by Tony Bell | Apr 30, 2024 | UAV
Having stepped back from gig photography after more years than I care to remember I have realised that photographers never retire. They just take different types of photographs. Over the last eighteen months my focus has changed, no pun intended. My love of live music...
by Tony Bell | Sep 7, 2019 | Music, Live Entertainment
The NMG Awards, in case you don’t know, are the New Music Generator Awards which celebrate music in the East of England. This year was Grapevine Magazine’s first involvement with the awards where they sponsored the ‘Indie’ category – with no fewer that sixteen acts...
by Tony Bell | Jan 9, 2015 | Music, Live Entertainment
I first interviewed Jon Parker some years ago when he was backing Jake Morley on a tour. More recently we bumped into each other at FolkEast where Jon was playing with The Will Pound Band. The band are just about to embark on their first tour so it seemed the right...
by Tony Bell | Jul 2, 2014 | Music
“She’ll be the girl who sings for her supper” The lights dimmed and a disembodied voice said simply: “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, from New York, Ms Suzanne Vega”. It was an aptly simple introduction for this diminutive and...
by Tony Bell | Jun 17, 2014 | Music
Ahead of her forthcoming summer gigs in the UK, I had a chat with Suzanne Vega in New York. It has been seven years since Vega released any new work so we talked about the new album, American humour, and why she has a soft spot for the London School of Economics. So,...
