Owen Peters - Features


We Need To Talk About Cerys

We Need To Talk About Cerys - Part 3

In the third and fourth part of a four part story by Owen Peters, the first two parts which we published last month, 'We Need To Talk About Cerys' tells of a marriage gently disintegrating, and the effect on it of Cerys Matthews' radio show


We Need To Talk About Cerys

We Need To Talk About Cerys - Part 4

When he started running it wasn’t very far. So, Sunday was run, shower, listen to “her”, out of the house by midday and Sunday lunch here we come. With time “she” has, however, become a splintered co


We Need To Talk About Cerys

We Need To Talk About Cerys - Part 1

In a four part piece, two parts which we are publishing this month and two parts next month, Owen Peters offers a story/parable 'We Need To Talk About Cerys'. It tells of a marriage gently disintegrating as the years go by, and the impact on it of the music of Cerys Matthews


We Need To Talk About Cerys

We Need To Talk About Cerys - Part 2

Returning from the George and Dragon quiz night, Hubby was troubled, very troubled. Pete brought Hubby home. “No I won’t come in. You probably want to talk about this evening”, Pete says. “Oh by the w


Harry Chapin

Harry Chapin - Southport Theatre, Southport, 1977

In our 'Gig of a Lifetime' column recalls attending his first gig as a teenager, which was a show by the late American folk singer-songwriter Harry Chapin at the Southport Theatre in 1977


Natalie Merchant

Natalie Merchant - TEDTalks: Natalie Merchant—Singing Old Poems to Life

In his 'TV Music Memories' column, in which he looks at TV music programmes, Owen Peters watches an unusual concert film in which 10,000 Maniacs' front woman Natalie Merchant performs songs from her 2010 album 'Leave Your Sleep', in which she converted nursery rhymes to songs


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Singer-Songwriters at the BBC

In his 'TV Music Memories' column, in which he looks at music programmes on television, Owen Peters watches an archive programme of singer-songwriters from the 1960s and 1970s


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Killers 'Live from the Artists Den'

In the second in his new series 'TV Music Memories', in which he looks at television music programmes, Owen Peters watches a Killers concert film and interview, which was first shown in 2013 on the Sky Arts channel


James Taylor

James Taylor - TV Music Memories - MusiCares Person of the Year 2006

In his new column 'TV Music Memories', in which he will be examining music programmes on television, Owen Peters watches a tribute concert originally shown in 2006 for James Taylor