May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Two short pieces on David Bowie and Brian Eno in this month’s Classic Rock magazine. The Bowie piece talks to Ava Cherry (I never knew she was so young when they met!) and talks about their time together and Bowie’s musical influences of the period, producing the sound for Young Americans and legacy piece Golden…
What would normally be my favourite Minds track from Good News From The Next World is, for this week, being replaced with a namesake. And WHO BETTER to be sharing a song title with than the sainted David ? https://youtu.be/ioOp1rUvLNM
Artistic licence on the subtle change in the poem (by William Hughes Mearns, called Antigonish) – if it’s good enough for Bowie (having used a similar but altered verse for The Man Who Sold The World), it’s good enough for me. I love this picture…and I love spiral staircases. The symmetry of them. I had…
David Bowie is… was still on in Melbourne when I got out to Oz in 2015. I really thought about flying down there to see it for my birthday, but thought it would be highly unfair on the OH to go without her (seeing as we both missed out on going to the exhibition in…
I’m up to day 9 of the favourite albums thread theme on Facebook. And, it wasn’t until I had to make a choice on Day 7 did I suddenly think, OH SHIT – I’VE NOT EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT CHOOSING A BOWIE ONE! Am I going to be obvious and choose Low? Oh, but what about…
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I was listening into Billy Sloan’s show last night and he was talking about fellow music journo/music presenter David Hepworth and his belief that 1971 was the most creatively rich year in the history of rock music. But when I read this review of Roxy Music’s first two albums, it would seem – at least…
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Ding Ding – Round One: FIGHT! Lol. Some artistic fun with my two most favourite boys in the entire universe. Why I have never thought to combine them like this before I cannot fathom. The start of a few, methinks!
Today was the unveiling of the David Bowie statue/sculpture within Aylesbury town centre. In honour of it taking place, at least for one day, the town altered its name…albeit unofficially, to Aylesbowie. If I was to take a stab at crowd numbers, I’d say a couple thousand people were there. I did my bit to…
Working on something. Digitally, for now…