David Thornton reviews the latest CD installment from international man of mystery Jonny Midnight AKA Jim Hayes.
In recent years, Jim Hayes brought his alter ego, Jonny Midnight, to life through his solo recordings. In the programme notes, Jonny Midnight is revealed as ‘An ultimate showman, hell bent on entertainment, his ‘Shooting...read more
Luc Vertommen reviews a most significant piece in the repertory edited and arranged by Anthony George
In the mid-1980s, in a long-forgotten corner of the Cyfarthfa Castle Museum in South Wales, musicologist Trevor Herbert discovered part of the repertoire of the Cyfarthfa Band, founded in 1838 by Robert Thompson Crawshay, whose father...read more