Concert for Billie 2012

> Iain Matthews performs ‘Woodstock’ with Egbert Derix at the sixth annual Concert For Billie. The concert is the annual prize-giving concert for Billie’s Violin Trust, a charity that donates musical instruments and tuition to the schoolchildren of Featherstone. The charity is in memory of Ian Clayton’s daughter, Billie Holiday Clayton. For more details on [...]

A Hug Anyone?

> A film of the title story in Dave Pescod’s book All Embracing and Other Stories. Dave Pescod on the filming: ‘It took a lot of takes and after an hour and nearly a hundred hugs or more everybody was a bit high and nobody wanted to go home. They just stood there grinning, wanting [...]

Hendrix in Ilkley

. In his book Bringing It All Back Home, Ian Clayton talks about the night Jimi Hendrix played Ilkley and how afterwards, a woman bumped into Hendrix in the queue for fish and chips at the original Harry Ramsden’s in Guisley. Last week at The Cat Club (a long playing record club, similar to a [...]

BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture

Paul Laverty talks about his approach to writing screenplays and the importance of team work in film making in his BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture 2011. On whether writing in Glasgow vernacular comes easiest: Yeah, by a mile. I suppose I’m very lucky too. Ken’s always really been supportive in helping with that. We’ve made [...]

Musicport Festival Book

Stories From A World Of Music. Less than a fortnight ago, Route assembled a team of writers to gather stories told at the Musicport World Music festival in Bridlington, a small port on the Yorkshire coast. Ian Clayton and Ian Daley have now assembled those stories into a book. The result is a quirky, moving [...]

Red Army Faction Blues Trailer

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