*THERE ARE GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS AHEAD … BORNE ON SINGING DRAGONS WINGS* What the world needs now is … love, sweet love? No citizens of Westeros, and further abroad, what the world needs RIGHT NOW is Game of Thrones the Musical … or at least one song from Continue Reading
Music
The road to Eurovision 2015: Grand final – Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my unvarnished, unguarded Continue Reading
The road to Eurovision 2015: Semi-final 2 (part 2) – Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my Continue Reading
The road to Eurovision 2015: Semi-final 2 (part 1) – Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my unvarnished, unguarded and Continue Reading
The road to Eurovision 2015: Semi-final 1 (part 2) – Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, The Netherlands
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my unvarnished, unguarded and Continue Reading
The road to Eurovision 2015: Semi-final 1 (part 1) – Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia. F.Y.R. Macedonia, Finland
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my unvarnished, unguarded and Continue Reading
Now this is music #49 – Planet Parade, Sekuoia, Salt Ashes, Waldo & Marsha, Inni-K
Life hey? It’s bland, it’s crazy colourful; it’s predictably the same, it’s a thousand kinds of different; a multitude of unceasing demands, an oasis of calm. However it plays out for you, and if you’re like most people no two days are ever truly the same, it’s good to Continue Reading
Back on record – the reasons behind vinyl’s unlikely comeback
The world recently celebrated Record Store Day (April 18), a big day in the life of often-beleaguered bricks-and-mortar record stores, and courtesy of Lee Barron, Northumbria University, Newcastle of The Conversation, we get insight into the ever-increasingly re-popularityof vinyl, and what its resurgence means for the future of the music industry Continue Reading
Now this is music 48: Heems, Katelyn Tarver, Peach Kelli Pop, Coleman Hell, Lena Fayre
Life is a real mixed bag isn’t it? Regardless of whether you approach it from a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty position, it rarely stays in one emotional place for too long. Hence we have great ups and downs, ins and outs, steps forward and lurches back, all of it providing Continue Reading
Now this is music #47: Melwonderland, Karl Kling, La+ch, Lyon and Lowe, Pink Feathers
Life hey? It comes with ups and downs, smiles and frowns (don’t worry I am not planning some sort of weird poetry thing here), peaks and valleys, thrillingly novel events and beige banal moments, and all manner of helter-skelter what-the-hell emotions in and around it all. Articulating how all of Continue Reading