Sandra Blemster

Nov 21, 2024 | mag-north.com | Sandra Blemster

When you think of Liverpool and Merseyside, what comes to mind? The Beatles, The Cavern Club, Stephen Graham, Jimmy McGovern? Liverpool and Merseyside’s culture is so entrenched in our brains with writers such as Carla Lane, who wrote the comedies The Liver Birds, Bread, and Butterflies, focusing on strong female characters. Then there is a host of actors including David Morrisey, Alison Steadman, and Jodie Comer. More obviously, there is the huge legacy The Beatles left behind.

Jan 30, 2024 | xsnoize.com | Sandra Blemster

Gruff Rhys releases his new album Sadness Sets Me Free on Rough Trade Records. Amazingly, this is the 25th album he has released in his 35-year career, individually and collaboratively, and as a member of various bands. His current band consists of Osian Gwynedd on piano, Huw V Williams on double bass, and former Flaming Lips drummer Kliph Scurlock on drums. It was recorded in La Frette Studios, a residential recording studio in a 19th-century mansion on the outskirts of Paris.

Sep 26, 2023 | readersdigest.co.uk | Sandra Blemster

HomeInspireSindy doll at 60: The 1960s accessory that rivalled BarbieLaunched in the 1960s as "the doll you love to dress", Sindy rivalled Barbie as queen of the dolls in the UK, where she became every girl's favourite fashion toyWith the release of the Barbie film this year, summer 2023 will definitely be remembered for the Barbie doll. But what about her British counterpart, Sindy, who happens to turn 60 this September? Sindy doll was a much-loved childhood favourite.

Jul 31, 2023 | xsnoize.com | Sandra Blemster

Nicky Wire, bassist and lyricist for Welsh band Manic Street Preachers, has released a solo album as a follow-up to his 2006 debut, I Killed the Zeitgeist. Intimism is 12 songs released on Bandcamp, produced by Wire and Loz Williams, and mixed by Dave Eringa. He elaborates:“This record is a collage pieced together over the last decade. It’s as me as me can be – a distillation of my purest indie fantasies, a place where all those broken lists of regret have found themselves realigned….

Apr 13, 2023 | readersdigest.co.uk | Sandra Blemster

How the real-life Alice who inspired Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland visited the Welsh town of Llandudno frequently  Everyone knows the story of Alice in Wonderland and how she fell down the rabbit hole. But how much do you know of Lewis Carroll, the man who met the real-life Alice and was inspired to write the famous tale? What was its connection to the picturesque Welsh town of Llandudno? Curiouser and curiouser!  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote the book under his pen name of Lewis Carroll.