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
Just a reminder that the Edwin Astley documentary Astley’s Way will be shown on BBC2 tonight at 11.35pm.
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
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
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
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
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
Jocelyn Pook has been rumoured to be one of the British composers to take part in a special edition of the Proms next Summer to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee . The project is being put forward by Poet Laureate … Read More
The Gallery section of the website has been updated with a rare and early promo pic of Virginia. Meanwhile our website Survey is producing some not-so-surprising results with From Gardens Where We Feel Secure leading the way ;-).
The latest news from Rough Trade on the reissue of From Gardens Where We Feel Secure is that the album is due for release early next year. Anne Stephenson is a violin player who formed part of Virginia’s band during … Read More