Life's about experiences. These are mine.
There is a joke, attributed to John Lennon, that when asked if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world he replied that he wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles. Something similar could be applied to Mike Rutherford, the guitarist from Genesis. That accolade would probably go to first Steve Hackett and …
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So a real bumper crop this month, although somewhat skewed by De La Soul releasing their back catalogue for free for 24 hours. So this months additions are: King King – Take My Hand Samantha Crain – Kid Face (SoS) LSO – Bruckner – Symphony No 9 (SoS) De La Soul – AOI: Bionix De La Soul …
So I attended another gig at the superb Arlington Arts Centre on Thursday. It is a small venue, maybe only 300-400 people but they seem to manage to get some really good acts there. This time it was the excellent blues band King King who had first come to my attention at Weyfest last year – I recommend …
A couple of years ago a mate of mine started to buy a new CD a week and tweeted it’s title and a (very) small review. Despite the rest of the world having moved over to downloads Dirk has continued his weekly CD buying habit ever since. I find it fascinating that there is quite so …
So I have been looking at buying a album on Amazon. I have pretty much stopped buying CDs unless they are offering something that I cannot get from the download alone, such as it being signed. As you can see from the image right in this particular case it would be cheaper to buy the …
If you like classic Genesis, by which I mean Gabriel era, then about the only way you are going to be able hear their music played live with a member of the band these days is to go to see Steve Hackett. I’ve seen him play a couple of times before when he played just …
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Reading has the Reading festival. Leeds has the Leeds Festival (although to be fair that is just the Reading Festival on tour). Guildford has Guilfest and so it would be logical to assume that Weyfest is held in Weybridge. It’s not, it’s held in Tilford just outside of Farnham in Surrey and I have no …
At the beginning of the year Amazon introduced in the US a new feature called “AutoRip” which does pretty much what it says on the tin in that it automatically creates an MP3 version of any CDs or vinyl that you bought though Amazon. These tracks are then available for you to play through either Amazon’s cloud player …
It’s been a long time coming but we finally got to see Elvis Costello last night. We had initially been scheduled to see him play May 2012 but the gig was cancelled due to Costello losing his voice. When it was finally rescheduled it was for 13 months later! Given that the last time I …