- 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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- Press Release: 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:
Peace At Last - Mark Read Album Review- Ex-boybander moves on – significantly.Give credit where it’s due, Mark Read has proved himself way beyond his days with boy band A1.
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Person To Person - Foreign Born Album Review- The new West Coast sound. Cool, very cool.LA band Foreign Born seem like an ambitious combo to me.
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The Last Laugh - Joker's Daughter Album Review- Gorgeous. Beguiling. Sweet. Quirky. Ethereal. Oh, and stunning.This is the first collaboration between desk-wizard Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse and multi-instrumentalist Greek-Cyp...
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Varshons - The Lemonheads Album Review- Covers albums are all the rage – here comes another.Bostonian rockers The Lemonheads, is a band with ever- changing line-ups.To date, there have been 18 members other than Dando ov...
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Secret Agent - Tony Allen Album Review- To understand the music on Tony Oladipo Allen’s CD Secret Agent we have to go back, briefly, to early 1960s Nigeria.Its main creator was multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti who experim...
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One Foot In The Grave (Deluxe Edition) - Beck Album Review- ‘One Foot In The Grave’ could have been ‘Two Feet In The Grave’ for Beck Hansen.Wedged between 1994’s Mellow Gold and his most impressive album (still) 1996’s Odelay, this low-fi a...
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Townes - Steve Earle Album Review- Glorious tribute to folk’s unsung hero.A couple of years ago Bruce Springsteen released a fantastic tribute to his hero, Pete Seeger. I get the distinct feeling that the Boss’s pro...
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Johnny Cash Remixed - Johnny Cash Album Review- Johnny Cash Remixed? There's a thought.
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The Alexandria Quartet - The Alexandria Quartet Album Review- Look out Snowpatrol, Coldplay and Kasabian…you’ve got big competition.There are four people (obviously) in Norway’s Alexandria Quartet – Martin Skalnes, Oystein Braut, Chris Holm a...
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Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot Album Review- Chickenfoot. New pandemic? Not likely – monster rock!Big names and big sound seems to be the agenda for Chickenfoot.
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Permanent - Jessica Clemmons Album Review- New soul-pop from Texas. Lacks Wow! factor.With one of the best pop-soul singers in the world right now struggling to make her commercial impact in the UK– Solange Knowles (Beyonce...
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Now and Then - Mary Hopkin Album Review- Fifty-nine year-old Welsh songbird releases more from her archive – her second this year, and the last, apparently.Before 30 hefty 2-inch tapes ruined Mary Hopkin’s bedroom ceiling...
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Water in the Ground - Catherine MacLellan Album Review- Rising Canadian star Catherine McLellan leaps forward with her country-folk-pop template. Good move.To my ears, some of MacLellan’s sound owes much to Scottish band Fairground Attr...
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Italia - Putumayo Album Review- Contemporary Italians reflect the globalisation of their country, through music.On this sublime collection, effectively a sequel to Italian Café from June 2005 which focussed on th...
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Bears - Sam Isaac Album Review- Pretty good start. Still some way to go.After a health scare (a disease caught from eating mackerel, normally exclusive to fish) Sam Isaac's finally self-released his debut album.
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Devil's Bridge - Christopher Rees Album Review- Cerebral Welshman's angst-ridden masterpiece.Once again, Devil's Bridge, recorded on the west coast of Wales, consolidates Christopher Rees as Britain's leading Americana exponent.
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Outside Love - Pink Mountaintops Album Review- Ten songs of love and hate. It’s a whopper.Pink Mountaintops is Stephen McBean’s new 18 members collective, though many of them already exist in his other Vancouver outfit Black Mo...
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Colonia - A Camp Album Review- Cool chamber pop from Swedish bombshell.It’s been some eight years since A Camp’s debut - long overdue Colonia is well worth the wait.
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Please And Thank You - The Broken Family Band Album Review- Five albums in, still no sign of TBFM making the big- time.Please And Thank You is not exactly a step forward for this Cambridge band. You could put this CD on once and forget abou...
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The Best Of - Clive Gregson Album Review- Eclectic singer-songwriter gets a ‘best of’, at long last.English folk-rocker Clive Gregson, 54, now based in Nashville, has been writing some fine tune for a long time now, so we ...
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Elephants Teeth Sinking Into Heart - Rachael Yamagata Album Review- These days, it’s a brave move doing a double album. Should have been just one.Singer-songwriter-pianist Yamagata is one of the few self-contained troubadours emanating out of the U...
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Live It Up - Alain Clark Album Review- Old school soul for the 21st century. Yummy.Dutchman Alain Clark is one of Warner Brothers’ main priorities for this year. It’s easy to see why. Handsome Alain has been making wave...
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Lady Luck - Maria Taylor Album Review- Classy pop from LA.For three years Maria Taylor fronted dream popsters Azure Ray with Orinda Fink until they called it a day in 2004. They released three albums – Azure Ray (2001) ...
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The Haunted Year - Spring: Man Bleeds in Glasgow/Greetings from Milford - Jackie Leven Album Review- ‘Glaswegian hard man’ gets commercial release of fan-site CDs.Released for the first time as commercial releases, these two live CDs catch Jackie Leven and chums at gigs in Water R...
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Salsa! - Putumayo Album Review- Putumayo’s slogan for this release is “Guaranteed To Make You Feel Good.” Too right.Having trawled the Latin world in search of the legends and rising stars of Salsa (sauce) Putuma...
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