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Generous Westmorland Gazette readers donate saxophones to former street child
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[The Westmorland Gazette] - With no use for their instruments anymore, Roy Wilkinson, of Bentham, and Emma Lifshitz, of Kendal, have given their old saxophones to 13-year-old Viktor, who lives in a children's home funded by Kendal charity New Beginnings.
British Sea Power book named 'best of 2011'
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[The Westmorland Gazette] - Earlier this year, Roy Wilkinson published Do It For Your Mum, his account of life with brothers Neil and Scott, the former Kirkbie Kendal School pupils who formed the successful popular band, to wide critical acclaim. And now cultural webzine Caught
Music: I bet you think this book is about you...
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - But Mark Yarm's oral history of grunge, Everybody Loves Our Town (Faber, £16.99), collapses into moral chaos – a junkie malaise to which Roy Wilkinson's Do It For Your Mum (Rough Trade, £13.50), a heartwarming family saga by the former manager of the
Music books round-up 2011
www.standard.co.uk
[Evening Standard] - Roy Wilkinson's Do It for Your Mum (Rough Trade, £15) is a long way from this glitzy world. It's a low-key farce recording his time managing his younger brothers' cult indie rock band British Sea Power. The standout star of his tale, and of this year
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