The BBC News website asks can we learn to love French pop music? The answer is probably, yes we can… but we won’t. By ‘we’ I mean the British public generally – I already have quite a fondness for French music. The reason for the story is the launch today of French Radio London (FRL), […]
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2010 to-do list
July 5th, 2010 · Comments Off on 2010 to-do list · Life
Come third in general election in Horsham Save 6Music Move house Learn to play bass guitar and ukulele Two down and hope the third will be done before September.  With nearly 40 years’ worth of accumulated books I think I will be packing from now until whenever we move. Might have to put a couple […]
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Mixed messages
February 14th, 2010 · Comments Off on Mixed messages · Life
I was listening to the news on 6Music yesterday, or rather half-listening. The penultimate item was some organisation or other (well I was only half-listening) talking about how a lot of people are turning to gambling in an attempt to balance the domestic books. The general tone was how this is a bad thing, and […]
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Catch it while you can – Little Boots and Numan
February 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on Catch it while you can – Little Boots and Numan · Music
Available on the BBC’s iPlayer until Friday evening – a Radio 6 Music session with Little Boots and Gary Numan, bridging the electropop generation gap. I wasn’t too keen on the piano-based version of Are ‘Friends’ Electric? but very much enjoyed the version of Venus in Furs. Just a shame it stopped before the end […]
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No surprises
July 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Music
I was listening to Planet Rock while shaving the bonce and showering tonight and it struck me how complicit they are in perpetuating the syndrome whereby most of us only know a single song by fairly prolific artists.  I have recently been using Spotify to explore the hinterland of such bands: listening to Blue Oyster […]
Any Questions
June 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Any Questions · Politics
This evening I went down to Billingshurst to sit in the audience for Radio 4’s Any Questions. This means that I have now seen two different Dimblebys in the flesh this year. It also means that I have now heard a complete Radio 4 programme – even if I didn’t actually hear it on the […]
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Going digital
January 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Going digital · Music, Technology
At Christmas I acquired a DAB radio. How I came about it was that I wanted to get Jayne a mini/micro stereo for the kitchen to replace the ancient and ailing ghetto blaster there. When I went to the shop I found they were giving away a portable DAB radio ‘worth’ £50 with the model […]
I Know What I Know
November 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Music
Having an interesting dialogue with the sister in the comments here which has got me thinking about gaps in (musical) knowledge. Really, there is so much music that it is difficult and probably impossible to keep up with it all. I guess it is easier if you are really into a specific genre or style […]
The Message
November 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on The Message · Life
With so much rubbish written about that phone call its very tempting to add to the hysteria, but after reading Charlie Brooker and Andrew Wongablog on the subject there really is nothing more to say. No point in even ranting about the double standards of the DM with its crusade to defend the right to […]
Capital (It Fails Us Now)
October 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
Heard on Rick Wakeman’s show on Planet Rock: Q: What’s the capital of Iceland? A: £1.24