Or, Twenty-odd years in the making. In the top drawer of my bedside cabinet, I keep a pen and some paper upon which to note down band names and song titles that come on the wireless in the evening or early morning, and which I know, if I like them, that I shan't remember them … Continue reading Top drawer stuff…
Some songs or pieces of music can transport me mentally (and I'm sure I'm not alone in this) to a fairly specific time and place and the other day one of those songs came on the wireless. More Than A Feeling by the American rock band Boston. The song which is from their debut Album … Continue reading Boston, chalk, other stuff, and I resign!
Time. A place. A time and a space. Music that's more than a feeling… I've not written much of late, the muses deserted me, well, almost. I kept thinking of things, I even wrote some prompts down but I did nothing about them. Ah well… Coming soon, Boston and chalk, a time and a space, … Continue reading Coming soon…
I have this memory of Basil Cuthbert. "Who?" I hear you ask. Who indeed… In 1950, Basil Cuthbert was appointed the musical director and organist at Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Basil attended Ashlyns School from 1950 until sometime in the mid 1970's (I think it was about then, I've mailed the school's archivist to try … Continue reading LISTEN TO SIR!
It's good when you hear a song and the lyrics speak to you, when the lyrics deliver a message that your heart, your soul, your sense of what is right and true can relate to. I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack is perhaps not the sort of song that you might think that … Continue reading Guilty pleasures, an occasional series. Lee Ann Womack: I hope you dance.
New Star Rising There's a new star rising in the west, and it's coming from the place, that we know must be the best. The nights are growing longer, feel the power getting stronger, put the people of the old ways to the test. Along the horizon, lines of dust. In the prisons, bars of … Continue reading New Star Rising
A few days ago… well, look, I won't lie to you, it was two weeks ago, Killer Queen by Queen was playing on the wireless, you know the one, "She keeps Moët et Chandon, in her pretty cabinet..." and as the song finished and faded into the next song on the radio station's playlist, in … Continue reading In the Lap of the Gods.
'Octoberon' is the seventh studio album by the band Barclay James Harvest, and it was released on October 1st, 1976. In support of the album the band toured in the UK during October and November of that year. On October 17th, 1976 they played at The Pavilion in Hemel Hempstead and I was there. Barclay … Continue reading October on, Octoberon.
Thanks to my good friend Kerry Thorpe, I grew into the school of Prog whilst still in Middle School, but my path was not as delineated by Prog as one might imagine. Me and Kerry at the National Railway Museum in York, September 2011 Dateline: Christmas 1978. Boney M were riding high in the charts, … Continue reading Ra-Ra-Rasputin…
Woke up, it was a grey Tuesday. Went downstairs, brewed the tea, watched a few minutes of the (frankly depressing) news on TV. Took the tea upstairs for the customary half hour lie-in, listening to the wireless. It was just coming up to the hour and Radio Caroline had gone into commercials mode, so I … Continue reading The Three Fates. Tuesday, 31st August 2021.
A Point of Views, A Polish Odyssey, and Other Stories. 