With the visit of my dad from the UK, we were able to enjoy Christmas 2.0 this morning. No point in posting gifts back to the UK when there’s someone coming over who can take them back. No point in posting anything to South Africa, full stop. If I could be summed up in garments, […]
Lots of thoughts to jot down today, but all of them instantly wiped from my memory having heard this on 6 Music’s Loud and Proud LGBTQ+ All Day Rave (phew!), this morning. When that piano synth riff kicks in at 1:16… What a moment of release! The original (this is the 2009 remaster) was an […]
Am I alone in repeatedly thinking that today is/was Saturday? End of week public holidays can have that effect, and even though BBC 6 Music kept trying to remind me of what was going on with a normal weekday lineup, it’s now 8pm and I think I’m waking up on Sunday tomorrow. Awoken disappointingly early […]
The Manic Street Preachers covering Madonna’s 1983 hit Borderline, live in Cardiff? Yeah, we’ll have a bit of that, thank you very much. More of the 6 Music Festival from the Welsh capital throughout the weekend. (There, not here.)
No. Not me. And probably not you, statistically speaking. But 6 Music turns 20 today, so happy birthday to it. My spiritual, musical home, not always a harmonious (pun actually intended) relationship, but sometimes things need to be a bit challenging and difficult. It’s also both the reason that I use Spotify, and the reason […]