So many journalists seem to be musicians too. While attending yet another farewell party in Wapping last night, I reconnected with Rosie Brown, an ex-Sunday Times journalist but, more importantly, a great and original singer-songwriter with three albums to her credit, whom I've seen playing at Ronnie Scott's to a packed house (www.rosiebrown.com).
I was able to introduce Rosie to Sunday Times journalist Gary Cansell, also a great songwriter and leader of the amazing London band Hero & Leander (www.myspace.com/heroandleanderuk), now in the process of being signed to a German label to produce a series of albums.
Perhaps realising that in the greyness of the newspaper office, the colours of music are always waiting to be expressed, News International recently introduced a "music at work" scheme so that journalists could have lunchtime music lessons. But with the latest redundancies, some of these classes are much depleted. So the cutbacks have not been good for journalism — or for music.
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