Strange how your priorities change. Ten years ago I’d never have missed the Cambridge Folk Festival. This year I didn’t even register that it was happening. The BBC review makes it sound like it was a lot of fun. And maybe I did subconsciously realise that it was taking place as I’ve been listening to… Continue reading Cambridge Folk Festival
Category: music
No One Takes Your Freedom
I’d always assumed it was by Party Ben (most of the mash-ups I’ve been enjoying recently seem to be) but a bit of googling indicates that “No One Takes Your Freedom” is actually by DJ Earworm. Anyway, it’s on heavy rotation here. The Scissor Sisters, The Beatles, George Michael and Aretha Franklin – what more… Continue reading No One Takes Your Freedom
BBC Beethoven
You’ll have heard that the BBC are making new performances of all of Beethoven’s symphonies available for download as MP3s. In this post, Dan Hill (from BBC Radio and Music Interactive) says that this has been extremely successful (600,000 downloads) and has generated a huge amount of discussion around the BBC. Which can only be… Continue reading BBC Beethoven
Live 8 Tickets
So the Live 8 ticket lottery winners have all got their text messages and I didn’t get one. My stepdaughter’s boyfriend did tho’, so they’ll be off to see it together. I’m slightly jealous. But I suspect I’ll get a better view on the TV.
Pink Floyd
I didn’t really have much interest in going to the Live 8 concert. Those kinds of gigs where there are far too many people and you only really want to see a third of the acts have very little interest for me. But I sent a text message in to the draw away – just… Continue reading Pink Floyd
Cooking Vinyl
It’s nice and sunny today and that always makes me think of World Music. The first time I remember coming across the term “world music” when I bought the album New Roots in 1989. It was a very well-planned album as it had a number of artists that I already knew and liked (Billy Bragg,… Continue reading Cooking Vinyl
Choosing Music
Recently, most of my CD buying seems to be replacing records that I own on vinyl as I can’t be bothered to get my turntable set up to listen the originals. Ebay is proving to be a great source for cheap replacements. And I’m finding that the music I want to listen to (and, hence,… Continue reading Choosing Music
Live Music
We went off to The Bedford last night to see some live music. I was drawn there by the chance to see Andy White for the first time for far too many years, but there were too other acts on too. First up was Foy Vance. He’s obviously heavily influenced by Luka Bloom (which is… Continue reading Live Music
Weekend Listening
After being reminded of the existence of Andy White on Friday I had a look for some more of his albums in Virgin that evening. They were all a bit pricy (well, standard price and who pays standard price for CDs these days?) so I found a couple I was missing on Ebay when I… Continue reading Weekend Listening
Andy White
I’ve just been reminded how much I like Andy White as he’s apparently playing a free gig at my local pub on the 23rd May. For those of you (and I’m sure there are many) who are unfamiliar with his work, Andy has some samples on his web site, but unfortunately they are just extracts… Continue reading Andy White