Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
Steve Hackett, Royal Albert Hall, October 2013
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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Weyfest 2013
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 …
AutoRip comes to the UK
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 …
Elvis Costello, Basingstoke Anvil
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 …
Case Histories Playlist
Case Histories is a TV series based on the books of Kate Atkinson about the private detective Jackson Brodie and set in the beautiful city of Edinburgh It is a marvellous series spoilt only by there not being enough of them. The second run that has just finished had only three 90 minute episodes. There’s a …
Simple Minds, Reading Hexagon
For some reason Reading doesn’t seem to attract many big name bands to play in the town, probably because it is so close and easy to get to London where everyone plays. So that Simple Minds played here was a big deal. It was odd turning out to the Hexagon last Thursday to find queues …
James Grant, The Forge, April 2013
For those that are still willing to listen I will happily tell them that my all time favorite album is Strange Kind of Love by Love & Money. I first saw them while at Uni in about 1986 and then not again until they reformed in 2011. However, over the years I have continued to buy what …
Paul Carrack, Basingstoke Anvil
Midnight Lion
I know that the title sounds like it should be about the next Apple operating System release but they are actually a band from Glasgow (there is definitely in why so much music comes from North of the border but that’s for another time). Have a listen to the below, reminds me a little of Snow Patrol which …