Music

  What – more wonderful tunes just a week after the last lot of luscious ear candy?! Why yes I say (well type really but there’s music to listen to; let’s not get hung up on semantics shall we?). So many tunes are tickling my ear worm that there was Continue Reading

  “Crazy Bird” by Wild Child     The dwarves of Snow White’s acquaintance totally had the right idea. Whistle while you work! And if you’re going to whistle at work (ignore the stares from your cubicle-dwelling co-workers; trust me it’s worth it), then make sure you have “Crazy Bird” Continue Reading

  There is something almost magical about seeing a music artist you have loved and admired for thirty years in concert for the first time. Suddenly the transcendentally powerful voice that was only heard through stereo speakers, and the locks of wild hair that only ever made an appearance in Continue Reading

  It’s been almost four months since the last of the pyrotechnics fizzled to half-hearted sparks, and the spandex was packed away for another year so it seems like the perfect time to find out what’s happening in Eurovision’s bright and shiny glitter-spangled world. After all, it’s a scant nine Continue Reading

  I have been in love with everything Scandinavian for as long as I can remember. It wasn’t an intentional love affair – although there is so much to love about that part of Europe that you could be forgiven for deliberately seeking out all things Nordic – but rather Continue Reading

  Sooooooo … You’ve run another marathon-like race with all the rats, you’re so full of caffeine form trying trying to stay awake that you feel like a giant walking expresso, and need to just sit down, smell the flowers and take some time to realign your chakras, fix your Continue Reading

  “Love is sunshine and puppies, flowers and nipple clamps” (Rubix Von Füchenhürtz aka P!NK’s concert host Jimmy Slonina) It’s a rare thing to turn up at a concert of one of your favourite music artists and feel like you really matter to the performer on stage. (Beyond, of course, Continue Reading

  She has been uncharacteristically quite of late – a combination of lull between albums and time out for major hip surgery – with her only major appearance the singing of the US national anthem at a New York pride rally on 28 June this year, but all that is Continue Reading