'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
https://youtu.be/yXQViqx6GMY As popular seasonal songs go, Mariah Carey’s high-octane body-shaker, ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’, is certainly among the more memorable of the recent cluster even if, in thought, word and deed, its also one of the more obvious. Nodding at Wizzard’s meaty glam-stomp, ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday’, Mariah’s multi-layered pop whopper, first released... Continue Reading →
The delicate art of just being there can be tricky enough to manage at the best of times, especially to those of us long gone from the streets that raised us, in exile. But just because we’re out of sight, keeping our eyes on the ball and one foot ahead of the other, doesn’t... Continue Reading →
To accompany Tales of the Tape - I thought it might be interesting for Colm to make up a mix tape. This 'mix-tape' was created Sunday 26 November. As is the nature of these things if I had asked today, it may have been a completely different selection of tunes... Enjoy (Martin O'Connor) 1] The... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMy6kq5ZA0 You’d miss R.E.M. all the same, wouldn’t you ? Easily one of the best, certainly one of the most prolific and without doubt one of the most subversive of them all stepped off of the travellator for the last time in 2011, thirty-one years after they’d assembled in Athens, Georgia, from where they launched some of... Continue Reading →
It was because of Mark Cagney’s perenially classy late night radio show on Radio 2, ‘The Night Train’, that I was first alerted to the wonder of Donald Fagen and, as a consequence, Steely Dan, the band – in the loosest of terms possible - that Fagen first roughly sketched out with Walter Becker in... Continue Reading →
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