Old Musical Express

[Video] 1969. Heavy rock starts and ends here.

8th May 20208th May 2020Video

Never bettered.

[Album] Ram (Walked right out of the machinery)

25th April 202025th April 2020Album

So as a Beatles fan, in 1970 I was fascinated to see what our Paul would do on his own. His first album, McCartney, was a very ramshackle construction made at home with a mixture

[Song] Orbital adventures

10th March 202021st June 2021Song

The first record I bought aged 8. Actually it wasn’t it was in fact Fireball XL5, the music from an execrably bad TV series for kids. (Yes it’s on Youtube). But I saw sense and

Lost in music

3rd March 20203rd March 2020General

The old cliche about rock stars being self destructive is kind of true. The problem is that we’ve moved out of the age of rock into the age of hiphop. The old stars are few

[Video] The cover I never knew I wanted to hear

28th February 202028th February 2020Videoprince, radiohead

This one’s actually new to me, despite being 12 years old. I was looking for something else, and came across this gem. From a cursory reading of internet news stories it seems that there was

[Album] Imogen Heap – Speak for Yourself

19th February 202019th February 2020Albumbadly drawn boy, ben folds, chris moyles, dave matthews band, david ford, elliot smith, imogen heap, jami sieber, lemon jelly, matchbox twenty, radio 1, scott mills, singer songwriter, synth pop, the head and the heart, tubular bells, weezer

I’m about to write another piece on an album by artist where I have failed to explore the full catalogue of said artist. I think in many ways this is kind of consistent. I’m writing

[Video] 1969. Heavy rock starts and ends here.

[Album] Ram (Walked right out of the machinery)

[Song] Orbital adventures

Lost in music

[Video] The cover I never knew I wanted to hear

[Album] Imogen Heap – Speak for Yourself

[Video] The familiar group of several young males have returned to the vicinity of neighbouring residential buildings

[Album] Flick – The Perfect Kellulight

[Gig] The first gig

[Video] Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks