Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Although it has been running for four years this is the first time that I have gone to the Are You Listening? festival (AYL) in Reading. AYL is a one day music event that showcases (mainly) local music in bars and event spaces around the town (so no mud and getting wet) in aid of …
Last weekend it was Record Store Day and for the second time I set off early to get to my local store and pick up some limited vinyl. Having already enquired earlier in the week I was pretty certain that what I wanted would be available long after the Saturday but queueing up before the …
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I always laugh when I see on an ad for a film that proudly states “From the producer that brought you xxxx”. From what I can see this is suggesting that I should go and see the film based on the person that managed to raise the money rather than someone that has any artistic …
Last year I documented all the music I added to my collection and finished by highlighting my album of the year. This year I didn’t record what I added but I did want to highlight my musical year. Looking at the stats on Subsonic I can see I have added 2,100 tracks which equates to …
During a recent tidy up I found my old wooden box of 45 singles, regrettably I got rid of my albums years ago, although I am slowly rectifying that. I’m hugely proud of the box itself as it is the only decent thing I ever made in any of my craft lessons at secondary school. …
A quick look at my last.fm profile will tell you that I am pretty fond of a bit of Genesis. While I don’t mind the Phil Collins era (I’m a fan of Duke for example) it’s the Peter Gabriel era that really floats my boat. There have been numerous suggestions over the years that the …
So this week Amazon released Prime Music in the UK which is a (very) restricted version of Spotify Premium. When I say restricted we are talking about 1 million tracks compared to Spotify’s 30 million catalogue. However, Prime Music is an additional perk of the Amazon Prime package which includes next day delivery, Prime Instant …
So a while back I went to my local record shop for Record Store Day and bought some hideously expensive vinyl on which I had nothing to play it. Wind forward a month or so and I got fed up of looking at the boxed set and wondering what it would be like to hear …
I have always been a big Doctor Who fan (I cannot decide if I am a Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker man) and we have done the exhibition in Cardiff and London. This weekend was something a little different – the Symphonic Spectacular at Wembley where a 100 piece orchestra (BBC National Orchestra of Wales …
Many years ago I had a large record collection but as time moved on I spent more time listening to CDs and then MP3s and we needed the space at home and so they went. Now vinyl is cool again and each year independent record shops in the UK take part in Record Store Day …