The Police Inspector Blog is the most widely read police blog in the UK. With a readership nearing one million since 2006, the blog publishes a diverse range of diary entries from a UK police Inspector (US police Lieutenant) from a rural force in England. The blog has received widespread and positive reviews in the UK national media.
The author, who remains anonymous to protect himself from action by the police internal affairs department, has raised awareness and supported a number of causes related to injured police officers, poor sentencing decisions after murder convictions and the slide into political correctness which has prevented British police officers from being effective crime fighters.
Using the nom de plume Inspector Gadget, the author hosts a wide ranging discussion network via the comments section on the Blog for UK police officers and others to raise issues and question government interference in the criminal justice system.
The independent publishers Monday Books have the publishing rights to any printed material in the UK and Europe, with the first book due in 2008. With the departure of PC David Copperfield to Canada and the effective end of the widely read Coppers Blog, the Police Inspector Blog now maintains it's position as the number one internet based social networking and political comment Blog about law and order in the UK.
The author, who remains anonymous to protect himself from action by the police internal affairs department, has raised awareness and supported a number of causes related to injured police officers, poor sentencing decisions after murder convictions and the slide into political correctness which has prevented British police officers from being effective crime fighters.
Using the nom de plume Inspector Gadget, the author hosts a wide ranging discussion network via the comments section on the Blog for UK police officers and others to raise issues and question government interference in the criminal justice system.
The independent publishers Monday Books have the publishing rights to any printed material in the UK and Europe, with the first book due in 2008. With the departure of PC David Copperfield to Canada and the effective end of the widely read Coppers Blog, the Police Inspector Blog now maintains it's position as the number one internet based social networking and political comment Blog about law and order in the UK.
Samantha Bell (b. 1990) is a young, Yorkshire based playwright, poet and novelist.
Her first play, which was co-written with John May, debuted at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough on the 21 December 2007. The play was highly commended by Sir Alan Ayckbourn being described as a "gothic", "psychological thriller, "Agatha Christie like in twists" and commented that "the two authors have clearly a good ear for vocal pattern and establishment of a character through speech."
Samantha has had many poems published and has written articles for Wingbeat, a teenagers magazine produced by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and has written many short and long stories.
Samantha attends a Grammar school in Yorkshire, and is currently doing her A Levels. Aside from drama, her hobbies include music (both listening to and performing) and literature.
Samantha is now said to be back working with John May on their second play, which is scheduled for release and performance later this year. They are also currently working on an adaptation of Sir Alan Ayckbourn's play Absurd Person Singular, after discovering his work thanks to his gratuitous reception of theirs.
Her first play, which was co-written with John May, debuted at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough on the 21 December 2007. The play was highly commended by Sir Alan Ayckbourn being described as a "gothic", "psychological thriller, "Agatha Christie like in twists" and commented that "the two authors have clearly a good ear for vocal pattern and establishment of a character through speech."
Samantha has had many poems published and has written articles for Wingbeat, a teenagers magazine produced by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and has written many short and long stories.
Samantha attends a Grammar school in Yorkshire, and is currently doing her A Levels. Aside from drama, her hobbies include music (both listening to and performing) and literature.
Samantha is now said to be back working with John May on their second play, which is scheduled for release and performance later this year. They are also currently working on an adaptation of Sir Alan Ayckbourn's play Absurd Person Singular, after discovering his work thanks to his gratuitous reception of theirs.
The Asian Music Circuit (often abbreviated to AMC) is a London based touring company for music from Asia. It also runs workshops and summer schools which are open to the public. They accommodate all types of Asian Music and now have a Centre that includes a musuem and workshop rooms, complete with touch screens and sound chamber. The new centre is up and running but the touch screens still need to be booted up.
Viram Jasani founded the charity company in 1991 and has been going for 17 years now. The organisation now produces summer schools and workshops for people in Britain and are hoping to organise exchange projects to Asian countries including India, China and Japan. Their website is www.amc.org.uk , not to be confused with the cancer research company.
The AMC has had many awards in the past and is responsible for the large number of Asian artists that visit Southbank for concerts. The AMC also deals in artists that need to come to England to perform and have never been outside their own country.
This charity company gives services to the public and lots of workshops are available in the summer and to schools during term time. They also hold some workshops on the weekends and hold practice sessions in the coming months to the summer schools. The summer schools hold at least 10 workshops that include Guqin, Pipa, Erhu and many more Asian Instruments. The musuem in the Asian Music Centre holds most of the instruments that you can try during the summer schools. The best thing about these summer schools is that you don't have to know anything about Asia, you can come to our workshops and ask our artists about anything to do with their instruments to better your knowledge about these things.
The Asian Music Centre is an extension of the Asian Music Centre that was opened in 2007 and is the place where most of the workshops during the year take place. The Centre holds a musuem of asia and the instruments that are native to all countries in asia. In the museum there is East Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and Central Asia. There is also a sound chamber near the centre of the musuem that reacts to your hand movements and creates music and melodies taken from the projection that is on all sides of the chamber. The projection ranges from Chinese to Indian and will screen different sounds for you to play with in the sound chamber.
The Asian Music Circuit is well known for bringing the best artists from Asia. The artists will come and perform in England and sometimes go on tour throughout England. A new tour that is coming to the UK is The Dying Song. The Dying Song is about the form of Thumri and how the form is slowly dying out and is being renewed by Bireshwar Gautum. He is a leading figure in Thumri and Kathak and is helping the *Asian Music Circuit in promoting their company. Bireshwar Gautum plays the leading figure in the Dying Song and mimes the very words he sings.
Viram Jasani founded the charity company in 1991 and has been going for 17 years now. The organisation now produces summer schools and workshops for people in Britain and are hoping to organise exchange projects to Asian countries including India, China and Japan. Their website is www.amc.org.uk , not to be confused with the cancer research company.
The AMC has had many awards in the past and is responsible for the large number of Asian artists that visit Southbank for concerts. The AMC also deals in artists that need to come to England to perform and have never been outside their own country.
This charity company gives services to the public and lots of workshops are available in the summer and to schools during term time. They also hold some workshops on the weekends and hold practice sessions in the coming months to the summer schools. The summer schools hold at least 10 workshops that include Guqin, Pipa, Erhu and many more Asian Instruments. The musuem in the Asian Music Centre holds most of the instruments that you can try during the summer schools. The best thing about these summer schools is that you don't have to know anything about Asia, you can come to our workshops and ask our artists about anything to do with their instruments to better your knowledge about these things.
The Asian Music Centre is an extension of the Asian Music Centre that was opened in 2007 and is the place where most of the workshops during the year take place. The Centre holds a musuem of asia and the instruments that are native to all countries in asia. In the museum there is East Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and Central Asia. There is also a sound chamber near the centre of the musuem that reacts to your hand movements and creates music and melodies taken from the projection that is on all sides of the chamber. The projection ranges from Chinese to Indian and will screen different sounds for you to play with in the sound chamber.
The Asian Music Circuit is well known for bringing the best artists from Asia. The artists will come and perform in England and sometimes go on tour throughout England. A new tour that is coming to the UK is The Dying Song. The Dying Song is about the form of Thumri and how the form is slowly dying out and is being renewed by Bireshwar Gautum. He is a leading figure in Thumri and Kathak and is helping the *Asian Music Circuit in promoting their company. Bireshwar Gautum plays the leading figure in the Dying Song and mimes the very words he sings.
Beyond Aston is the third solo album from Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward. There is no release date for it. Bill has been working on this album for a long time; it originally had its genesis before his previous solo album was released in 1997.
In December of 2007, Bill stated in a Christmas letter to his fans that he hopes to have the album completed in early 2008.
Track listing
While the final track listing is unknown, Bill did release a listing of seventeen titles for Beyond Aston on his website on . That list appears below. In a later update, he said that there would be ten songs on the album, so which of these actually makes the cut (or even retain these titles) is unknown at this time.
#"Crow"
#"The Dark Half Hour"
#"Straws"
#"God and the Law"
#"Hi Fi Life"
#"Ashes"
#"Angel in the Rain"
#"Beyond Aston"
#"Monmouth Nights"
#"First Day Back"
#"Everybody Loves Me"
#"Powder on the Moon"
#"Soldiers"
#"Abandoned Gift"
#"Somebody’s Heart"
#"Elephant Man"
#"Woodshop"
On June 13 2006, Bill stated in an update on his website that two of the track names are "Where You Are Is Not Forever" and "Poppies". Whether these are new tracks not on the list of titles Bill released in November of 2002, or just renamed versions of some of those tracks is unknown.
Musicians
*Bill Ward - Vocals, lyrics & musical arrangements, drums on "Poppies"
*Keith Lynch - Guitars
*Paul Ill - Bass guitar
*Ronnie Ciago - Drums
Straws
One of the songs from Beyond Aston is called Straws. For a time in 2002, Bill made an mp3 of the song available for free on his website, but it was later withdrawn. Straws was then printed in a limited quantity of CD's. Only 2,200 copies of the "Straws" CD-single were produced, with the first 1,200 going to governmental heads of state throughout the world, humanitarian organizations, peace support groups, media outlets, musicians and actors. The remaining 1,000 copies were put on sale through Bill's Website, and the monies raised from sales of the CD single benefitted five charities that Bill chose. These charities are:
#The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
#Inner City Music Program - "Bands Not Gangs", Los Angeles
#The Alice Faith Mittelman Foundation
#Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF)
#The National Veterans Foundation
Bill had this to say about the song Straws and its meaning on his website: I wrote "Straws" in September 2002 when I became most fearful of retaliatory response in the U.S.A. if war with Iraq became a reality. I hope this war does not trigger a terrorist response and allow the unimaginable to happen. "Straws" is about my unimaginable. Peace to all men, women, and children.
The Dark Half Hour
On March 9 2004, Bill released another song from Beyond Aston; that being The Dark Half Hour. With the release, Bill had this to say about the song: It's about sexuality and sexual shame in part. This version is a close master mix, and therefore, will be different than the final master that will end up on the album.
Unlike the Straws download, this is still available as a legal free download from Bill's site.
Trivia
*Despite being a drummer himself, Bill's did not drum on his own previous solo work. Beyond Aston changes that; Bill does drum on one track, "Poppies".
*Early on, this album's name was "Remembering"; it was later changed to Beyond Aston.
*The title Beyond Aston refers to the place where Bill grew up; the district of Aston in Birmingham, England.
In December of 2007, Bill stated in a Christmas letter to his fans that he hopes to have the album completed in early 2008.
Track listing
While the final track listing is unknown, Bill did release a listing of seventeen titles for Beyond Aston on his website on . That list appears below. In a later update, he said that there would be ten songs on the album, so which of these actually makes the cut (or even retain these titles) is unknown at this time.
#"Crow"
#"The Dark Half Hour"
#"Straws"
#"God and the Law"
#"Hi Fi Life"
#"Ashes"
#"Angel in the Rain"
#"Beyond Aston"
#"Monmouth Nights"
#"First Day Back"
#"Everybody Loves Me"
#"Powder on the Moon"
#"Soldiers"
#"Abandoned Gift"
#"Somebody’s Heart"
#"Elephant Man"
#"Woodshop"
On June 13 2006, Bill stated in an update on his website that two of the track names are "Where You Are Is Not Forever" and "Poppies". Whether these are new tracks not on the list of titles Bill released in November of 2002, or just renamed versions of some of those tracks is unknown.
Musicians
*Bill Ward - Vocals, lyrics & musical arrangements, drums on "Poppies"
*Keith Lynch - Guitars
*Paul Ill - Bass guitar
*Ronnie Ciago - Drums
Straws
One of the songs from Beyond Aston is called Straws. For a time in 2002, Bill made an mp3 of the song available for free on his website, but it was later withdrawn. Straws was then printed in a limited quantity of CD's. Only 2,200 copies of the "Straws" CD-single were produced, with the first 1,200 going to governmental heads of state throughout the world, humanitarian organizations, peace support groups, media outlets, musicians and actors. The remaining 1,000 copies were put on sale through Bill's Website, and the monies raised from sales of the CD single benefitted five charities that Bill chose. These charities are:
#The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
#Inner City Music Program - "Bands Not Gangs", Los Angeles
#The Alice Faith Mittelman Foundation
#Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF)
#The National Veterans Foundation
Bill had this to say about the song Straws and its meaning on his website: I wrote "Straws" in September 2002 when I became most fearful of retaliatory response in the U.S.A. if war with Iraq became a reality. I hope this war does not trigger a terrorist response and allow the unimaginable to happen. "Straws" is about my unimaginable. Peace to all men, women, and children.
The Dark Half Hour
On March 9 2004, Bill released another song from Beyond Aston; that being The Dark Half Hour. With the release, Bill had this to say about the song: It's about sexuality and sexual shame in part. This version is a close master mix, and therefore, will be different than the final master that will end up on the album.
Unlike the Straws download, this is still available as a legal free download from Bill's site.
Trivia
*Despite being a drummer himself, Bill's did not drum on his own previous solo work. Beyond Aston changes that; Bill does drum on one track, "Poppies".
*Early on, this album's name was "Remembering"; it was later changed to Beyond Aston.
*The title Beyond Aston refers to the place where Bill grew up; the district of Aston in Birmingham, England.