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Go Down Easy, John Martyn (20:31) - John Martyn created a music that was all his own: fitting his personality like a pair of worn-in shoes; slavishly-imitated but never matched. In the ramshackle recent years his physical deterioration was sad to watch but the passion in his...
Posted at January 29, 2009 08:31 PM by rob in Heroes , Music , Rob | Comments (0)

Appearing Now at the Underachievers Stage (08:55) - The WOMUD festival this year featured a new 'Under a Tree' stage. With my innate ability to mis-hear public announcements (does anyone else hear that message in Sainsbury's: "cleaner to aisle 8 for a wet spinach") this filtered through to...
Posted at September 16, 2007 08:55 AM by rob in Music , Rob | Comments (1)

The Perfumed Garden (21:50) - I've alluded previously to my great debt to John Peel. For several years in my teens I listened with religious devotion to Peel's show. Finger poised on the pause button of my reel-to-reel, I recorded anything that piqued my interest....
Posted at February 28, 2006 09:50 PM by rob in Heroes , Music , Rob | Comments (0)

Make Music! with Chris Redmond (11:51) - Every year during the half-term holidays about this time I go to the Tower Arts Centre to do a workshop. Sometimes it has been art and crafts, drama or singing but this year and two years ago (2004) I went...
Posted at February 19, 2006 11:51 AM by clara in Clara , Music | Comments (0)

Beautiful Days - like festivals used to be? (23:59) - This year our summer tour took in Beautiful Days for the first time. This festival has been widely described as "like festivals used to be". I think that phrase is meant to distinguish Beautiful Days from the sort of festival...
Posted at January 4, 2006 11:59 PM by cem in Caroline , Music | Comments (0)

Festival Food Awards 2005 (23:59) - It's not only the music that takes us out on the festival circuit every summer; we also go for the food. Here are some of our favourites: Leon Lewis Leon is peerless as a festival caterer, and has been top...
Posted at January 3, 2006 11:59 PM by cem in Caroline , Music | Comments (1)

2005 Music Awards (21:28) - With two four-hour drives a week during the latter part of this year, I've had plenty of time to listen to music. 5 am at Sutton Scotney can be a surprisingly evocative time and place, and some of the most...
Posted at December 25, 2005 09:28 PM by rob in Music , Rob | Comments (0)

They hae slain the Earl o' Moray and Lady Mondegreen (00:00) - The mondegreen was named for this mishearing of the Scottish ballad, "They hae slain the Earl o' Moray and layd him on the green". Everyone has their favourite mondegreens, the gems of innocent misunderstanding which stand out from the contrived...
Posted at December 21, 2005 12:00 AM by cem in Caroline , Music | Comments (0)

Glastonbury photos appear (15:45) - After the customary pause for procrastination, a small set of photos from this year's Glastonbury festival are now posted in the photo library. Another festival dominated by the weather, though some of our camp site neighbours seemed to revel in...
Posted at July 24, 2005 03:45 PM by rob in Music , Rob | Comments (0)

Drummers (00:00) - The BBC Dorset site included this photo of Rob and Tom taking part in the djembe workshop at the Larmer Tree festival. A couple of things I should make clear:You'll have to take my word for it, but Rob...
Posted at July 22, 2005 12:00 AM by cem in Caroline , Music | Comments (0)

Dink's Song (22:23) - So I was listening today to Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-é and he took me off on a little ethno-musicologist wandering. If you don't know it, this is an extended recording of one of Jeff's solo shows at a...
Posted at May 9, 2005 10:23 PM by rob in Music , Rob | Comments (3)

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (02:02) - "A record made from nothing but other records?" writes Frank Broughton on his djhistory.com site. The innovations that this record introduced have become so commonplace that it almost sounds clichéd: the Good Times riff, the scratching and 'found' recordings. But...
Posted at March 4, 2005 02:02 AM by rob in Music , Rob , Vinyl Countdown | Comments (0)
The Vinyl Countdown (01:06) - A hoarder, me; I have a cupboard filled with about 500 LPs and probably an equal number of 7" and 12" singles. Caroline is constantly telling me they are an anchor, mooring us in the dock of clutter. And I...
Posted at March 4, 2005 01:06 AM by rob in Music , Rob | Comments (0)

Spiers & Boden play Winchester (01:21) - Last Friday, the Tower Arts Centre treated us to a concert by the wonderful John Spiers and Jon Boden. This excellent booking was allegedly achieved through Boden calling John Tellett a bastard in Folk on Tap for not having booked...
Posted at January 21, 2005 01:21 AM by cem in Caroline , Music | Trackbacks (91) | Comments (0)

One Morning (21:31) - Before Christmas, Dervala and I discovered a shared relish for Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball album. It's a quiet masterpiece, Daniel Lanois' luminous production cradling a clutch of fine songs from a generation of great writers: Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Lucinda...
Posted at January 12, 2005 09:31 PM by rob in Music , Rob | Trackbacks (84) | Comments (0)

On Hyndford Street (09:05) - Walking out, gloved and hatted against the chill January darkness, leaving behind the Golden Mile, Belfast?s cosmopolitan, Victorian-yet-modern commercial heart, still lit with Christmas decorations. Crossing the Albert Bridge by the Central Railway Station, heading east and turning right on...
Posted at January 5, 2005 09:05 AM by rob in Music , Rob | Trackbacks (299) | Comments (1)

Goodbye Dance Tent? (04:03) - According to efestivals, there will be no Glastonbury Dance tent this year. Its site will be used for the enlarged New Tent, now renamed the John Peel Stage. Which goes to show, as my mother claimed, that fashions always come...
Posted at January 1, 2005 04:03 AM by cem in Caroline , Music | Trackbacks (90) | Comments (0)

2004 music awards (18:18) - It's the time of year when thoughts turn to favourite music, at least for those afflicted (as I am) with Hornby's Syndrome, an unhealthy desire to classify, evaluate and reduce great art to numbers and lists. I've not been on...
Posted at December 31, 2004 06:18 PM by rob in Music , Rob | Trackbacks (312) | Comments (2)