With candidates for Hastings’ upcoming local elections on 2 May now revealed, HOT’s election commentator Chris Connelley casts his eye over the runners and riders. It’s the electorate’s first chance to give their views on Labour’s split and the appearance in town of Reform UK, not to mention the Greens’ leadership of the council, making these the most unpredictable local elections for years.
A guided tour to the emotional and mythological areas of submerged and rising lands with Gareth E. Rees on the release of his new book Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds published by Elliott & Thompson (2024). Jude Montague talks to the author.
Barnaby’s Lounge hosted favourite BBC pianist Neville Dickie for a journey through the first fifty years of jazz piano on Wednesday 10 April. Jude Montague was there.
Ross Clifford from the psych-noir band Column258 talks to Jude Montague Ross Clifford is the driving force of collective improvisation group Column 258. The band has two upcoming releases: a flexi disc with our label Property of the Lost, and an EP the group started back last year entitled ‘The Imaginary Album’.
There’s more to Remi Harris and the Hot Club Trio than reproducing the sounds of the original Hot Club, as Victoria Kingham found out when she spoke to Remi ahead of their gig at the Kino-Teatr on 20 April.
Founding member of HOT, Erica Smith, shares some HOT gossip about the surprisingly long-lived Hastings Online Times.
Our neighbourhoods are always changing. But what can we discover about these changes through listening to the sounds around us? We’re a very visually dominated society, so what happens if we focus on what we can hear? Erica Smith listens to Dr Bethan Prosser explain why it is important to listen to our neighbourhood.
The three Conservative Councillors on the East Sussex Pension Committee have all declined an invitation to take part in a public debate on divestment versus engagement, to held at Lewes Climate Hub this Saturday (13 April). Gabriel Carlyle from Divest East Sussex reports.
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