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RACHEL HARRINGTON AND ZAK BORDEN – SOUTHPORT ARTS CENTRE, 26TH JUNE 2009 www.rachelharrington.net http://www.zakborden.com Southport Arts centre is a beautiful venue, which puts on acoustic music thoughtfully and sympathetically. Both Rachel and her support act, Cara Luft, ex ‘Wailing Jenny’, commented on the excellent sound, and they were right. Cara played the opening set, accompanied on a range of instruments by the extremely versatile Hugh McMillan, from ‘Spirit of the West’. Hugh played… Continue

Diana Jones – Pacific Road Arts centre Birkenhead, June 21st 2009. How can a place name be quite so misleading ? Pacific Road surely makes you think of Ocean vistas, sea breezes, and warm white sand. When what you get is the Birkenhead water treatment plant, and a large sandstone barn like venue. Diana Jones obviously felt the same when she arrived, commenting with some understatement to the audience that ‘its kinda unprepossessing outside, isn’t it ?’. And it was disappointing also that the a… Continue