Another Day, Another Interview
Jim talks to Arroe Collins about the new album, Direction Of The Heart. Click to read more and listen to the interview…
Podcast-aholic – My Current List Of Regular Podcasts
I love a podcast and recently I have been going through quite a heavy spell of podcast listening. There are some long regulars like The Archers – I know! Had you told me when I first moved to the UK and learned about The Archers that I’d start listening to it several years later and…
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Minds Music Monday – Planet Zero
I was really looking forward to being TOTALLY absorbed into the new album. I had high hopes, you know. All I was hearing from it, then the first couple of plays. Then waiting for the promotional dust to settle and just….fall deeply in love. And then a spanner was thrown into the works. The CD…
The Blues Over Brown
Sarah Brown has a new single out from her superb ‘….Sings Mahalia Jackson’ album. The track is called Didn’t It Rain and it is my favourite track off the album. Next Monday I fly down to London to see Sarah play the iconic jazz venue in Soho, Ronnie Scott’s. The gig is a sellout and…
Bridges Burned?
I think it probably has happened. I had a MASSIVE wobble and, well….it’s probably all too late and…. Life moves on, as a (mostly) wise man once said. A person who, I believe, has made plenty of mistakes also. But I get that I have become massively wearing and have always invested too much in…
Take Me Out (For Free!) – Review: Franz Ferdinand (+ Medicine Cabinet and Los Bitchos) – OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 10/11/2022
So, I was working on my assignment for uni on Tuesday, conscious that time was ticking to get the essay written so I could hand the assignment in on time by Thursday afternoon’s deadline. I kept on lapsing in and out of the work, just to help to ultimately keep engaged with it and get…
Simple Minds Feature In Electronic Sound Magazine
Simple Minds are the main feature in the latest issue of ES. Click to read more…
TAKE ME OUT!
Oh, something to be happy about! Yay! Still struggling to get my essay together for uni – just refining, editing, wanting to present it well, etc. Other things aside of that too still niggling away too. Never mind! The assignment IS the priority for now. It’s due midday Thursday and I have more incentive than…
The Lynn Lester Interview (Working Class To World Class)
Firstly, can I just say that title implies that the working class have to strive to be world class. Like…it just compounds the percieved “working class” stigma to me. But, hey, that’s probably just me. I digress. I guess it could have had a worse title like, say, “Working Class Made Good” or something. I…
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Minds Music Monday – Spaceface
Because this is my happy song. I need my happy song today. (Click to play related music video)