Axbridge News: get ready for the sounds of the sixties as the music of The Kinks and Ray Davies are set to bring a Waterloo Sunset to Axbridge Town Hall
By Harry Mottram: The Bootleg Beatles, Brit Floyd, Bohemian Queen, The Iron Maidens, The Real Diamond, Counterfeit Kylie, Chic to…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: keeping it real in an engrossing, amusing and life affirming novel – in Paul Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies
Book Review: The Brooklyn Follies, by Paul Auster The opening line of the novel seems at odds as to what…
ICSM Business Insolvency News: the rise and rise of Ghost Business Insolvencies – firms that don’t shut down when they go bust but enter a grey area of trading for a time
By Harry Mottram: ICSM has seen a rise in firms that say they are insolvent and lay off their staff and…
Rapscallion Magazine: notes on angry motorists, cowardly dogs, pointless cycle paths and Chelsea Tractors by a harmless cyclist
On a cycle ride across England recently Harry Mottram made some observations on cycle paths and road users that make…
Axbridge News: from torturing 17th century Catholics to ancient fire festivals – the history of Somerset carnivals is diverse – as Axbridge gears up for this year’s carnival on September 21
By Harry Mottram: It might be me but I don’t think we should celebrate the torture and execution of 17th…
Axbridge News: a groovy modern pop festival take on Shakespeare’s celebrated comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set to be staged in the Town Hall
By Harry Mottram: Written in around 1595 in a very different England, A Midsummer Night’s Dream remains one of William…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: in part four and the final account of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – a meeting with my best man, views over Cumbria on Shap Fell, soaked in Preston, dialling 999 and a life-saving heart operation in Carlisle
The story so far: I had completed the section from Land’s End to my home in Axbridge in three days…
Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: the Minack Theatre was the perfect setting for a production of The French Lieutenant’s Woman but at times the wind and rain were the main characters
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Minack Theatre Hugh Grant, Jude Law, Arnold Schwarzenegger and even a few of my friends –…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: part three of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – the lost roads of England with Ashley, a wet wedding and the signs on a toilet cubicle door which suggests cottaging hasn’t died out in Exeter
The story so far: I arrived in Cornwall and camped near Land’s End and set off on a sunny morning…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: part two of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – robbed on the train to Penzance, death of an actor, and a deserted Land’s End
The story so far: following my recovery from a near fatal road accident I’ve been given the all clear by…