Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Last year I ran a series of monthly blog posts recording all the music that I had acquired over the previous month, you can see all those posts here, but I thought it would be good to do a summary. Here are the raw stats over the year 49 Artists 89 Albums 959 Songs 97 …
In keeping with many we used the time between Christmas and the New Year to blow off a few cobwebs and get out and about. After a few lapsed years we had renewed our National Trust membership this year and so decided to try and get to a different property each time we went out. …
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This is a personally motivated post and will without a doubt be biased for which I make no apologies but then what politically motivated speeches aren’t? Earlier this year my eldest son started looking for jobs in marketing as that would allow him to make use of his talent for writing. He quickly got three …
A bumper crop to end the year as my Christmas requests were fulfilled by Santa. This months additions are: Train – Bulletproof Picasso Simple Minds – Big Music The The – Mind Bomb Prides – Mixtape 2014 (single) Peter Gabriel – Back to Front EP (SoS) Alpine – A is for Alpine Tchaikovsky – Serenade …
So all this year I have been recording all the new music I have added to my collection (you can see all the monthly entries here) and I wanted to take a look back and see which of all the albums I’ve added I’ve enjoyed the most. The criteria for this award is quite simple …
30 years ago I went to what was then the Apollo theatre in Oxford to see Marillion. This was during the Fugazi tour when they were still in their ascendancy and Fish wasn’t writing songs like Lavender. I remember the beginning of the gig very clearly. The set had a raised stepped gantry in the …
I guess that there was a time when seeing a display such as this would have been the norm and wouldn’t have caused crowds to gather below it with cameras pointed skywards. However, this was exactly what happened at the weekend outside of Huttons in Knaresborough. There was an impressive display of animals, including a …
Perhaps this is going to become more of a recurring theme over the next few decades as robots become more prevalent and more human but here is the start of a list of songs about falling in love with a robot. The links should take you to Spotify if you have it. ELO – …
No purchases this month, all are from the Society of Sound membership This months additions are: Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique (SoS) Cara Dillon – A Thousand Hearts (SoS) Maria Callas – Maria Callas Remastered (SoS) Been one of those months where so far I haven’t had a chance to listen to these yet. Those above marked (SoS) are from …
I don’t want to come over all Farage but what’s wrong with our own traditions? Over the last few days my inbox has been inundated with messages wishing me a happy thanksgiving. Why? It’s not celebrated here in the UK. We have our own turkeyfest and it’s not for another month. If that wasn’t enough …