Author: Leigh Banks

Michael McClure, beat poet and eventual friend to Bob Dylan, said this a while ago in an interview with Rolling Stone: “In December 1965, when we had been bombing Vietnam for eight months, Dylan read Poisoned Wheat, a long anti-war poem of mine. “Later I gave the copy to a girl who wanted Bob’s fingerprints.”… Continue reading THE MAN WHO ONCE SAID DYLAN ‘WAS A DANGER TO POETRY’ HAS REACHED HEAVEN’S DOOR, AGED 87

Another light at the end of the corona tunnel in our ‘small-town’ city at the foot of the High Tatras Mountains in Slovakia… And this time it is a bar-room light! Yes our spiritual home is back in business… Nebra, a kooky, little bizarrely decorated bar near the city station which mixes dramatic cocktails capable… Continue reading The sun also shines… we’re off to our favourite bar for a beer in the garden

Welcome back to Postcard from AirTV International where journalist and broadcaster Leigh G Banks and telly guru Rodney Hearth take a look at corona virus myths and facts – they ask why do the banks get richer as we get poorer in a crisis – and is the world really on the edge of financial… Continue reading Air-ing their views – Leigh and Rodney ask ‘is the world really about to collapse?’

UK households and businesses are hoarding according to the banking industry. The Bank of England reporting record increases in the amount of money held in bank accounts. In fact, Sterling money holdings by private sector companies and households rose by £57.4bn in March, the biggest increase on record. In the previous six months it went… Continue reading This virus has no dominion as bankers turn dead eyes away from the bereaved…

Should Bob have donated a 68,000 pound set of wrought iron gates to Mozambique – the place he definitely used to love? The US State Department approved the four-feet high iron artwork gift to the ailing African country some time ago and paid $84,375 for them. The sculpture was paid for with federal funding and… Continue reading Gates of bleating flashing … wonder if Dylan still likes to be in Mozambique?

I have known PJ Proby – the great pretender to the crown of pop –  on and off for more than two decades. I have spent time with him, interviewed him, set up shows for him on the BBC and almost ended up as his driver from gig to gig… However, although I enjoyed his… Continue reading A chat with PJ Nobody, 81 – yes, he was once as big as Elvis but he was also Savile’s friend … and a man acting like complete idiot too often

Tom Hanks has sent a letter along with a Corona-brand typewriter to an Australian boy who says he is bullied because of his name. Yep, Corona. The name Corona means Crown and is of Spanish origin – but is also a Latin word for circle of light. Sadly, Corona De Vries, aged eight, has realised people in… Continue reading Tom Hank gives right type of gift to boy, 8, bullied over his name Corona

Banks generally are looking at opportunities as we lock down our lives. And nothing wrong with that under the world economic system we have at the moment. In fact, all four of the big London-listed lenders have suffered steep share price falls since the virus crisis began, so like us, all they need is a… Continue reading Tourettes and tantrums as more lock-down victims find themselves one question away from banking oblivion

Writers beware – THERE ARE COPYRIGHT PIRATES ABOUT! And we are fighting one right now – somebody who has stolen the work of at least a dozen people. Ask yourself, what kind of man lives in a room in an old Stalag of his own dishonest and disgusting making .,. he sweats and he lies… Continue reading COPYRIGHT CAR CRASH WITH LIARS WHO WANT TO STEAL YOUR CREATIVE LIFE

What’s your opinion? Should we go back to the way things were – read inside – also listen to Hold On (Change is Coming) by Sounds of Blackness … Well done Captain Tom – you deserved the Spitfire flypast for your 100th birthday. And you deserve the Number One hit with Michael Ball – and… Continue reading As Captain Tom becomes Number One, the other heroes in the world wait to get back to normal – but is normal what we really need?