A simple and invaluable tip to help you to prepare for a public performance.
How to know it backwards
To the Witchwood
From the Witchwood is a mesmeric musical forest. It is of its time but has enough validity to stand contemporary playing. Sadly, there are songs on here that still need singing for the worst of reasons, but joyfully there are others that can be sung because they are stunningly delightful.
Trailing Tolkien
One ring at the heart of the Shire. A seven-mile walk that starts where it ends.
Antiques, Curios and collectable dreams
Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios is a unique artefact in several ways. It is a live album like no other, in that is truly cohesive in style, mood and configuration, yet it is not a repressing of ‘greatest hits’, nor is it a crowd-pleasing indulgence. It is much closer to a proms concert … Continue reading Antiques, Curios and collectable dreams
Good Enough
Anthony Finnerty: an appreciation of an exceptional companion.
The Dragonfly and the Cello
Stroking stringed instruments and kissing winged insects. An appreciation of the second Strawbs album, released in 1970.
Hard to Swallow
How Wilfrid, Cecilia, and their aerobatic friends protect us from aerosol infection.
Strawbs: Strawbs
The ‘first’ Strawbs album The cover of the first A&M Strawbs album released in 1969 is the most incongruous of them all. It bears no emblematic link to the band or any of the tracks. It has not stood the test of time, perhaps because the only possible justification for it was to appeal to … Continue reading Strawbs: Strawbs
Confluence
There is a quiet thunder where the Hodder and Ribble ram. You feel it more than hear it. There’s a constant wet tumbling, but also a silent thudding, sensed more than detected. It was the only place to go to determine what should be done.
2020 Hindsight
It was uncomfortable to read that some people half my age were happy for me to be slowly suffocated so that they might “get our lives back”. They seemed content that I might receive my last orders so that they could get served at the bar a little sooner. They didn’t put it like that, … Continue reading 2020 Hindsight
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