- Elly Roberts
Profile
For 22 years I was a Visual & Performing Arts teacher in North Wales.
I currently operate as a freelance Music and Arts Journalsist for the following.
UK publications:
Wrexham Evening Leader ( North Wales Newspapers ) - Live theatre and music reviews
Wrexham Mail ( Trinity / Mirror Group ) - Live theatre and music reviews
Western Mail - live music and theatre reviews
Spanish mainland :
Costa Blanca News Live concert / CD and DVD reviews Please visit www.costablanca-news.com ( Music Reviews )
Focus Weekly ( Marbella ) as above
Websites:
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/music/reviews
Radio:
On request, I make guest contributions to :
BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Merseyside
Also, broadcaster with Wrexham FM
Press : Newspaper Society Member
Broadcasting Qualifications : OCN in Broadcasting ( To BBC standards )
Reviewing & Musical tastes :
As a music lover and journalist, I have eclectic tastes, therefor trying to give my readers as broad a church of styles as possible.
Recent Articles
- If You Don't Know Me By Now - Mick Hucknall Book signing in Manchester
- Over two hundred Simply Red fans lined up at the Home department in Selfridges Trafford Centre on Wednesday. Mick was back in his home town to sign copies of new book 'If You Don't Know Me By Now' (Ca...
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- Elly Roberts' Beatles commemorative plaques campaign
- Following the success of Beatles commemorative plaques in north Wales at Mold, Rhyl and Prestatyn, it is now confirmed that two further plaques will go ahead in south Wales - Cardiff and Abergavenny. ...
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- Lionel Richie UK tour support act: Louise Setara
- The support act for Lionel Richie's March and April tour dates has been abnnounced as Louise Setara. Still Waters her debut album recently received a 5 star review from our very own Elly Roberts (and ...
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- Tickets: Al Green UK tour 2007
- American soul sensation the Reverend Al Green, is over on these shores in June and July for a number of rare UK dates. The singer and songwriter who brought us such gems as Let's Stay Together, Tired...
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- Tickets: Damien Rice 2007 arena tour
- Brit-nominated Damien Rice - whose March tour has sold out - has added an arena tour to his 2007 schedule, with appearances in Newcastle, Birmingham, Glasgow, Nottingham, London, Plymouth, Bournemouth...
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Recent Reviews:
Gossip In The Grain - Ray Lamontagne Album Review- Shy guy returns – a bit happier?On the back of 2007’s stunning ‘Till The Sun Turns Black comes Ray Lamontagne’s third offering. On Gossip In The Grain you get the feeling old Ray’s...
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Rocking Horse - Kelli Ali Album Review- Hippydom looms large in 21st century.Much like Alison Goldfrapp’s departure from ‘disco’, former Sneaker Pimps songbird Kelli Ali has gone for the 60s retro sound.
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Evolver - John Legend Album Review- Grammy-winning Legend name drops with ‘mucho’ sheen, and blandness.When you’ve got guests like Estelle, Kanye West, Brandy and Andre 3000, you must have serious ambitions of going ...
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25 The Greatest Hits - Simply Red Album Review- Glorious band career comes to an end. Sadly.In an interview on the Stars tour in Hamburg Germany in the late 80s, Mick Hucknall said he wanted to be around a long time, like Frank ...
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24 Hours - Tom Jones Album Review- ‘Sex-bomb’ returns! Phew!It’s always been about the ‘tubes’ for me with Tom Jones.
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Soul - Seal Album Review- Dance hero trawls back catalogue. Not a good idea.Born in Nigeria, 45 year-old Seal Henry Olusegun Kwassi Olumide Adelo Samuel – (yes really) aka Seal, hasn’t exactly been having m...
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Little Wild One - Joan Osborne Album Review- Louiseville songbird goes all Soul? - with dream team.For her new album, Little Wild One, Joan Osborne has reunited with producer / writers trio Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman and Eric B...
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Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House - Neil Young Album Review- Early Neil. Just the start.In this case, the word Rap doesn’t refer to the current musical genre, thankfully. It’s used to describe Neil (Percival) Young’s inter-song banter and wa...
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Lat Night Remixed - Moby Album Review- The turn-tables are turned – on Moby.For once the remix maestro, who’s fiddled with songs by Michael Jackson, B52s, The Prodigy and Brian Eno to name but a few, gets the studio tre...
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Evolved - Martyn Joseph Album Review- Proud ‘valley boy’ shines…with Dragon tales aplenty, and more.Hands up! I’m a proud Welshman, so it’s tough being objective on this one. I’ll try.
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To America ft. Rufus Wainwright - Joan as Policewoman Single Review- Marriage made in heaven ! Musically.There’s only one problem with this single, or song, it’s not long enough, for me anyway.
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And Another Thing - The Bureau [UK] Album Review- Resurrection re-shuffle. Old timers’ re-unite..mhh.Yet another band on the comeback trail is The Bureau.
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Live: Hope at the Hideout - Mavis Staples Album Review- Soul ‘gota fria’ blasts Chicago.In her introduction, legendary 69 year-old Mavis Staples announces she’s at Chicago’s Hideout on 23 June 2008 to bring “some joy, some happiness, in...
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Devastator - Catfish Haven Album Review- Hairy bunch do a great job.Pigeonholing a band like Catfish Haven is nigh on impossible.
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Dark Undercoat - Emily Jane White Album Review- Ex-punk goes all soft and gentle. Don’t be fooled.With her fragile alto and acoustic guitar, San Franciscan Emily Jane White delivers Dark Undercoat, a collection of often sparse t...
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Emotional Glamore - Mari Wilson Album Review- ‘Voice of the Beehive’ returns….theme thing.Girls get your nail varnish out. Guys get your winkle –pickers on and forget sad Amy. Get stuck into the real thing The High Priestess o...
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London Undersound - Nitin Sawhney Album Review- Asian maestro’s thematic masterpiece.Some years ago, Nitin Sawhney performed in Glastonbury’s BBC tent. His music and name stuck, though I’d never followed him up, until now. Why i...
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Soul Star Wows Murcia Ole! - Al Green - 01/11/2008 - Live Review- Ending the mainland European leg of his tour before heading for the UK, veteran soul legend (Reverend) Albert Greene aka Al Green left behind his work at the Full Gospel Tabernacle...
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Putumayo Presents – Women Of Jazz - Putumayo Album Review- Liner notes in English, Spanish, and French.Jazz meets acoustic pop on this collection, featuring exceptional female vocalists from the USA and Canada, so says the CD cover.
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Orange Blossoms - JJ Grey and Mofro Album Review- On a visit to Bangor north Wales, I dropped visited world famous Cob Records for a mooch. Shifting through the CD racks, I heard snippets of the most incredible music playing on th...
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Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst Album Review- ‘Bright’ boy goes AWOL…over the border.Nebraskan born Conor Mullen Oberst, 28, is arguably the golden boy of Americana right now.
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In Ear Park - Department Of Eagles Album Review- First came the legendary Eagles … now it’s The Department Of Eagles – no comparisons drawn!Ear Park is a nickname for a park found in Los Angeles. It’s a place where founding membe...
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At Carnegie Hall - Buena Vista Social Club Presents... Album Review- It was never going to happen. Except that it did.Now this is what I call a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant album – THE best of 2008.
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CSYN Déjà Vu Live - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY) Album Review- Whipping up the crowd from the start with Crosby’s limp What Are Their Names, legendary CSN&Y roll back the years on this angry attack on US war politics.Déjà Vu was the first albu...
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Me And Armini - Emiliana Torrini Album Review- With things hotting up on Iceland’s financial scene, it’s good to know someone’s got a cool head.That’s 31 year-old Emiliana Torrini, the half Icelandic / Italian beauty who wrote ...
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