Jeremy Miles
Writer and photographer
Welcome to my blog. I am a writer, occasional photographer and busy arts and theatre publicist. I have many years experience as a journalist and know the newspaper and magazine business inside out. I have written for countless regional, national and international newspapers, magazines as well as online publications and have a reputation for delivering fast, accurate and interesting copy.
I am an accomplished arts and travel writer and often work with my wife the photographer Hattie Miles. Our work has taken us around the world with published features from India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Greece, Israel, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia, America coast to coast and, of course, the UK. This blog explore many of my fields of activity, offering comment, opinion and analysis. With pieces about music, theatre, art, travel and social history, I am a seasoned reviewer with an academic and journalistic interest in the visual and performing arts.
Dancing Ledge 
Have you discovered the St Margaret’s School website? Do explore http://www.smogs.org.uk which I created about 18 years ago. We still hold annual reunions, occasionally getting 100 Old Girls together. Alas COVID-19 has stopped that….. for now ….
Jeremy, thanks for the superb article on the blue plaque unveiling, particularly since it’s so well-researched. I’ve added a link to it on my music site and shared it on the Hampshire and Dorset Musicians Past and Present page on Facebook. I hope that’s ok with you. Cheers, Al Kirtley
Hi Al,
Thanks for the kind words. So pleased you like the piece. I enjoyed writing it and I’m only too happy for you to share with anyone who might be interested. Having only arrived in Bournemouth 28 years ago I missed the days of the Downstairs Club and Le Disque A Go! Go! but understand totally what a special place it must have been in its heyday. My own memories of those days are of the almost identical scene on the south east coast in my hometown of Folkestone where Tofts Club fulfilled precisely the same function as The Downstairs Club in Bournemouth. Where acts like John Mayall, Graham Bond, Alexis Korner, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, Geno Washington and even (as a special favour to club owner Harold Toft) Derek and the Dominoes would satisfying our need for ‘real’ music. I’m sure Zoot must have played there too, though I can only recall seeing him at the larger corporation run venue the Leas Cliff Hall. Happy days!
My name is Jeremy miles too. I’m from Arkansas and I’m 37.