News about Mario Lanza

Time Out asked a number of musicians to select their most coveted British music venues and then combined their findings with insights from the publication's editorial staff, which culminated in the definitive list. These are venues that are authentic, that are committed to promoting properly good music and emerging artists, energetic audiences, and excellent sound quality,' Time Out says.

If you happen to have a better memoir this year than this one, you'll be very lucky. First and foremost: I wasn't aware of Don Paterson's career, and now shamelessly play me. He is one of the country's most coveted writers with a shelf-full of poetry awards (Whitbread, Costa, and two T.S. Eliot awards, the Queen's Gold Medal, and many more have been coveted by the Queen, as well as being a St Andrews Professor of Poetry. Oh, and he's also a well-known jazz musician. So why should we be interested in the first 20 years of a man most of us don't really know? It's the funniest, most realistic, touching, and touching account of a boyhood I have read: it's witty and dry, profane, and brutally funny in a laugh-out-loud way.