Learning Guitar – Will It Take You A Long Time?

Pupils nearly always ask this question from their teachers: Just how long can it take to learn guitar? Well, there isn’t ‘one’ answer to this specific concern. Mastering guitar �±s really a process, it has no finish line. All of us are pupils all our lives. Even a teacher is a student of guitar. What’s [...]

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BARACK OBAMA – Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007

BARACK OBAMA – Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007

“…We don’t need more heat in government, we need more light … Hope … That thing inside us that exists, that despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting before us around the corner; but only if we are willing to work for it and fight for it. To shed our fears [...]

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GET SHORTY – Seven-Piece Hip Hop/Funk Collective

GET SHORTY – Seven-Piece Hip Hop/Funk Collective

Shakila Rajendra chats to the London collective who are determined to make a mark with their cross-genre brand of hip hop/funk music. Let’s get one thing straight, Shorty aren’t an all singing all dancing group of (let’s be politically correct here) ‘vertically-challenged people’. Neither are they a girl band who named themselves so, out of [...]

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TOM HUNTER – Living in Hell and Other Stories

TOM HUNTER – Living in Hell and Other Stories

Currently exhibiting at The National Gallery is an east London artist depicting real life stories taken from The Hackney Gazette. Tom Hunter tells these stories using carefully staged, large format photographs, restaging them in compositions that often directly refer to classic paintings of the past, many of the paintings to which Hunter has referred for [...]

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LOIN DU VIETNAM – Far From Vietnam

LOIN DU VIETNAM – Far From Vietnam

Loin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais. Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure [...]

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WORLD CUP 2006 – The Mistake, the Genius & the Penalty

WORLD CUP 2006 – The Mistake, the Genius & the Penalty

The Beeb pundit, the other day summed-up how the German game against Italy should finish: By one of those three likely occurrences. A fitting triumvirate for what was a… …MISTAKE Poor Ronaldo. Again one of the best player yesterday and probably the best youngster we have seen on show at the world-cup. To be hated, [...]

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JAZZ IN THE CITY – Exploration of Jazz & Art

JAZZ IN THE CITY – Exploration of Jazz & Art

Nina considers the musical language of jazz to be one of her greatest inspirations. Her exhibition, Jazz in the City is the culmination of a life’s work for this innovative and unique artist. It also begins a tour featuring Nina as an artist in residence, to include The International Jazz Festival in Moscow, during which [...]

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VICTOR SALVETTI – Fashion Feminism Factories

VICTOR SALVETTI – Fashion Feminism Factories

Semi chain-smoking rollies, Victor Salvetti wears a black T-shirt printed with little cartoon skulls. Grabbing his hair periodically, coaxing the quiff, his left eyebrow mirrors the ironic raising of the edge of his mouth and his lilting Aussie accent. The two personalities of elaborate perfectionist and grounded working class man constantly challenge and compliment each [...]

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ISMAIL KADARE – Man Booker International Prize Winner 2005

ISMAIL KADARE – Man Booker International Prize Winner 2005

“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible… The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship” Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer of broad international reputation who has been living in France, has won the first ever Man Booker International Prize recently. He has received the prize of £60,000 and a trophy at the Award Ceremony on 27 June [...]

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