The Vinyl Say 023: The Rock Machine Turns You On

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 series chronicles some of those nuggets as they resurface from my own back pages. So, put Read More…

Graham Stansfield: From Coronation to Consort

Graham Stansfield has had his share of ups and downs with music, but even in the grip of on-going chemotherapy treatment, it’s the one thing outside his family that keeps him going and as the composer sits in the upstairs lounge of his home overlooking the distant Purbeck hills, he’s glad to count his blessings. Read More…

Leonard Cohen 26:08:2013

Windsor Hall, Bournemouth International Centre When Leonard Cohen turns 80 next year he’s going to start smoking again… He tells us exactly how in the lengthy pre-amble to Anyhow, a highlight of his most recent album Old Ideas, which he sets in a protracted jazz ramble that captures its author at his very finest – Read More…