Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Carry On!
In January I'll be giving a talk titled 'Eric Rogers and the Legacy of Light Music' at King's Lynn Community Cinema Club. Expect plenty of clips from the Carry On movies!
Monday, 5 October 2015
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Bye Bye This Is My Jam
Even though I only stumbled upon it last year, I'm really sad to see the demise of This Is My Jam. Here's a Spotify playlist of ALL my jams in commiseration.
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Thursday, 17 September 2015
Mags This Month
I love to contribute to MediaMagazine when I can, I've been a friend and fan of the magazine since way back and it's a great resource for students. So I'm pleased to be in the current issue with a piece about streaming music services. I'm also in the new Shindig! Magazine, another publication that's close to my heart, for the big anniversary issue 50. I've got a bunch of reviews including Buried Treasure's great barn find The Vendetta Tapes by John Baker and the new one by Linda Hoyle. I've penned a slightly unusual Vinyl Art this month, and to cap it all off a couple of my album choices made it into the special anniversary issue top 50. Which ones you say? That would be telling!
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Led Zeppelin Book
Zep fans of a record-collecting bent need to snap it up pronto. From where? From here!
Monday, 17 August 2015
John Barleycorn Must Die 331/3
My proposal to Bloomsbury for a 331/3 book on Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die is one of 605 the publishing house received during the most recent Open Call. These usually result in about 15 books getting written, so in pure mathematical terms odds of 40/1 aren't bad. Other contributors have made some interesting album choices, but of course as the publishing house's representatives have pointed out on more than one occasion, its not the choice of album but the execution of the writing that's important.
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