News : 15th January 2002

A new section has been added to the Virginia Astley website: The Articles section is designed to feature comment, interviews and written pieces on Virginia’s career, her music, the people she’s worked with and much more. The first article is … Read More

News : 13th January 2002

On the 18th September 2001, CEDAR Audio announced its annual award winners (CEDAR Audio Awards recognise outstanding contributions in the field of audio restoration.). In the ‘Modern Recording’ (CD remastering from a modern recording post 1949) category,the winner was Jon … Read More

News : 8th January 2002

Happy New Year to all visitors to the Virginia Astley website! If you want to read the news pages for 2001, then please click on the link on the left hand side. The reissue of From Gardens Where We Feel … Read More

News : 24th December 2001

Seasons greetings and a happy Christmas to all visitors to the Virginia Astley Website 🙂 The documentary Astley’s Way provided an intriguing insight into the work of composer Edwin Astley. Presenter Jools Holland helped to put a face to the … Read More

News : 5th December 2001

Virginia was interviewed for Friday’s broadcast of Astley’s Way – the documentary on her father Edwin Astley’s career. Although we’ve no details about whether Virginia’s interview will be included in the final edit of the programme, there’s a good chance … Read More

News : 24th November 2001

The long rumoured Edwin Astley documentary finally gets a broadcast date. Trevor Ellis writes in to say that Astley’s Way is due for broadcast here in the UK next month. Trevor also adds details of what the programme will feature: … Read More

News : 15th November 2001

The Gallery section of the website has been updated with a new photo. This rare pic of Virginia has never previously been seen in the music press and dates from a 1983 session to promote the album From Gardens Where … Read More

News : 13th November 2001

A new website called www.radiovista.nethas just been launched designed, in the words of its founder Peter Krahn, to be “obsessively devoted to finding great new music and sharing it”. Peter has added some of Virginia’s music to the website which … Read More

News : 1st November 2001

More on Jocelyn Pook who has scored two French films: Comment Jai Tue Mon Pere and L’Emploi du Temps. More info on the former can be found here: http://www.tf1.fr/cinema/affiche/0,,801352,00.html. The soundtrack to the latter is released on 13th November in … Read More

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