Music hall legend, Billy Merson, recorded the William Hargreave's song "The Night I Appeared as Macbeth" in the early 1920's. It is, in very many ways, the earliest example of what would become, nearly seventy years later, Britpop. With more than a hint of nostalgia and a romantic vision of London life the song is [...]
The cover version...an opportunity for a band, or artist, to pay homage to an inspiration or an easy way to get radio plays as you plough your way, note for note, through a rendition of a song that people already like but, and this is where you can prove you really are a creative artist [...]
It all seems so long ago. It was a long time ago. We were younger then. We are older now. Look at you now. Don’t look at me. Don’t look back in anger. Look back with misty eyes and a quickening of the beat-beat-beat of your heart. Them was giddy days. 2019 has brought Britpop [...]
It all seems so long ago. It was a long time ago. We were younger then. We are older now. Look at you now. Don't look at me. Don't look back in anger. Look back with misty eyes and a quickening of the beat-beat-beat of your heart. Them was giddy days. 2019 has brought Britpop [...]
There was a lot of great new music in 2019. There was a lot of great new music from familiar faces in 2019. But I am kicking off my review of the best albums of the year with a compilation of old music, Steve Lamacq's "Lost Alternatives" was a treasure trove of old favourites, lost [...]
And now the end is near...or something. As 2019 draws to a close and we wait, with fevered anticipation, for the dawning of the twenties here are the top five gigs of the year as determined by little old me. Geneva, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh The return of Geneva has been a wonderful thing this [...]
"Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing." (Francis Picabia, 1879-1953) "Thought is made in the mouth" (Tristan Tzara, 1896-1963) Dadaism is, at the most basic level, a celebration of the absurd, a means by which an [...]
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