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A KITCHEN PORTER'S TALE
I must have worked at least twelve Christmases as a kitchen porter. It was a busy, cheerful little bistro on North Hill, Colchester. I...
Dec 24, 2020


Christmas In Suburbia (Live In A Garden Shed)
One last Christmas treat for the year. Recorded for The Jangling Man: The Martin Newell Story. Which should be coming out at some point...
Dec 18, 2020


ECHOES DOWN THE YEARS -- about Charlie Watkins
ECHOES DOWN THE YEARS -- about Charlie Watkins In autumn of 1967, my dad in his final military years was posted to Chelsea Barracks. the...
Dec 12, 2020


Flowers of December & The Wife of '55.
The almost traditional Cleaners Christmas EP is now available from Bandcamp, Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music and just about anywhere else we...
Dec 4, 2020


It's…..THE DECEMBER 2020 NEWELL'S LETTER
Hello everybody and welcome to the new website. Plenty of things coming up, First of all though, I'd like to give hearty thanks to Paul...
Nov 24, 2020
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