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22 Oct 2021

Night-Visiting Songs

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Acoustic explorations Virginia’s explorations into the acoustic and emotional resonance within the landscape of the River Thames has provided the inspiration for a new musical project. “I intended to seek creative expressions for this resonance and to create a body … Read More

Manchester Metropolitan University, Night-Visiting Songs, River Thames
16 Jan 2019

2018 In Review

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Exploring a year of writing and performance 2018 proved to be a very busy year for Virginia Astley. It was a year which saw the publication of her book The English River, as well as a select number of performances … Read More

A Bao A Qu, From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Futility, Hope In A Darkened Heart, The English River
21 Oct 2018

Virginia Astley at Rough Trade

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Tales From The English River… With the publication of The English River, Virginia Astley has reached a milestone in a writing career that’s slowly evolved over recent years. It’s also a book that marks a personal journey that touches on … Read More

Rough Trade, The English River, Will Burns
15 Dec 2017

Autumn days in Hardy Country

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To mark the end of her residency at Hardy’s Cottage in October, literary website Writing Places asked writer-in-residence Virginia Astley to consider contemporary rural life in her essay. “It’s another damp autumn morning and dragging Henry Hoover round Hardy’s study … Read More

The National Trust, Thomas Hardy
23 Oct 2017

Virginia Astley on Apple Day at Hardy’s Cottage

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Virginia Astley has been writer-in-residence at Thomas Hardy’s Cottage in Dorchester throughout September and October. As the residency draws to a close, she shares her writer’s journal with Writing Places – a website created through a partnership between Literature Works … Read More

The National Trust, Thomas Hardy
29 Apr 2016

The Ravishing Beauties Peel Session

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On this day in 1982, BBC Radio 1’s John Peel Show broadcast a session recorded with The Ravishing Beauties. The Peel Sessions, as they became to be known, usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the … Read More

A Bao A Qu, Futility, John Peel, The Ravishing Beauties
25 Feb 2016

Saturday Live Transcript

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1983 was an eventful year for Virginia, a year that mixed critical and commercial success with business frustration. The release of one single,two albums,soundtrack composing,session appearances,live concerts as well as trying to extricate herself from a recording contract kept Virginia … Read More

Audrey Riley, From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Kathy Seabrook, Melt The Snow, Promise Nothing
25 Feb 2016

Virginia Astley Interview

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Can you tell us a little about what you’re currently working on? Well one thing I’m doing is listening to my father’s old music to put together a CD of instrumental music for EMI. So obviously it will have the … Read More

Edwin Astley, From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Hope In A Darkened Heart, Melt The Snow, Richard Jobson, Russell Webb, She Stood Up And Cried, The Woodlanders, Why-Fi
20 Feb 2016

The Ravishing Beauties

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“We always had a running joke that men took over when you work with them, but I’m certainly not trying to prove any great feminist point” (VA, NME 10-9-83) “My first group, The Ravishing Beauties, was formed to promote Virginia … Read More

Club Zoo, Kate St. John, Nicky Holland, Ravishing Beauties, Teardrop Explodes
2 May 2015

The A Bao A Qu Mystery

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In 1982, Virginia Astley released her first record, the mysteriously entitled A Bao A Qu. Critics and fans alike were equally baffled by this strange title. Even radio presenter John Walters likened the title to that of an anagram. It … Read More

A Bao A Qu, Kate St. John, The Ravishing Beauties

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