Dickie Felton, Author at Dickie Felton

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8 April 2021

Lockdown lates in a Prowsey paradise

Dickie Felton 9 April 2021 Middle of March 2020, Covid chaos and a Liverpool singer decides to cheer people up with a handful of Facebook gigs. Three lockdowns, 13 months…

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11 March 2021

“Dad, when you die do you get a bench?”

Conversations amid the constellations during the nightly lockdown loop. And it was nice to dispense with the Bose headphones as son Frankie joined me to walk and talk. Somewhere…

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6 March 2021

When the sun shone in 1991

By Dickie Felton If I could time travel to any year in my life I'd have a re-run of 1991. We were penniless but about to experience a year of…

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6 February 2021

30 years a veggie: why I don’t eat animals

The waitress at the Whitley Bay cafe was bewildered when I asked for a vegetarian breakfast... "What's one of them?" she responded in dumbfounded disbelief. The rain fell hard…

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30 January 2021

Spending Saturday with my setlists…

By Dickie Felton Saturday 30 January 2021 004 My modest collection of concert setlists are making sweet music in new £1.75 Asda frames. Lockdown time-on-my-bands has me reassessing my concert collateral.…

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23 January 2021

Why I’m still buying tickets for concerts which may not take place…

Welcome to my new irregular column released each Saturday sunrise (or, er, lunchtime...) No3 My investment in tickets for events and gigs which may never happen currently stands at…

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22 January 2021

Kill Uncle at 30: Oddball album or timeless classic?

My vinyl copy of Kill Uncle soon turns 30-years-old yet remains in mint condition... The gatefold is so pristine it looks like it was released last month, not at the…

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16 January 2021

The hills are alive with the sound of silence

Welcome to my new irregular column released each Saturday sunrise. Be here or steer clear… Number 2 Saturday 16 January 2021 As things stand my wheelie bin is getting…

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10 January 2021

Living with Duane Syndrome…

Early 1980s, me in school uniform with an eye specialist avidly examining my left socket. Worried parents pointing and prodding: “Our Richard’s eye won’t look left”. I’m not sure why…

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8 January 2021

Daydreaming wearing Vans like Vaseline…

Welcome to my new irregular column released each Saturday sunrise. Be here or steer clear... Saturday 9 January 2021 Only a few days into England's third lockdown and I'm dreaming…

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