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Introduction
Welcome to Klockworks, a collection of my writings as a journalist and author. Confessions of an Eco-Shopper is a companion blog to my book, Confessions of an Eco-Shopper: the true story of one woman's mission to go green, published by Hodder. The purpose of the blog is to keep you abreast of any updates to the content of the book, as well as allowing me to comment on current environmental stories. If you'd like to get in touch with me about the book or the blog, email me at kate@ecosmartshopper.co.uk The Press Column contains my weekly columns for The Press newspaper in York from 2006-2007. Dangerous Love contains interviews about my true-life/crime memoir published by Ebury in 2005. Reviews is a collection of various theatre and music reviews that I've done for The Press and BBC North Yorkshire More information about Dangerous Love and my other published works can be found on the Klockworks Website. Thanks for visiting. Enjoy! |
Wednesday, July 18
Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Grand Opera House Sunday 15 July
by
Kate Lock
on Wed 18 Jul 2007 23:26 BST
irst published in The Press, July 2007
As a rookie brass band player, this reviewer has had the message hammered home on numerous occasions, ‘You’ve got to be good to play quietly’. Listening to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band go from the furious-and-glorious raise-the-roof volume of Shostakovich’s Festive Overture to a sound so soft it was almost a whisper in Arnold’s Scottish Dances, it was clear just how very good Grimethorpe Colliery Band is. more »
Saturday, June 30
PS
by
Kate Lock
on Sat 30 Jun 2007 11:00 BST
I'm about to dash off to take the daughter to her drama class but I wanted to add a coda to the column in the Press today. more »
And it's a green goodbye from me
by
Kate Lock
on Sat 30 Jun 2007 10:38 BST
It's been two years, near as dammit, since I started this column and I've chalked up over a hundred of 'em in that time, so this seems an appropriate time to come to a close. I've got a book to write and a deadline pressing and the one's not getting done and the other's looming ever nearer. more »
Saturday, June 23
Sun shone on the soggy York Proms
by
Kate Lock
on Sat 23 Jun 2007 10:33 BST
I wrote in this column last Saturday that it takes more than a bit of rain - or even a lot of rain - to dampen British spirit. I had not expected, when the plug was pulled on York Proms an hour and a half before the event was due to start because the park was in danger of flooding, to see this demonstrated quite so defiantly. more »
Saturday, June 16
Sunday, June 10
I'm trying to get to the bottom of this Mystery
by
Kate Lock
on Sun 10 Jun 2007 12:52 BST
'So what exactly is the mystery in the Mystery Plays?' the husband asked recently. 'It's hardly a whodunit, is it?' I told him he was a Philistine, to which he replied that actually, he was more of a Sherlock Holmes fan, although he's still got a fondness for Morse. more »
Sunday, June 3
At last, a green wave sweeps through shops
by
Kate Lock
on Sun 03 Jun 2007 12:49 BST
Isn't is great the way shops are falling over themselves to go green these days? There's Marks and Spencer's Plan A ('Because there is no Plan B'); New Look is selling organic jeans and Tesco is out to flog 10 million low-energy light bulbs within the year. My work here is done. Well, almost. more »
Sunday, May 27
Finding my inner Babs was just murder
by
Kate Lock
on Sun 27 May 2007 00:46 BST
I have the greatest respect for actors. Their ability to take on a completely different persona fills me with awe, especially since I can't act for toffee. I was invited to a cast party for an amateur production last weekend and I was very relieved no-one suggested charades. That, however, was before I discovered my Inner Babs. more »
Sunday, May 20
How to hug when you've just put the knife in
by
Kate Lock
on Sun 20 May 2007 00:42 BST
There are three things I don't get about The Apprentice (Wednesdays, BBC1), even if it is the must-see show on television at the moment. One: how do the candidates on the losing team have the gall to hug the person who's just been fired after they've stuck the knife into them in the boardroom? (I suspect they're checking to make sure it went in deep enough.) more »
Tuesday, May 15
The York Realist
by
Kate Lock
on Tue 15 May 2007 23:11 BST
It’s been 11 years since the York Mystery Plays were staged at the Theatre Royal and now they’re back, albeit as noises off, in The York Realist.
It’s the 1963 Mystery Plays, rather than the 1996 ones, that form the background to this not-so-everyday story of country folk, more »
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