After looking forward to the Croydon World Party for months now, I realised yesterday that it clashes with the Broadfield community centre fete – the highlight of Broadfield’s social calendar as any fule no. Also it clashes with Crawley Town’s friendly against Milwall – and how often do you see “Millwall” and “friendly” in the […]
Entries Tagged as 'World music'
Only one week to go
July 7th, 2006 · Comments Off on Only one week to go · Music
Just a week to go until the Croydon World Party on July 15th and Mela on July 16th. I think I will give the Mela a miss. We have our own in Crawley later in the month so I shall go to hat instead of making the trip up to Croydon two days running. For […]
Tags: Concerts·World music
New VCR goodness
May 25th, 2006 · Comments Off on New VCR goodness · Music, Technology
Back in January my old VCR died, and I was reconciled to living without access to the few essential things I still have on VHS. This week I managed to lay my hands on one in return for a token donation to a charity, and 4 months late I was able to watch a bit […]
Ojos de Brujo
May 7th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Music
Another CD which tempted me at the same time as Rodrigo y Gabriela, was the new album from Ojos de Brujo called Techari. Ojos de Brujo come from the vibrant music scene of Barcelona, and have a strong flamenco flavour, with gypsy and Arabic aspects and rapping and scratchng thrown in for good measure. It […]
Tags: Concerts·iRiver·Reviews·World music
African soul rebels in Brighton
January 8th, 2006 · Comments Off on African soul rebels in Brighton · Music
I spotted a small story about Amadou and Mariam in the Observer today. They are touring as part of the African Soul Rebels package. Last year this featured Daara J, Rachid Taha and Tinariwen and I am still kicking myself for missing that one. This year the package is Amadou & Mariam, Saoud Massi and […]
Tags: Brighton·Concerts·World music
That was the year that was
December 19th, 2005 · Comments Off on That was the year that was · Life, Music
2005 is nearly over, and its been an eventful one. There were some major events with a global impact – the earthquake in Pakistan and the floods in the US after hurricane Katrina – and some of more limited significance like West Ham getting promoted and Gang of Four releasing a new album. Not a […]
Tags: Computing·Football·Gang of Four·Live 8·Nostalgia·Pink Floyd·World music
89 is barely scratching the surface!
November 21st, 2005 · 2 Comments · Music
Lisa has been writing about this article in the Guardian last week. The article starts with a statistic from Napster, that the average person owns 126 albums, of which 37 have been lost, leaving just 89. It goes on to speculate which 89 albums you should own if that is the case. I was faintly […]
Tags: Gang of Four·Kraftwerk·Nostalgia·Pink Floyd·Spizzenergi·World music
African music on tap
September 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on African music on tap · Music
Here is something to look forward to – an African channel for satellite TV. Its going live in the US soon and is supposed to reach here sometime next year. Please let it be a free channel! In the meantime, I have been listening to a few internet radio stations (isn’t broadband wonderful) for African […]
Tags: World music
TV5
August 31st, 2005 · Comments Off on TV5 · Life
One of the pleasures of Sky Digital is having TV5 available. Years ago when I had an analogue dish there were a few European channels available free on the Astra satellite – RTL4, Rai Uno, Sat1, and a few others, as well as MTV Europe when it was pan-European and had quite a few non-British […]
Tags: TV·World music
Africa Live
August 10th, 2005 · Comments Off on Africa Live · Music
I have just finished watching the most amazing concert on BBC Four. It was two hours of highlights from a concert held in March this year in Dakar to raise awareness of the ongoing malaria crisis in Africa. For anyone at all interested in African music, the line-up for the show was more impressive than […]
