Author: Leigh Banks

This piece has been written by Remedy John, a singing minister from Nigeria. It hasn’t really been edited but has been left in the writer’s own words with all the foibles, complications, text-speak idiosyncrasies and excitements. It’s the story of how he scoured the world for lyrics, performers and snippets of sounds for a song… Continue reading SONG OF THE NATIONS… A REMEDY FOR RACISM

Bob Spiers was an old-fashioned kind of man. Big, bluff and tough. He had to be, he lived on the streets of Garstang in Lancashire as a beat bobbie. But at one time people felt that Bob had a ‘spiritual awareness’ about one of the worst series of crimes in the North of England, the… Continue reading Lest we forget … a farewell to Bob Spiers, the cop who found Leslie Anne Downey’s body

Film editor Bob Mori sent the Preservation Society his thoughts on the impending strike in LA by the backroom workers who say they are short-changed by movie moguls and entertainment gurus. The industry is estimated to be worth more than 700 billion dollars, yet many who work in it earn a barely living wage. More… Continue reading Hollywood lives … how celluloid gods still deny comfort to those who work ‘backstage’

It is almost 60 years to the day that Edward Evans was bludgeoned to death with an axe by Ian Brady in a tiny nondescript council house in Hattersley. Edward had just turned 17 in 1965 and like so many way back then, he portrayed himself as a man about town, a sharp-dressed youth with… Continue reading We must never forget Edward Evans, the Brady and Hindley victim whose murder finally brought the perverted killers to justice

Hollywood is being described as in turmoil as up to 200,000 backstage workers voted to go on strike. And celluloid captains of the industry of dreams and riches beyond belief fear that the curtains will drop on multi-million productions. More than 98 per cent of union members have voted for the strike, according to the… Continue reading Celluloid dream about to grind to halt as Hollywood workers pull plug on ‘nightmare’ pay and conditions

Today, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls I changed the starboard left-erly blowy-up round thing at the front of my stately Bentley (by any other name a Chrysler 300C with a posh grill). I did it in the elegantly leaf-blown driveway to my stately home (well, actually it was in a lay-by on the rainy… Continue reading Why do all the silly bloggers and citizens want to be journalists when they say they hate us?

Some say that God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform … And so he does too. We’ve been hit hard by the ‘mysterious’ fuel shortage in the UK, we rented a bijou little cottage which glistens by a reservoir in the midnight moon and lies under the flight path of hundreds of… Continue reading Diesel do! Thank God for a fuel stop with Ultimate – and a Greggs!

Bob Dylan’s  occasionally ending tour is back on the road this autumn. Bob has had his longest break since 1981 when he was ‘parked’ for more than three years. The Rough and Rowdy Ways tour,  kicks off at Milwaukee’s Riverside Theatre on November 2nd — Dylan’s first public performance since 2019. Then he’ll travel through the… Continue reading Autumn leaves… Bob’s occasionally ending tour set to hit the world again

AN OPEN LETTER TO ANDREW TOBAS Recently, I sent this email to the big Chief Exec of GAB, a debatable enclave of freedom of speech based somewhere down the murky highway trod by the internet’s moronic murderers of any kind of freedom at all. If we had a satnav to the Wild West of cyberland,… Continue reading BIG CHIEF GAB-A-LOT TALKS ‘BIGLY’ ABOUT FREEDOM – BUT I CAN’T TRACK HIM DOWN FOR A CHAT ABOUT THE FUNDEMENTALS

Well, I didn’t know I had it in me, but last night I finally came out. Yes, ladies and gentlemen and everybody else who is reading this … I love Abba! Abba are up their with my favourite bands. My Top Ten goes like this: At No I …. drum rollllllll… his Royal Bobness takes… Continue reading I’ve just been called a Big Softie! Oh no – Abba heart, I’m an old rocker (and less of the old actually!)