24 Apr 2021
LIFE OF SERVICE: Fr Ian Grieves at St Osmund’s Catholic Church in Gainford
Father Ian Grieves is retiring as parish priest for Gainford and Barnard Castle. He will be remembered for switching from Anglicanism to Catholicism and taking nearly all of his congregation with him. Editor Trevor Brookes spoke to man who was once described by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as a “quite exceptional priest”.
WHEN he was training to be a priest, Father Ian Grieves was told he needed to see “real life” before the church would let him go any further.
Its something that still rankles today. Being brought up in Trimdon Grange, he reckoned he had seen enough of life already.
Jennifer Lucy Allan
, March 9th, 2021 08:43
Jennifer Lucy Allan interviews the Sunderland-born viola player about where her music takes her, sharing a history with British Sea Power, and what pushed her to begin making solo music
Alison Cotton tintype portrait by Andy Martin
When people talk of music ‘transporting’ them somewhere, more often than not they are describing a vague escape from an immediate (probably domestic) reality – an experience of music that for a few sacred moments makes them forget about the washing up. What is not usually intended is the feeling one has actually travelled back through time to a specific location, but for Sunderland-born musician Alison Cotton, this is exactly what she means.