Listening to BBC Radio 2 in my car the other day was like jumping in a time machine time to hang out in England in the eighties, Kate Bush was warbling like a demented pixie. I never understood the Bush infatuation, she reminds me of and over enthusiastic a level theatre studies student – I…
I knew it would happen like this, I knew that as soon as I opened up the box I could kiss goodbye to the 5 hours sleep a night that I have been averaging since our little girl was born… I knew I shouldn’t have opened the box! If you had asked me 4 months…
I committed the cardinal sin today and parked in a family bay at Sainsbury’s with no baby. Before all you parents start throwing used nappies at me, I have to add that I did it totally by accident, on auto-pilot, being so used to having a child with me – I actually forgot I hadn’t.…
Yesterday we saw history made with Crystal Palace taking home the FA Cup. For some people it’s just another football match. For others, football is corporate bullshit – a huge game with multi-millions thrown into it that’s distracted from the grass roots working class origin of the game. A friend commented on my emotional reaction…
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…
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