Quiet Days

It is now Thursday afternoon, and I’m Remembering Now the events of the past two nights in the beautiful city of Bath with Van Morrison , h...

At the moment I am listening to an album called Jackie by Jackie DeShannon. It is a really nice album. I only bought it because of the Van...

The small and picturesque Wiltshire town of Bradford On Avon came alive on Sunday night with a visit from a music legend, namely Richard Tho...

Friday: It was with a feeling of trepidation that I set off on Friday afternoon for my local record shop in Warminster. I had read some scat...

It has rained here the last two days. The fifth heatwave of the summer appears to be over. Wessex Water which is our local water company bro...

A friend phones me up occasionally and we have chats about music. One evening I mentioned to him about Annie Briggs and Vashti Bunyan and...

It was in the hot summer of 1976 that I first heard the music of Patti Smith. I had moved back to Peterborough briefly and got a job in a ...

I feel today that I should say a few words about Glen Hansard . I can’t claim to have been one of Glen’s greatest fans, but I liked him as a...

Patrick Kavanagh died on this day November 30 th in 1967. He was one of the finest Irish poets and a novelist. Arguably second only to W.B...