Simon Barrett

What is happening in Cleveland? Will Bengahzi ever go away?

Dave will be sitting down with me to talk about his new novel The Grace Bay Agreement. It is an interesting look at how the Drug Cartels might choose to launder money.

Avant Garde music aficionados across the globe are excited about the forthcoming second album by Dutch visual sound artist René van Commenée under the guise Mr Averell titled 'Gridlock'. Van Commenée is known in The Netherlands for his music (sound) art objects, theatrical performances and soundtracks for theatre, fireworks spectacles and film.

Badi Assad is one of the most innovative, passionate and talented artists of her generation and listed by Rolling Stone as a top guitarist from Brazil. She transcends traditional styles of her native Brazilian music with a mixture of pop, jazz and ethnic sounds from around the world. As a result, the singer, guitarist and songwriter is successfully forging an exhilarating genre of music that quite literally defies categorization. 'Between Love and Luck' is her first CD of all original material and sung in both English and Portuguese

The weekly look at crime and politics. Who knows where the program will go!

I will be sitting down with Sepand Samzadeh to talk about his second CD In Extremis. In the prog music world  Days Beteen Stations is making waves. So much so that they managed to get guest appearences from YES members Rick Wakeman and the alas now departed Peter Banks.

Our weekly round up of Crime and Politics in the news.

I will be sitting down with the co-authors, Denny Griffin and Vito Colucci to discuss their book Rogue Towm. It is a fabulous read about corruption and organized crime in the 1970's. This is undercover police work that will blow your mind!

This week the panel will be looking at what happenned last Monday in Boston. It opens many questions.

Prog music aficionados across the planet are beaming with excitement over the second CD release by keyboard master Tim Morse. 'Faithscience' is the long awaited follow-up to Tim's debut album 'Transformation', featuring a guest appearance by legendary David Ragsdale of Kansas. Tim spent two years working with different musicians (including Ragsdale), writing, arranging, and recording until he'd conjured up what he'd been hearing in his head. The music on 'Faithscience' is in keeping with the grand tradition of progressive rock, painting a large musical landscape to express universal lyrical ideas.