Friday 5th Feb 2009
8.00pm : Katy Carr supports Will Kevans on his UK tour to promote his new album at the Jam Cafe 12 Heathcote Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AA Tel:01159 483566 – PLEASE NOTE LAST MINUTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS@!!@!
8.00pm : Katy Carr supports Will Kevans on his UK tour to promote his new album at the Jam Cafe 12 Heathcote Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AA Tel:01159 483566 – PLEASE NOTE LAST MINUTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS@!!@!
Spectral chanteuse stirs wartime ghosts….
‘Coquette’ is a record that has come unstuck in time. It’s a World War II concept album, one imbued with sensuality and loss and passion, not so much evoking as conjuring the period, its sounds and smells, its ghosts. But it’s not a stoic, stuffy period piece. Actually it’s one of the most vibrantly alive records I’ve heard in a long while Read the rest of this entry »
I recently read this incredible article in the Egyptian Gazette in early January about this remarkable and very brave lady Nadine Albdir [a brilliant heroine] who wrote this in Al – Masry Al Youm on December 11, 2009….
‘Let me be wedded to four, even five or nine, is possible; let me chat with them, and choose them according to their different shapes and sizes, handpicked, multi- denominations and religions; it won’t spark a civil war, as a woman can unify them.’
The article provoked uproar, not only in the Egyptian media and legal circles but also in the other Arab Muslim Countries, especially Saudi Arabia. Her controversial and surprising article was entitled ‘My Four Hisbands and I.’
The Holy Qur’an and Islamic Law do not permit polyandry, although Muslim Men can have up to four wives. Read the rest of this entry »
I am very proud to announce that our Magpie’s Nest folk club has got the BBC Folk Club of the Year 2010! well done all – especially Joe Genius Biurski!!!! May the Crow Club and the Magpie’s Nest sing merry, merry songs to our folky families!!!!
Just got 4/5 stars in January’s issue of Maverick – thanks to Steve McCormick for his excellent review! x x xkc
A quirky time machine trip back to the 1940s – I’m not sure how or why this ended up at Maverick Towers. It doesn’t fall into the bracket I expect to hear or read about in these hallowed pages…but…it’s very good – so, listen up….. Read the rest of this entry »
Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou 2009! and hearty cheers to all of you good people. Wishing you a very, merry festive season and may all your dreams come true in 2010 – just think a decade ago we were celebrating the beginning of a new century, how time flies…. Read the rest of this entry »
please find the three youtube clips here for our documentary directed by Hannah Lovell and produced by Katy Carr Sept 2009.
Part 1
Read the rest of this entry »
Specjalnie dla The Polish Observer : Katy Carr
Mark Riddaway meets Marylebone-based singer Katy Carr and hears about an Auschwitz escape, her love of flying and meeting Vera Lynn
Following her first two sensuous albums, Screwing Lies and Passion Play, comes this strange, heavenly beauty. Read the rest of this entry »