Blogging A review of the gigs I saw last year. And a new classic album post. Health Weight is slowly coming down. Annoyingly, it has stuck as 14 stone for the last two days. Need to start doing more exercise. Speaking and Training Haven’t done enough to prepare for all the training that is coming… Continue reading Week Notes 2
The Beatles
Still catching up on classic albums. Here are my thoughts on The Beatles by The Beatles (that’s the album we all know better as The White Album). Some Historical Context I was six when this came out. I don’t remember it being released, but I have vague memories of singing Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da when I was… Continue reading The Beatles
2012 in Gigs
Here’s an overview of the gigs I saw in 2012. I saw 36 gigs during the year. That’s quite a lot down on 2011, but that’s partly because I broke my leg and didn’t go to gigs for six weeks. I saw some larger gigs than in the previous year. I saw Radiohead, The Killers… Continue reading 2012 in Gigs
Classic Albums 2012
I thought it might be interesting to have an index of the classic albums I reviewed in 2012. So here it is. Album Artist Rating A Night at the Opera Queen [rating=2] Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan [rating=5] The Harder They Come Jimmy Cliff [rating=2] The Specials The Specials [rating=2] LemonJelly.ky LemonJelly [rating=3] Led Zeppelin… Continue reading Classic Albums 2012
Week Notes 1
Let’s start the year as we mean to go on and get the first week notes post of 2013 out of the way. Blogging Yesterday I wrote a brief review of the year and started to catch up on classic albums. Other than that I haven’t written anything for three weeks. Health As expected, I… Continue reading Week Notes 1
Graceland
Still several weeks behind on the classic album front. But I wanted to leave this one until I cam back from my holiday in South Africa – it’s Paul Simon’s Graceland. Some Historical Context I’m not sure I can remember a time when I didn’t know this album. When it was released I was frequenting… Continue reading Graceland
Year Notes 2012
2012 was the first year that I tried writing weekly (although they often turned out to be fortnightly) “week notes” posts. This is a summary of what happened during the year. Blogging I’ve been a disastrous blogger this year. If you ignore the week notes and classic album posts I’ve written about thirty blog posts. I should… Continue reading Year Notes 2012
Week Notes 49 & 50
Another fortnightly “week notes”. This will probably be the last one of the year as I’ll be on holiday for the next two weeks. I’ll try to do a final round-up when I get back early in January. Blogging I wrote a blog post. It was about equal marriage. People seemed to like it. Some… Continue reading Week Notes 49 & 50
OK Computer
Attempting to get less behind on the classic albums… The next one is Radiohead’s OK Computer. Some Historical Context Like REM, I don’t really remember when I first heard Radiohead. I expect I was aware of things like “High and Dry” and “Creep” when they were released as I’m sure they both had lots of… Continue reading OK Computer
Equal Marriage
Over the last few days there has been a fair amount of heat and light coming out of the Tory party, generated by the discussion about equal marriage (or, as the tabloids like to describe it, “gay marriage”). We’ve know for ages that David Cameron is in favour of it and that a lot of… Continue reading Equal Marriage