Music
The Canyon Star
I recently heard from my old pal Jamie, one of those old pals of mine I haven’t heard from for too long. Jamie’s an accomplished singer/songwriter – by my reckoning a damn fine one, too – and a veteran of the London music scene. It’s good to hear, then, that he’s recording again – under [...]
Bob Dylan is Number 1
From BBC News: Bob Dylan has topped the UK album chart for the seventh time in his career, nearly 40 years since his last number one. Wow – I mean, as a Dylan fan of many years standing I’m delighted to hear that Mr Zimmerman still has it in him to knock out a chart-topper. [...]
Yesterday was Record Store Day
I popped into Birmingham music emporium Swordfish Records yesterday in order to fulfil my obligatory Record Store Day obligation. As this blog is committed to transparency and a full disclosure of contributions to the music industry, I’ll fess up now and admit that I purchased Television’s People by the rather marvellous Brum-based endorphin-pumpers Misty’s Big [...]
This is Record Store Day
Which, in case you don’t know, “is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music.” I’ll endeavour to pop into my favourite local indie music store, Swordfish Records, at some point later today and I might even try to observe a minute’s [...]
The Destroyers
As yesterday was St Pat’s day I spent the evening visiting my Mum. While I was there I caught up with my brother, Rob, who asked me about the fabulously riotous Brum-based band The Destroyers. For Rob’s benefit – and anyone else who might be interested – here’s their video for Out of Babel: The [...]
The Stand Down Margaret
The funniest thing I read today appeared in an article about 80s Anti-Thatch pop in this month’s Uncut: It’s 1980, and The Beat are scheduled to play “Stand Down Margaret” on the early evening kids’ TV show, Cheggers Plays Pop. “We had to get the song on by stealth,” laughs lead singer Dave Wakeling. “Our [...]
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, Didn’t
Here’s another pesky but obligatory year-end list for me to get out of my system: it’s my Top 5 list of the gigs I really would have liked to have gone to in 2008 but for one reason or another didn’t. I’m sure I can come up with something snappier than that. 5. Public Enemy, [...]
My Top 5 Gigs of 2009
Why Top 5? Why not a Top 10? As a lapsed Discordian I was going to knock out a rather elaborate, mind-bending explanation based on the ‘Law of Fives’ (which, according to Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus! Trilogy, claims that everything in the universe can be connected to the number five if you [...]
11-11-11: Handsworth
(By way of a recap: on 11th November 2008 Clare & I embarked on a public transport-based Kerouacian Carousel around the City of Birmingham. I’m writing up the journey in a series of urban travelblogs that are insterspersed with low humour and the occasional knob gag. Think Bill Bryson meets the late Reg Varney.) As [...]
You have been watching
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is regarded by many as one of the greatest rock albums ever. I’m not here to defend, deny or debunk its status. I’m very fond of it, many people I know are very fond of it, but there’s one thing about it that has always niggled me ever [...]
Alastair Campbell plays the songs of Jacques Brel
I often find that discovering that somebody shares one of your passions can efficiently neutralise any misgivings or antipathy you previously held towards them. So it was this morning, as I listened to Alastair Campbell’s programme on Radio 4 about the legendary chanson singer Jacques Brel: Former Labour strategist Alastair Campbell reveals his passion for [...]
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