With ABBA set to release (hopefully) their first new music in 39 years, with the announcement scheduled via a worldwide event commencing at 5.45pm UK time today (2.45am Australia – and yes, I’ll be up!), and the excitement for this longtime fan at fever pitch, it seems like a good Continue Reading
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Songs, songs and more songs #54: Magdalena Bay, Lump, Matilda Mann, Madison Olds, Sycco
Do not speak ill of pop my friends. There are those who look down upon it because of its derivation from the word “popular” with some erroneously assuming that if something is well liked by many, it mustn’t be any good. That’s rubbish, of course, because often something is popular Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #53: Yves Tumor, Jelani Aryeh, Ethan Fields, Maddie Ross, TIMMS + #Eurovision update!
Life comes in all kinds of weird emotional shapes and sizes. There’s the moments of exquisite sorrow and heartbreak which bend you so far out of shape you wonder if you’ll ever bounce back to who you were ever again. Then there, thankfully for who can take that much pretzeling Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #52: Priya Ragu, Poté, Mr Jukes + Barney Artist , Malia J, Circe
The days they are lockdowned. Well, not for everyone in the strict sense of the word but with COVID refusing to go away, many people continue to find their lives constrained by a pandemic that has robbed us of so much capacity to go and do and feel what we Continue Reading
Christmas is a Way of Life, My Dear by Chantal Kreviazuk #ChristmasInJuly
The world is rather neatly divided into two groups of people – those who hate Christmas with a passion and would rather be flayed alive by an invading army than sing “Joy to the World” or eat a fruit mince pie, and those who, like Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk (and Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #51: bülow, Em Beihold, Tones and I, John Errol, Baby Queen (feat. MAY-A)
As the city I live in hurtle into a third straight week of lockdown with more to come, it’s heartening that there is so much great music to keep spirits higher than they might otherwise be. Even better, this music comes with thoughtful, observant and playful lyrics that poetically reflect Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: Unhappy to see you again with The Addams Family 2
SNAPSHOTEveryone’s favorite spooky family is back in the animated comedy sequel, The Addams Family 2. In this all-new movie we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with “scream time.” To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #50: BSÍ, OhEm, Chemical Brothers, Kele, Lauren Aquilina + find out How to Eurovision with Ukraine …
Good times or bad, we all need music. Lots and lots of meaningful, thoughtful, heartfelt music, the kind that can make sense of the world around us and make even the worst of things not feel so quite impenetrable or hard to understand. These five artists have clearly thought hard Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #49: AUDREY NUNA, George Gretton, Cannons, Supertaste, Ben Phipps and CAPPA + #Eurovision Song Celebration 2021
It’s been busy. You need some peace and quiet BUT you also want to think … to feel … to ponder. Another one of life’s wondrous contradictions which lends itself to being soundtracked by people who get the human condition, who have lived it and who have the talent to Continue Reading
It’s time to Dance Alone with THE ROOP #Eurovision
Regardless of your thoughts about who won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – it was Italy by the way with “Zitti E Buoni” by Måneskin and yes, for the record, I actually quite liked its glam rock intensity though I was not so secretly hoping France or Switzerland might win Continue Reading