You know when you’re the aural company of something genuinely important when you catch yourself staring off into the middle distance as every thought is subsumed by the music, the lyrics, the very air of what’s emanating from the speakers. And so it is with this wonderfully realised recording of Molly Drake’s wistful legacy. Evocative Read More…
Month: May 2017
Never too old to walk it off
If Sunday league football is the ugly sister of the beautiful game, then walking football is surely its flirty spinster niece – with bags of energy in short bursts, you write it off at your peril. The sport was devised in 2011 specifically for the over 50s and although the rules have yet to be Read More…
Together like love and marriage
‘Whatever you do hang on to the reins!’ Carriage driver Phil Worley wasn’t daft enough to let me anywhere near the horses, he was simply relating the first rule of driving – a lesson that stood him in great stead at the Onion Jack Festival in 2015. To celebrate the tradition of the Onion Johnnies Read More…
Shelleyan Orphan – box set go
From Branksome Beach to the world, maybe there’s a parallel reality in which Shelleyan Orphan are as famed as Kate Bush, as cool as the Cocteau Twins and as revered as Portishead; a place where Caroline Crawley and Jemaur Tayle are Britain’s answer to Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein – a creative hothouse that also Read More…
The Vinyl Say 005: Fool Britannia
In every collection there are records that get played all the time, many of them for years, decades even. Then there are those that, while no less treasured, somehow fall by the wayside to lie in wait, ripe for rediscovery. This occasional series chronicles some of those nuggets as they resurface from my own back pages. So, Read More…