Tag Archive | Music
The School Orchestra, circa 1966
…and so in a remarkable feat of generosity the Parent Teachers Association of Cookridge County Primary School stumped up some cash for Pimple Head Thirsky to go and buy some musical instruments being that he’d told them how wonderfully musically talented we all were on the bleach bottle and dried peas rhythm thingys. If we [...]
My time as a choirboy
I don’t know how I ended up in the school choir, suffice to say I just did, ok ? Maybe Mr Weber (known to all simply as “Weber”, add a hint of hatred and spite when you spit his name forth) was just desperate for numbers, maybe our intake that year didn’t have sufficient quantities [...]
Video Saturday – Rascal Flatts
Damn fine band, pigeon-holed as “country” but much more than that, several albums and nine years into a recording career they’re still churning out some excellent stuff, had I been their manager however I would have hesitated a little when the offer to include one of their tracks on the Hannah Montana album came in, [...]
Video Saturday – Booker T & the MG’s
You can understand how a record company who had this group of session musicians as their “house band” just couldn’t fail to make a succession of hit records can’t you ? Working in Stax Records studios throughout the 1960′s they recorded with the likes of Otis Reading, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Eddie Floyd [...]
At last, some memory…
Today I should get my laptop back. Its been 48 hours since I lent it to Ned for his use as a mobile disco and since then I’ve been using a WIndows Vista equipped laptop that we bought for Jodie to use back in January, it was cheap enough, £299 in Asda, and now I [...]
The Arabs
Following yesterdays rant at all things newspaper, and Muslim, its an opportune moment to tell, once again, the story of The Arabs… Its the cool and trendy 1980′s, early 1980′s, punk still hasn’t quite left us yet but all over the country musicians are starting to favour the mullet haircut and brightly coloured jackets with [...]
Viacom is out hunting…
The US court ruling that Google must hand over to Viacom their YouTube log database of users viewing habits with an aim to suing the video hosting web site for an amount of money that would make a Saudi Royal Family’s eyes water, is another example of business not understanding their core market or how [...]
Video Saturday – Focus
I still kick myself for not going to see an acoustic set of Jan Akkerman (above) while I was at the Edinburgh Festival last year, I mean, I’d circled the gig notice in the huge 200 page Festival programme and everything – I just forgot Plans are already in formation stage for a re-visit to [...]
Call me Linda McCartney
So our Ned is in this band see, its not a famous band, you will never have heard of them, they are just a bunch of friends who hire out a practice studio every week to, well, practice. At one time they had about eight guitar players in the band so our Ned bought himself [...]
