“Love is a many-splendored thing” observed Frank Sinatra and while that is still as true as the day he first sang it, there’s also a lot about it that isn’t so wonderful. Well at least when it’s in its death throes anyway. Kinda gloomy to focus on you might Continue Reading
Music
Now this is music #61: Jasia, The Walking Sticks, Fran Seven, Baby Blood, Breakfast in Fur
A month into the new year and it’s time to chill a little and think about life. But to do that you need a great soundtrack right? OK sure spiritual gurus may disagree – but we all know they’re plugging into their iPods the moment you’re gone – but Continue Reading
“We are here to party”: ABBA reunite in Stockholm for first time since 2008 (post #2000)
While it might not have been the concert tour or new album that many ABBA fans, rather vainly it should be aided, hope for, the fact that all four members of the legendary Swedish fans were on stage together this week in Stockholm is a cause for celebration. According to Continue Reading
Future Zeitgeist: 3 pop culture resolutions for 2016
Another new year! Thousands of new movies to watch. Hundreds of TV shows to watch. Billions of books to read (wait, is that only me?). And an insane amount of music waiting to be downloaded and listened to over the next 366 days. So what to prioritise? What to Continue Reading
Re-play the music please maestro: The 10 songs I loved most in 2015
Music makes my world go round. Well, granted so do movies, TV shows and books, and big fat slices of caramel cheesecake, but music is the one thing that goes with me pretty everywhere, the soundtrack to my life if you will. It’s there with me when I am Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a good movie-watching, TV-bingeing, music-listening, book-reading night
It’s Christmas time again and that means, as you well know, that it’s some time for festive pop culture fun. Actually, pop culture fun is a year round things and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for sticking around and reading the many posts hat have Continue Reading
On 10th day of Christmas … I listened to “It’s a Holiday Soul Party” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
With a rousing 1 … 2 … 3 … 4 … 5 … 6 … 7 … 8!, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings live up to their self-titled mission to start a Holiday Soul Party. Kicking off with “8 Days of Hannukah” which brings a bluesy chilled vibe Continue Reading
Now this is music #60: MÖWE, Matoma & Frenship, Tirzah, Meg Mac, Nimmo
Who said Christmas had to be all about carols and musical odes to lovers far away? Not that I don’t love that kind of music – the house is reverberating to it over and over again at this the most wonderful time of the year – but you need Continue Reading
On the 6th day of Christmas … I listened to a Kylie Christmas by Kylie Minogue
Recording a Christmas album is not for the fainthearted. On paper it must seem like one of the easiest things to do in the world – gather together your favourite “golden oldies” Christmas carols and songs, write one or two new songs that will hopefully become classics in time Continue Reading
Now this is music #59: Paris Wells, Moguai ft. Cheat Codes, Transviolet, DWNTWN, Pell
I hear ya – it’s Friday and frankly you’ve only got enough energy left to dial up the local pizza place, twist the top off a bottle of wine and collapse on the couch to watch “Real Surviving Housewives of the Amazing Race” or something. But sometimes, and hear Continue Reading