The Beauty and the Chaos indeed Leopards don’t change their spots and thats a good thing. There is a reason I bought ‘Unbelievable’ and ‘I Believe’ on CD single and Shubert Dip on Vinyl back in 1991. The CDs are away in a box somewhere in the loft replaced by streaming but the Vinyl is…
This is a retrospective After starting this blog I was not going to go back over past gigs just look forward but as Depeche Mode played this week at the O2 and tour roughly every 4 years, plus I went and saw this tour already, I feel its appropriate, especially as I have not missed…
I could have fitted in many more stores if; The one store I intended to visit while in New York was Rough Trade, a store I frequent in London whenever I visit, Rough Trade East to be precise. It has a proper record store ambience, a cross between Tower Records, Piccadilly and a 1980s side…
I finally made it to CBGBs. For those interested the music club opened in 1973 and the front canopy had the letters CBGB & OMFUG which stands for “Country, Bluegrass, Blues, and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers”. The club was opened and run by Hilly Kristal in Manhatten’s East Village in the Bowery. Band such as The Ramones,…
I listen to a lot of music and I still buy a lot, I listen to it in interchangeable waves of style and genre led by mood or imagination or some other cosmic force that brainworms a choice. Since hearing ‘No Sleep till Brooklyn’ in 1987 they have never been out of my circulation. No…
So I was headed to New York for a few days, time to see what’s on, I had three evenings there, two of which were already taken so it was all about the 12th of January, there are a good number of venues big and small covering a lot of genres but the first online…
You get these records by established artists, theres been a build up of anticipation as the record companies have done their job drip feeding posts to grow the excitement, then the day comes. This day came and the opening second of music/guitar brought a smile to my face and fair to say a few goosebumps!…
