This was music as communion, a gift given by an artist and returned through an audience's sensitive response. I offer these two stories to highlight the contrasting conceptions of what constitutes ...

There’s only one month to go until the White Rock Theatre opens its doors for its first ever comic con – Hastings Comic Con – for a spectacular comic extravaganza on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June ...

"Customer" implies a one-way relationship, with the artist cast as a seller; "patron" suggests an ongoing connection through which a fan ardently supports an artist for a time or over a whole career.