Saxophonist Pete Burden, a familiar figure to jazz-lovers in Hastings and well beyond, died in hospital last week. Tony Frost, a regular in the audience, writes a short appreciation, provides the pictures and rounds up some of the tributes paid to Pete.
Got the decorations down yet? Still battling through the Christmas charcuterie (that’s DFL for any old cold meat that’s been lurking in the fridge since the binge-spend of mid-December, by the way)? Well, the fun needn’t stop on New Year’s Eve. There’s always loads going on in Hastings. So we sent Toby Sargent, our man with the five reduced-to-clear mince pies in his pocket and an unexplained stain on the back of his raincoat from Saturday’s Hogmanay party on the East Hill, to find out. Here’s his rundown of what’s hot in January.
It’s almost 10 years since Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou opened the Lantern Society in London, offering a microphone to all exponents of acoustic music. Now they are about to launch the Lantern Society in Hastings, as they explain.
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