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Banjo Bill's Folk Resource - Details of folk clubs, musician and music shops located in the region.
Calcutta - Darlington-based indie-guitar band. Photos, on-line reviews, contact details, booking forms and fans' comments.
Folk Archive Resource North East - Weblog and information on a project to digitise music manuscripts, songs, photos and sound recordings from collections across the region.
Pete Loud's Collection of Northumbrian and Tyneside Tunes - More than 300 traditional songs. Free downloads and song books to buy online.
Palm Quartet - Professional string quartet available for weddings, business events or special occasion. Details of repertoire, likely programmes and samples to download.
Generator - Arts development organisation supporting rock, pop, dance and indie musicians and other music businesses. Details of events, tours, newsletter and funders.
The Music Room - Online listing of classical concerts and organ recitals in the region. Also links to music resources.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Music It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett Music Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Music Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Music You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Music blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Music It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Music Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Music The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Music "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Music If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Music Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Music The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Music "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Music Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Music I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Music A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Music There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Music "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Music "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." 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