Music

  I cannot imagine a life without music. It is quite literally the soundtrack to my day, adding lustre to the banality of commuting, providing melodic breaks to otherwise frantic work days and making parties, dinners and just time alone that much richer with atmosphere-enhancing tunes. And unlike many people Continue Reading

  So you’ve been busy, what with decking the halls, falalalalalalalala-ing and watching chestnuts roast on an open fire – not to mention all those sleigh rides and worrying about how cold it is outside – and things don’t look like slowing too soon. Behold the festive stress reducer – Continue Reading

  Christmas may be less than a month away, and festive music may be everywhere you go but that shouldn’t be your sole source of musical sustenance during December (and this is from someone who adores Christmas music). So try out these five amazingly-talented, clever artists who don’t just deliver Continue Reading

ABBA were THE defining music group of my youth, and you could well argue my entire life. Though I can’t remember which song I heard first, or when the mania took hold, ABBA dominated my music listening choices all through the 1970s, with the stranglehold – a very welcome stranglehold Continue Reading

  To its detractors pop music is vacuous, musical slop for the uncritical masses. But for those of us who know it well and see it at its best, it’s vibrant, inquiring, combining thoughtfulness and an irresistible way of getting its message across. That’s very much the case with these Continue Reading

  Like many ABBA fans, I occasionally find myself daydreaming of ABBA reforming, recording an album of new material, or at the very least pulling a double album of rarities out of their rumoured treasure vault of unreleased songs, and making all my fandom dreams come true. After all, due Continue Reading

  Love is a complicated beast. We love it , we hate it, we want it, we have it, we hope someone will love us, we despair when they don’t. All those freewheeling, cartwheeling possibilities, love’s inherent contradictions, joys, possibilities and soul-crushing disappointments provide a rich well from which a Continue Reading