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Pete Allen Newsletter December 2023
Pete Allen Newsletter December 2023  Welcome to November’s newsletter. If you know of anyone who would like to receive the newsletter please ask them to drop me line at allenpete886@gmail.com I will add them to the list. We are still working hard on the marketing of the gig at the Pizza Express on the 4th December 2023 – details below…
Submission to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into the âEconomics of music streamingâ on behalf of the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group.
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A review of The Knowledge. Jazz by John Fordham
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Yorkshire Bitter
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Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to scrap the Brexit Select Committee – help make sure he does not.
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