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Former head reaches songwriting finals
A former headteacher has traded classrooms for chord progressions and lessons for lyrics to strike gold in a songwriting contest.
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'Don't pay a visit when it's too late'
In the minutes after his doctor diagnosed him with prostate cancer Chorleywood resident Bob Arthy reacted in much the same way as the more than 650 British men who learn the same news every week, with a mixture of shock and fear.
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SaB-o-Tage
How Can You<p> Local poet and lyricit Sbah Uddin's song which he recorded to highlight the plight of twins Moshe and Zoe Phiri who face deportation to Zimbabwe.
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Big things ahead for Becky
Thirteen-year-old musician Becky Wixon has impressed judges in a national competition. She talks to <b>Nicola Orchard</b> PLUS listen to one of Becky's tracks
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Radio jingle
Listen to a jingle for Radio Verulam, as sung by members of The Singing Room at Cha Cha Cha Café, Watford
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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Listen to Hark! The Herald Angels Sing from the Hertfordshire Chorus’ latest CD, On Christmas Night
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13 Riots
<b>Never More Than Once</b> <br>13 Riots are playing the Watford Irish Club on Friday, May 11. The band formed after a chance conversation in Camden back in 2005. The rest, they say, is history. They are now practising, writing and recording songs.
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The New Shapes
<b>You've Got Me Running Round</b> <p> The New Shapes are calling it a day on their illustrious career next week. See their last ever gig at The Horns, Hempstead Road, Watford, with support from The Electric Cinema and Sarah Hamlin, on Tuesday, March 13. "It's definitely been worth it," Mark Roberts says. "I just think we wrote the best songs of anybody I have come across." For a full interview with The New Shapes, see this week's Watford Observer (March 9, 2007).
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