"'World Music' is reckoned to be the fastest growing genre in the music business, with sales booming in the High Street. If this is true then the three-day WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) Festival - now in its 11th year at Reading - has to take some of the credit." David Stockton reviews the 2000 WOMAD.
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Category: Leisure
In a feature shamelessly “inspired” by The Times’s Culture Vulture, British Expat brings you the above titled (subtitled “Things you should own, if they’re the sort of thing you might like…”).
This week we’re on to “F”, and the first time I’ve chosen a book. The only other real contenders were Falling Down, Michael Douglas’s bad hair day, and Falling Towards England – part of Clive James’s autobiography. Lots of falling. I’ve plumped for Freedom in Exile, the Dalai Lama of
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Atoz goes for a feel-good choice for "E" - starring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone and, er, Russell Osman...
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In which Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers are d-feated by two blokes from the Catskill Mountains, NY.
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Culture Vulture Schmulture – G
In a feature shamelessly “inspired” by The Times’s Culture Vulture, British Expat brings you the above titled (subtitled “Things you should own, if they’re the sort of thing you might like…”).
This week we’re on to “G”, and you’ll be surprised to hear that – in what is rapidly becoming time-honoured tradition (is it possible to become time-honoured rapidly?) – I’ve thought of something I forgot last time around. Full Metal Jacket is boss. (That means good, for the editor’s info’.)
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