Category: Writing

Any articles by Nick Lauro that demonstrate his journalistic writing style

Interview With Jamie Little

The following interview took place during 2010 when Jamie Little was touring the UK with Texas Blues artist, Hamilton Loomis. It first appeared in digital format on the ADC Drums website. Mention Birmingham or the Midlands of England, and most people visualise an industrial landscape, dominated by concrete, motorways, pollution and silent factories that were… Continue reading Interview With Jamie Little

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Eric’s, 23/09/11

New Orleans Comes To Liverpool Let there be no illusion, my relationship with the active Liverpool music scene is one borne from its lack of ability to offer anything other than the same reconstituted, jingle-jangle-three-chord pop ditties that were its stock-in-trade of 40 years ago. There was a brief period in the late 1970’s when… Continue reading Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Eric’s, 23/09/11

Sabian Artisan Clinic, with Ralph Salmins & Karl Brazil – 06/09/11

Reality comes to Liverpool Four years have past since Liverpool saw its last drum event in the city, so there was no surprise seeing so many bodies packed up to the reclaimed bricks of Liverpool’s most famous musical dungeon. Attendees had been suitably warned in advance that this was not going to be a technique-fest,… Continue reading Sabian Artisan Clinic, with Ralph Salmins & Karl Brazil – 06/09/11