A piano plays in an empty room. Shimmering shadows. Then a mass, a mess, of drums and harmonica. Delta blues from the Home Counties. Southern comforts. This is the opening to "Well Well", the new album from Nigel Thomas who sings and writes songs; like Gerry Cinnamon or Ed Sheeran but, you know, good. The [...]
"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "Respect", "Baby I Love You", ""Chain of Fools", ""Since You've Been Gone", "Think", "Share Your Love With Me", "Call Me", "Don't Play That Song", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Spanish Harlem" and "Day Dreaming" had all been number one singles for Aretha Franklin between 1967 and [...]
"You who wear me, will know me." Peter Strickland isn't really a film director. At least not if the extent of your cinema going is "Fast and the Furious 36" or "Star Wars - The Phantom Jedi Menace". That sounds a bit snooty? Good. What Strickland does is use cinema to create art. High art. [...]
Here in dear old Blighty, home of the brash, outrageous and “free”, we have a radio show where people of note (scientists, poets, politicians, celebrities, singers etc etc etc) discuss their lives, loves and achievements with the host while, at the same time, selecting 8 pieces of music that they would take with them [...]
I had just turned twenty-one. I was a student. I was convinced that what had started as a couple of great albums by blur and Suede was now a full blown cultural phenomenom on a par with the Mods in the sixties. I was entering the second year of my degree course at the “University” [...]
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The creative worth of Morrissey since 2004's "You Are The Quarry" has been, increasingly, worth less...and less...and less. Only the most ardent of his disciples could argue that point and argue it they will, hailing every whimper or belch that he releases as further [...]
Like Brandon Flowers I was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or, as it is better known, the Mormon church. It's worth pointing out that this didn't involve polygamy. The Church brought the curtain down on that a long time ago. That means that neither one of [...]
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