Electronic Sound’s Album of the Year list – No. 28
Wow! Didn’t expect to see it on ANY ‘Album of the Year’ list in all honesty. And at 28 in a list of 50, that ain’t bad!
Wow! Didn’t expect to see it on ANY ‘Album of the Year’ list in all honesty. And at 28 in a list of 50, that ain’t bad!
Jim talks to Arroe Collins about the new album, Direction Of The Heart. Click to read more and listen to the interview…
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…
Simple Minds are the main feature in the latest issue of ES. Click to read more…
I am 825 words into a ROUGH draft 1200 essay that’s due on Thursday morning. I’m not feeling confident about this one. I’m not sure I have actually felt confident over any of them! (I’m trying to keep my score of 80 for my eTMA – ie: end-of-module Tutor Marked Assignment – in the forefront…
I’ll be honest here and say that these days I don’t really listen to too much music at all. I’m lucky if I play maybe two whole songs in a day. That’s just how it’s been for the past….18 months or so? I think the pandemic and lockdown had the completely reverse affect on me…
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The feeling I am getting from some ratings and reviews of the album is that it’s somewhat…”predictable”. That’s the overriding feeling I get from Wyndham Wallace’s assessment of it – esp. from his on Natural and Human Traffic. As with most f the fans (myself included) – he draws on Solstice Kiss as the true…
Read full post “Direction Of The Heart – Classic Pop Review” »
Photos from today. I wanted to point out to Jim my hat. Birdy bought it for me for Christmas and I haven’t really worn it. It’s too big for my head (I know!) and so I had the genius idea of putting a bunch of the badges Samantha sent me around it to try and…
The clock ticked past midnight. I was feeling quite tired. I forced myself to stay awake as I really didn’t want to miss the opportunity to give Direction Of The Heart a listen upon its release. I had waited long enough and through not being privy to being allowed to review it prior to release,…
Though probably not actually the expat Johnny-come-latelys among us) …. here’s the Mister chatting to Paul Cashmere of Noise11.com (video interview within post)
