Your host Mike Leahy.

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Show Number Two so many wrinkles now ironed out. We were really pleased to welcome Terry Clarke and Rob Warlow talking about really contrasting subjects and I could have continued with both as we only scratched the surface.

Rob Warlow of Small Business Success talked about his return from Africa and his new venture getting small businesses up and running despite the continuing recession.

Click here for his website, join his free newsletter and see what other goodies he has on offer. I've been reading his work for at least a couple of years and it's always refreshingly to the point.

He also has a group on LinkedIn where you can join in the various discussions so if you are belong to LinkedIn click here. If you are on LinkedIn then join today, it's a great place to make connections on a professional level.

The concerns about the parking in the Uplands is not just one for the local traders but for shoppers and residents too. It's a problem throughout Swansea and probably across the nation.

I can understand that residents want somewhere to park and the area is dense with families. The added problem is the high numbert of students living locally, many of whom (but not all) bring a car and who don't want to be involved in residents parking, they just want to pull up and get out of their car. I don't know the answer but I hope the interview with Neil Collier created some interest.

If you want to put another side or just make a comment let me know. This or another media platform like the Evening Post or the Wave or Swansea Bay Radio Stations will, I'm sure be happy to put your view across. Let's get it out in the open and not become a whispering campaign.

Zaal's Indian Restaurant in Sketty serves the finest food and has built up a keen reputation already in just two years as the place for good food. There are several other eating holes in the same block but they all have different menus.

Zaal have been refused a licence to sell food for consumtion off the premises and as most of this has been delivered away from the restaurant it means that in general there aren't people inside waiting or cars outside parked. I really can't see the problem.

If you have eaten at Zaal's then please support them now in this last minute pitch. Call in and sign the petition. Join the Facebook Group that will be posted up here later today. Let's try and save this great restaurant and the young entrepreneur owners. We need more young inspiring business people and should be encouraging them.

The Swansea Business Show is approaching and the Federation of Small Businesses are the main sponsor. If you are a member stands are subsidised for you and start at £99. If you aren't a member but run a small business then I'd really recommend joining.

Terry Clarke. Rock & Roll, Reading, fifties, Sinatra, Dylan Thomas. And such memories and experiences.

Terry spoke about his shortly to be released abstract album which imagines Dylan Thomas on those boozy American tours picking up the echoes of Brill Building pop, street-corner doowop and louche Miles Davis jazz lines is due out in the autumn. Walk Like A King, the latest disc from Llanelli-based singer songwriter

Terry Clarke, also homes in on the poets penchant for pinball and Mickey Spillane novels, and it spies on him shucking oysters in San Francisco harbour while reminiscing about Oystermouth and home. Some of the tracks were aired on The ITV Wales Show as part of their report on The Hay Festival, along with readings from Swansea poet Peter Thabit Jones, who helped initiate the record.

The 11th album in a career which has dipped into Texas swing, traditional rock and roll, ska
and narrative balladry, the singer has always been happy to pay homage to his heroes in
words and music, with Laura Nyro, Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnette and Maria
Callas all moving Terry to verse in the past.

And he says his interest in looking beyond the image and the hyperbole of stardom, as well as
his desire to wrest Dylan the man back from the airless halls of academia for a while, is what
will give the album its fizz. "I first paid tribute to Dylan Thomas in the sleeve notes to my album The Shelly River back in 1991, and he has always been an influence," he said.

"But, in my mind, he sits alongside Elvis and Johnnie Ray as much as he does alongside
Yeats and Ted Hughes. "And getting to Dylan the man was the most important part of this project — the man who loved pulp fiction and who would get his driver to pull up at the kerb if he saw the lights of a
pinball machine through a bar window when he was on his way to a posh reading in front of
these eminent academics in New York because he became addicted to the game."

We'll be talking to Terry again in a regular slot so if you have any questions make a comment on this page.

See terry's work at www.terryclarke.com and www.myspace.com/terryclarke

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