By Bhavna Ramballac / New Indian Express / Bangalore / Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Bangalore-based band, UNK: The Radha Thomas Ensemble will take centerstage this Friday at Phoenix Marketcity, and give the audience, a taste of Jazz. The band features Radha Thomas on vocals, Karan Joseph on piano, Mishko M’Ba on bass, Matt Littlewood […]
NAW- When did your literary journey begin? At what age did you discover that you wanted to write? I must have been six or seven when I first started to write poems. If I remember right, I moved on to writing songs. I didn’t start writing prose seriously till later, and I had no real […]
When Sidharth Bhatia contacted me about a year ago armed with a bunch of probing questions about my life as a rock’n’roll singer in the band Human Bondage some two centuries ago (well, I exaggerate, it was in the mid-70s), frankly, I was astonished. “I’m writing a book about rock’n’roll in India, back in the […]
Radha Thomas Today, I received notice from SoundCloud, a place where I’ve been posting my music, paying for the privilege too, that my album ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’ released in 2012 was in violation of copyright. First I gulped. Then I swallowed. Then I got mad. After all, I had paid Harry Fox, […]
By Jazz Hack Radha Thomas and Aman Mahajan will perform at the jazz festival in Bucharest, Romania Famous vocalist Radha Thomas and—Berklee-educated pianist, composer and arranger—Aman Mahajan will fly the Bangalore flag at the EUROPA Fest in Bucharest, Romania. The prestigious 2-week festival (08 May through 24 May this year) comprises performances by over […]
Excuse Bangalore artistes Radha Thomas and Aman Mahajan if they seem a little hurried while performing at Take 5 in Indiranagar on April 25. The duo that comprises musical outfit ‘2 For The Road’ will be rushing to The Piano Man on May 10, in Delhi next, and then boarding a flight to Romania. They will be […]
Yesterday I met Jimi Hendrix. For real. And he turned out to be very different from the Jimi I thought I knew. Considering how close we’d been. Hell, the first thing I ever learnt to play on my gittar (left-handed) was the bass line to Hey Joe. And it wasn’t till years later that […]
Has the fear of incarceration put the kybosh on the Indian man’s libido? Something’s very wrong. And it all began a few weeks ago, when a hard blow struck the psyche of the Indian man, causing a drastic, dramatic change in his behaviour. All of a sudden, he stopped acting the way the Indian […]
November 24, 2013 Swati Daftuar, The Hindu, Chennai, Metro Plus Writer and musician Radha Thomas on authoring a trilogy, juggling different creative pursuits and being part of The Hindu Lit for Life Radha Thomas seems to have done it all, or at least a lot. After writing a column on the sexes, putting together her […]
At first it was the emergency session, held by a parliament of owls outside my window in the garden last night. Woo, woo they argued, each one louder than the next. Who knew owls had so much to say? This went on for about an hour, as I tried the pillow over the head, the ear […]
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