I’m a sucker for a music documentary, any insight into the workings of musicians processes and methods has always fascinated me. I am a big fan of the Depeche Mode 101 documentary from 1989 which you could say gave me the blueprint for what I want from an ‘insight’ film. Yes, show us the music,…
It’s based in a record store, what more can I ask for? I have never worked in a record store but I have spent way to much time having ridiculous conversations in them, yes, a lot with friends in ‘the old days’ when multiple megastores existed mainly HMV or Virgin, even the smaller Our Price…
I settled down last night to watch a film, I’ve been a bit vacant from TV for a while aside from a couple of series I’m following but knew there were a few new films to take a look at. To be honest after sitting on and through Cider Apple Vinegar for the afternoon, which…
A couple of days ago there was a post up on Twitter / X showing an old Aiwa stack system asking “are you this old”. I looked at it and thought “just” but was impressed that it was at least a separates stack system, as in each layer, the twin cassette, the CD player the…
Those of you from a certain era most likely created mixtapes. The word ‘mixtape’ is a curious one as yes, they hold a moment of nostalgia in memory and a romantic essence as they were often created within a relationship for a desired effect. Most of the time the recording on a cassette was just…
Yes I like music videos, I grew up as part of the MTV generation, instead of playing music all day I would often put MTV on the TV in the front room, turn it up and enjoy the visual as well as the music. This was in the good old days of music shows such…
This morning I started to receive emails from record shops regarding ‘National Album Day‘ as apparently it returns on October 19th 2024 for its seventh year of existence and this year they have decided the theme is going to be ‘Great British Groups’. It is also teaming with what it calls a ‘broadcast partner’ in…
Well, I hope others were luckier than me, I hinted in a previous post that after not being successful in the first ballot I was ready and waiting at 8.55 to hit get tickets expecting a queue but at that exact moment i got a white screen, it thought I was a bot like it…
So Damon Albarn of Blur said in an article in the NME that he is against Bob Dylan’s decision to ban phones at gigs: “Where does it end?” “People won’t want to be on their phone if you’re engaging with them correctly” The NME article in question The BBC article on the same subject I…
If you saw the news this weekend, Kerrang, Kiss, 4Music, Magic and The Box have ceased programming. Back on the 29 January 2024, Channel 4 announced that Kerrang! TV and its sister channels would be closing as part of the future plans of the company leading up to 2030. So that’s it, gone! I missed…
