles, drums of all sorts, bagpipes (Irish and Flemish), oboe and many instruments I’d never even heard of! Dave's boss had suggested that he went to... Read review

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Advantages: Great read
Disadvantages: None to speak of

...When you see a great magazine on sale with a fantastic photograph of an always glamorous and irresistible Suzi Quatrro, who you have fancied like mad since you first saw her on Top of the Pops?and you read the article and see that Suzi is now aged 56, you KNOW you are in trouble! Such were the mixed feelings when I was reading the magazine Heyday. Heyday is the magazine for the Baby Boomer Generation, and although at 49 I am not strictly speaking a Baby Boomer, I have to say that I found the magazine an extremely interesting read of 130 pages. There are special interviews with celebrities like Suzi Quatro (sigh? oh! Sorry! Better get back to the review, hadn't I?!) and in the issue I am reviewing (November/December) the magazine had, as "Experts in this issue" Rosalind Cooper on wine who wrote a fascinating article on fortified... Read review

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Advantages: Fast Paced, Several Suspects
Disadvantages: -

...Tami Hoag has written many novels, but I have to say I have formed an attachment to the Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska detective crime series. Prior Bad Acts is a fast paced thriller involving the police department, Kovac and Liska, the advocate?s bench Chris Logan and Kenny Scott and the judge Carey Moore. The police partnership of Kovac and Liska can be traced back to Hoag?s previous books originally forming in her 1999 novel Ashes to Ashes. However despite the working relationship having developed over the novels, there is no romance to watch out for (yet) between these two cops. Kovac is a fast thinking, fast moving police detective who likes to lead with his feet, thinking about the consequences later, whilst Liska is a petite female officer with blonde cropped hair and the ability to cut down a criminal verbally in minutes. The pair... Read review

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