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Set Music Free

26 August 2010
By John A Smith
Set Music Free

Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation promoted the Kickstart project to create copyright free classical music performances, I think this is a good idea and have supported the campaign, they are still a long way from reaching their target but hopefully my little promotion on Twitter, facebook and this BLOG will help.
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“The Interview – the story of the holocaust” Premier

5 April 2010
By John A Smith
“The Interview – the story of the holocaust” Premier

This evening David and I went to Dewsbury Town Hall to see the premier performance of “The Interview – the story of the holocaust” by Jayson Bartlett. It was a grey and damp evening for a trip to Dewsbury by train. Somehow it seemed the right weather to be going to see a play about...
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The Interview – dress rehearsal

25 March 2010
By John A Smith
The Interview – dress rehearsal

I went to the latest rehearsal of The Interview. Afterwards we went to the pub where I recorded Jayson announcing the next production of The Interview to take place in Leeds. Listen!
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The Interview – rehearsal

4 March 2010
By John A Smith
The Interview – rehearsal

On Thursday evening I went to Dewsbury Town Hall for the latest rehearsal of The Interview. It was a happier occasion than last week and most of the cast performed without their script. Posters were distributed, I took three which I put up on Friday. Afterwards some of us went to The...
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Comedy Night

1 March 2010
By John A Smith
Comedy Night

This evening Dave and I had decided to have a change from out usual pool night, I had seen the Adelphi Comedy Night on meetup.com but been unable to attend because of my pool night, then I was too late to get a ticket for us to attend the February Comedy Night so I...
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The Interview – rehearsal

25 February 2010
By John A Smith
The Interview – rehearsal

Tonight I went to Dewsbury Town Hall to see a rehearsal session of The Interview by Jayson Bartlett. before Christmas I had been unable to attend any rehearsals due to the snow, this time there was no problem though the weather was wet and the snow had mostly gone. As is usual I went...
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Sand Painting – Xenia Simonoff, Ukraine’s Got Talent

1 February 2010
By John A Smith
Sand Painting – Xenia Simonoff, Ukraine’s Got Talent

Jayne-Amelia recommended a favorite video on YouTube, the phrase Sand Animation caught my eye so I had a look, the video was so delightful and moving I decided to find the artists web-site if possible, I found some more of her amazing work on ArtisticThings.com. Xenia Simonoff or Kseniya Simonova is a sand painter who...
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Stephen Fry was there!

30 January 2010
By John A Smith
Stephen Fry was there!

Today I had a look at Stephen Fry’s web-site, actually I only opened it to create a new tab in my browser to go to some other web-site, but while there I noticed that he had been at the launch of the new Apple ipod. I had a quick read of his post and decided...
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Driving The Saudis

21 January 2010
By John A Smith
Driving The Saudis

Giovanna recommended a video on facebook; “Anybody in Memphis? Go check out Jayne Amelia Larson in her one woman show – a must see!!!!!”. I had a look at the video on youtube, see below, and decided that if I’d been in Memphis I would go to see it. It’s a one woman play, “Driving the...
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Simon Templar is The Saint

14 January 2010
By John A Smith
Simon Templar is The Saint

I completed the set up of my Simon Templar is The Saint web-site dedicated to all things relating to the famous character created by Leslie Charteris today. It was the same day that I received my copy of The Saint Steps In . . . To Television, the DVD from Amazon. Previously parts of this...
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