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Peter Edgerton
"This should be entertaining," is, under normal circumstances, a phrase designed to delight the ears, offering a prelude to forthcoming fun, games and general shenanigans. It's somewhat less appealing, however, when the orator is your dentist and he'
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Peter Edgerton
These are times for rejoicing in the small pleasures of life: bacon sandwiches, making music, both of the Manchester teams losing, reading the paper while having a couple of pints. Oh, wait. That last one has been snatched from our disbelieving
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Peter Edgerton
At the time of writing, there's a sudden chill in the air as the Andalusian weather takes a distinct turn and people feel obliged to enter rooms performing that ineffectual flappy arm rapid self-embrace thing, rubbing their hands together, blowing in
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Peter Edgerton
Malaga for one of the most popular radio programmes in Spain which was on a sort of roadshow tour thingy. The pop group from Madrid were on because they had just had a big hit and I was chosen to represent the Malaga music scene, presumably because of my
What to do
Tony Bryant
Lovers of a traditional-style country hoedown will enjoy Cowboys and Kisses, a show packed with classic country and western music and accompanied by a troupe of dancing cowgirls performing country waltz and line dancing. Presented by Costa ... favourites Johnny G and Melissa Carver, the show presents the best of country music legends such as Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, Garth Brooks and Shania Twain. Johnny and Melissa are both well-established on the coast and their country show was ... enjoyed by sell out audiences in Fuengirola last October. The concert will be held at the La Sierra Restaurant - Cerrado del Águila Golf and Resort - in Mijas Costa on Saturday 30 January. The music starts at 1.30pm. Tickets cost 35 euros and include
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denise bush
Music and Dance Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Music Concerts Iris Nieto, Malaga Malaga. Auditorio del Museo Picasso de Málaga. 12 January, 8pm Quinteto de Jazz OFM. 2 February, 8pm Harmoniemusik Málaga. 9 March, 8pm
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Peter Edgerton
Many's the time that Spanish friends of mine have looked on, aghast at my behaviour. One of my favourites was about fifteen years ago when, after some social occasion or other, I bade farewell to the assembled mob and left. A few days later I was wit
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Peter Edgerton
Thwack! It certainly makes for an inauspicious start to the day, when the first thing you see is your mobile phone smashing into the wall opposite and falling unceremoniously to the floor. Well, I shouldn't say 'day' - it was in fact about 10pm -
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Peter Edgerton
The town of Torrijos, with a population of 13,466, lies about twenty minutes' drive to the north of the city of Toledo in Castilla-La Mancha. Were you ever to pass by, you might be struck by its vivid urban art work or, indeed, the magnificent Pala
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Peter Edgerton
...identify songs; that's an awful lot of souls straining and flailing their arms in the air towards music speakers. How did we get here? Well, the sheer quantity of easily available music these days means that it's impossible to know what everything's ... called. This state of affairs is compounded by those radio stations that don't bother to employ presenters and tout their 'non-stop music' as something positive when, in fact, it's anything but - the same two hundred songs churned out randomly,