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Retailers reported a steep drop in sales in the year to April – matching the decline in December 2008, marking the joint sharpest fall since the survey began in July 1983. The CBI’s monthly Distributive Trades Survey (conducted between 27 March 2020 and 15 April 2020) reveals that retailers expect […]
A chance sighting of classmate Ian Brown’s car on the M40 motorway leads to Si fulfilling one of his boyhood dreams: to play drums at Wembley Stadium, with his latest band, The G.O.D. The Stone Roses had just reformed and Ian offered Si the gig as a birthday present! Top […]
15 years after quitting The Fall, Si met Mark E Smith, at Gulliver’s on Oldham Street in Manchester. Si had been working with Jez Kerr And The Family Bizarre in Ancoats and had popped round the corner for a night cap. He found Mark upstairs in the dressing room ‘guarding […]
Just north of London, in Borehamwood, is Elstree Studios where the BBC filmed TOTP, Grange Hill and other shows. Top of the Pops went on air every Thursday night for decades. School playgrounds were awash with kids raving over the acts they’d seen the night before on Friday mornings! Si […]
SARM Studios is a recording studio located on Basing Street in Notting Hill, London. The studios were established by Chris Blackwell, the infamous founder of Island Records. They were originally known as Basing Street Studios and also as Island Studios. Lots of big stars have recorded here. In 1999, Si […]
SARM Studios is a recording studio located on Basing Street in Notting Hill, London. The studios were established by Chris Blackwell, the infamous founder of Island Records. They were originally known as Basing Street Studios and also as Island Studios. Lots of big stars have recorded here. In 1999, Si […]
Lancashire Volunteer Partnership are offering a telephone befriending service to people across Lancashire that are lonely / vulnerable at this time. Are you concerned about a member of your family or neighbour being lonely or vulnerable at the moment? Loneliness and self-isolation can be hard at the best of times […]
A facility to cope with a significant increase in bereavements is being built in Lancashire as a contingency measure as part of the emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic. The temporary morgue will ensure that the county can respond to the emergency whilst ensuring the deceased continue to be treated […]
New York, USA. Join Si in Union Square in front of the world famous George Washington statue as he waxes lyrical about life on the road with The Fall and Mark E Smith! Mark and Simon get the coolest invitation of the decade! As it happens, Si and Mark were […]
NHS GP Dr Gero Baiarda is one of the hundreds of GPs currently on-call at GPDQ – the UK’s leading GP-on-demand service. Since launching his ‘myth-busting’ series 10 days ago Dr Baiarda has become the media ‘go-to’ for information on what to believe in the interest of our health during […]
