Turn up your amps! Strum those guitars. Make love to your synths like Duran Duran. Or just listen. Yes, listening will work too. Here are the five songs that have enthralled, seduced and made love like an over eager Chihuahua to my ears (hmm perhaps I should rethink that Continue Reading
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Now this is music #3: My favourite 5 songs of the week
It’s the end of the week yet again and given that all good TGIFs demand … nay mandate … a glass of wine, Jessica Fletcher head-back laughs with your friends and music, I have come to the party with 5 of the songs that have been making my musical Continue Reading
She’s back! ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog makes a welcome return to the musical spotlight
Nine years is almost an eternity in the ephemeral world of pop music, where popularity one day is often replaced by oblivion the next. And for anyone brave enough to stage their big comeback, fickle attention spans, and the sometimes ferocious world of today’s social media landscape await, examining, Continue Reading
Now this is music #2: My favourite 5 songs of the week
holychild – “Best Friends” “Best Friends” from band holychild – which incidentally Google keeps confusing with searches for Jesus and Catholic theology – kicks off with tinkling chimes and echoey floating vocals before moving things up a gear or 300 with pounding guitars and insistent beats overlaid Continue Reading
Now this is music #1 : my favourite tunes of the moment
In the spirit of all things new and exciting – inspired no doubt by New Year optimism run delightfully amuck – I have decided to re-name my “Sonic Bliss” series as “Now this is music” to better reflect the sense of excitement I experience every time I hear a Continue Reading
Scatter the glitter and dance: Just 100 days till the Eurovision 2013 final!
I swear it was but yesterday that I was knee deep – nay, waste-deep – in dushbara and dolma as the Eurovision extravaganza rolled into Baku Azerbaijan and after much singing, dancing and Russian babushka-adoring, crowned Loreen the musical queen of Europe with her hauntingly evocative get-and-and-dance-Kate-Bushesque song, “Euphoria”. Continue Reading
Music review: “A is for Alpine” – Alpine
I love accidental discoveries. The joy of finding something utterly unexpected when you’re digging around for something else entirely, or perhaps not even looking for anything at all, is what keeps life interesting and elevates unremarkable moments into the pantheon of memorable points in time. And so it was Continue Reading
Phoenix rise with new album “Bankrupt!”
One of my favourite bands in the entire world – it could be the universe but having failed to leave orbit, I can testify to the complete veracity of that claim; although as a child, I had no such reticence, and proclaimed everything to be “the best in the Continue Reading
Swede Jonas Oakland dazzles with new single “When the Music Dies”
We all know the feeling. You’re enjoying a luminously transcendant night out with someone special, enclosed in your own perfect bubble of a world and quite naturally enough, you don’t want it to come to an end. It’s an odd mixture of exhilaration and melancholy as you’re carried away Continue Reading
The 5 big pop culture moments I can’t wait for in 2013
It’s a tricky thing predicting the future. H G Wells and Isaac Asimov, and reputedly even Nostradamus and The Bible have all taken a crack at it to varying degrees of success – and who exactly predicted we’d have flying cars by now? Yup that totally didn’t happen – Continue Reading