Podcasts about when the curtain falls

Greta Van Fleet puts a new spin on classic rock with blaring guitar riffs that could've come from every smokey basement in the 70s. Their concert was a tribute to the genre giants but did not pay any homage. Instead, it was a direct lineage of rock's greatest mythologies, as if music and time had never moved forward. It was as if there weren't nearly 50 years of history separating reality and the music. But were the "Safari Song" rockers the genre's savior or misguided kids with their heads in the clouds?For more Yesterday's Concert

Greta Van Fleet puts a new spin on classic rock with blaring guitar riffs that could've come from every smokey basement in the 70s. Their concert was a tribute to the genre giants but did not pay any homage. Instead, it was a direct lineage of rock's greatest mythologies, as if music and time had never moved forward. It was as if there weren't nearly 50 years of history separating reality and the music. But were the "Safari Song" rockers the genre's savior or misguided kids with their heads in the clouds?

Join Shaykh Suhaib Webb for a Jummah Reflection entitled "When The Curtain Falls".

* Agnieszka Checka is a writer. She has a zine about the experience of moving to Scotland, which is out now and available on Etsy. It’s called ‘One Of The Good Ones’. Her essay ‘When The Curtain Falls’ is going to be featured in the anthology The Bi-ble volume II: New Testimonials, which will be published by Monstrous Regiment in the summer. It’s about growing up queer in Poland.* Alison Phipps is Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow, and the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She is also co-convenor of GRAMNET, the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network. Her book ‘Decolonising Multilingualism’ will be published by Multilingual Matters in June 2019. If you would like to read more about her ideas on multilingualism before June, a good place to start is here. She also recently released a book of poetry written with Zimbabwean writer Tawona Sitholé, which you can find here. You can follow her on Twitter here.* Eva Hanna is a PhD student who studies multilingualism. She is also the parents of two multilingual children. She also has a couple of excellent blog posts about the value of multilingualism which you can read here and here.* Natalie Findlayson stopped speaking German as a kid, but once she’d left school she ended up studying it at uni, spending some time in Germany and becoming completely fluent. Her parents might have felt at the time like they hadn’t succeeded in raising a bilingual kid but, ultimately, in a roundabout way, they did. She now teaches German and French at the University of Glasgow.* Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney and based in Edinburgh. Their poetry collections Tonguit (2015) and The Games (2018) were both shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, and Tonguit for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Harry Josephine was the 2009 BBC Scotland slam champion, founded Inky Fingers Spoken Word, and co-directs the performance platform Anatomy. Their participatory theatre has toured widely, including Forest Fringe (UK), NTI (Latvia), CrisisArt (Italy) and Teszt (Romania). Harry Josephine’s performance What We Owe was picked by the Guardian's best-of-the-Fringe 2013 roundup – in the “But Is It Art?” category.* Andrew Macdonell lives in Brussels and tells people how to apply for research funding from the EU.

* Antonella Sorace is Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She is a world leading authority on bilingualism over the lifespan.* Kyle Bettley is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Clyde College, teaching British Sign Language Studies and ESOL.* Diana Lugo López is a PhD student studying multilingualism at the University of Edinburgh.* Eva Hanna is a PhD student who studies multilingualism at the University of Glasgow. She is also the parent of two multilingual children. She has a couple of excellent blog posts about the value of multilingualism which you can read here and here.* Paweł is a teacher at Polska Szkoła Glasgow.* Agnieszka Checka is a writer. She has a zine about the experience of moving to Scotland, which is out now and available on Etsy. It’s called ‘One Of The Good Ones’. Her essay ‘When The Curtain Falls’ is going to be featured in the anthology The Bi-ble volume II: New Testimonials, which will be published by Monstrous Regiment in the summer. It’s about growing up queer in Poland.***Antonella is the founder of Bilingualism Matters, a research centre at the University of Edinburgh which has partner branches all over Europe and the US, run by an international team of researchers. They study bilingualism and language learning, and communicate what they know to enable people to make informed decisions based on scientific evidence. You can follow them on Twitter here, and you can read about some of the research they’ve been involved in recently here and here. Look for upcoming events here.***The social enterprise Lingo Flamingo run a programme of language classes for older people living in care homes across Scotland. Their paid-for classes for all ages help to fund the care home classes. You can sign up to learn Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, English, German or Polish with them, or you can volunteer to be a language teacher. You can follow them on Twitter here.***

In this podcast we ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Sabrina Claudio, Greta Van Fleet, and Brushy One String. It is about all about new artists and bets for much success in 2019. We shine a light on a sultry R&B artist, a true rock revival band playing the real thing, and a street musician that is known as the king of the one-string guitar. Follow: https://www.instagram.com/nobullsessions/ https://www.instagram.com/richardbulltoro/ Sabrina Claudio “Unravel me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBVskvS7-vo “Frozen”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IezlWijcdQk Greta Van Fleet "Highway Song": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJg4OJxp-co "When The Curtain Falls": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86_vnQc1oBE Brushy One String "Chicken in the Corn": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8H-67ILaqc "No Man Stop Me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfxMYSJSVTY

This first episode features Jim Knight who is one of the UK’s leading saxophonists and producers. He has performed with a star-studded list of artists live and has also worked on the London theatre scene. As well as performing live Jim also does recording sessions around London and runs his own studio 'Knight Time Studios' where he has engineered and performed for many more big named artists, most recently of which is Carrie Hope Fletcher and her latest album ‘When The Curtain Falls’ which is currently ranked fifth in the iTunes album chart. Check out all Jim is doing here: http://www.knighttimestudios.com/ In this episode we talk about: Transitioning from being a student to becoming a fully fledged professional performer. How to get and keep the work you want. The current state of the music industry. Social media and it’s influence on a musicians’ career. And much, much more. Enjoy!