My son was 2 on Saturday and I decided to try my hand at organising a kids party, I have put on hundreds of events for adults over the years – how hard could it be? The party was a success (in my humble opinion) here are 4 things that I learnt from my experience:…
So its 20 years since Nirvana released Nevermind – that makes me feel REALLY old. 1991/2 were great years for music and coincided with the years when I was leaving school and going to sixth form – fresh in the world, revelling in the fact I didn’t have to go to school every day, didn’t have to wear a uniform and…
Monday 16th May 2016 was the 50th Anniversary of Pet Sounds, an album most people aged 35 upwards have in their music library. It has touched the lives of generations, it is critically rated by many of the great musicians and is often cited as being one of the best albums of all time (it’s actually Rolling…
A month or so ago I had the pleasure of bumping into Mr Francis Rossi of Status Quo and he was kind enough to help us promote Purley Festival by giving me an interview. I transcribed part of the interview for the Croydon Advertiser. You can listen to the podcast here.
A month ago we took a leap into the unknown (at least since our 20s). We decided to get rid of our Virgin box and relinquish ourselves from the millstone around our neck commonly know as ‘The Television’. Since its invention in the 1950’s, the television has become a staple in our daily lives, used…
We don’t usually celebrate Valentine’s Day but this year we decided to push the boat out and head up town, inevitably we ended up on a massive pub crawl but we found some real gems that I thought I should share. The first is The Angel in St Giles High St, spitting distance from Denmark…
Joan Armatrading, MBE and more importantly – according to her – (BA Hons) has won the coveted Ivor Novello Award, been nominated three times for a Grammy and twice for a Brit, written over 20 albums, has a plethora of gold, platinum and silver discs, been honoured by the Queen, sung for Nelson Mandela and…
You can pretty much guarantee that anyone in the UK who was in their teens or twenties in the early 90’s will have fond memories of dancing The Spin Doctors alt-pop chart toppers like Two Princes and Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong, you might even find they have a copy of multi-platinum album Pocket Full Of Kryptonite in…