Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 113
Back in the saddle for 3 days. So despite giving up teaching full time in the summer I have been strong-armed (by a charming colleague who played to my ego by telling me I was indispensable) […]
Back in the saddle for 3 days. So despite giving up teaching full time in the summer I have been strong-armed (by a charming colleague who played to my ego by telling me I was indispensable) […]
What is Englishness? A state of mind or something more.. As the rugby world cup unfolds and my previous weekend’s activities are considered I find myself thinking about Englishness and national identity. Perhaps not particularly pertinent […]
Wilco shed another skin on restrained, ruminative and sometimes moving thirteenth studio album. Starting with dissonance on track one, ‘Infinite Surprise’ signals another left turn from Wilco following their Cruel Country road trip. Hiring their first […]
How the other half lives… I have mentioned in this column before that my beloved (and possibly misguided) wife has had a major birthday this month. So major, in fact, that your correspondent has been saving […]
Sunkissed debut of melancholic melodies and plaintive harmonies. Sean McKinney’s follow-up as the Morning Tourist to his 2018 ‘Quiet Places’ is a quiet delight. Sitting somewhere between Villagers, Belle and Sebastian and Danny Wilson with its […]
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