There are a couple of things that generally herald The Great British Summer. Mostly, it’s the phrase “Since Records Began”, although it’s generally a mixed bag as to which record is going to be broken during any given year. Early days yet as it’s only May, but “moodiest” seems to be an early contender. Not [...]
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The imagined village of Belbury is an idyllic location not too dissimilar to Trumptonshire. Jolly, eccentric and full of character, the Parish has become rather adept at producing a bunch of uniquely English-flavoured electronic psychedelia. Unlike Camberwick Green and its environs however, there is a sense of ‘otherness’ about Belbury that brings to mind church [...]
What constitutes an actual definition of an EP nowadays is clouded in mystery. It’s probably written down somewhere, hidden away from the rest of humanity and guarded constantly by successive generations of big men with no eyebrows. It all used to be so much easier back in the day when it used to be defined [...]
Before I begin, I should take this opportunity to make an apology. I may well have claimed in a previous post that my possession of Canada-based facts was limited to my knowing that their currency had a picture of a duck on it. I now know this to be wrong, and what I thought was a [...]
There’s a 7 Seconds song called The Music, The Message from their 1995 album of the same name that, like a lot of their stuff in my younger days, struck a permanent chord. Music, kind of whether we like it or not, guides us and soundtracks us and can occasionally give us the opportunity to do [...]
Yesterday was a good day. Not only did this silly little corner of the internet appear in the national media again (huge thanks again to The Guardian! And you can/should have a go at their Six Songs Of Me project, the memories at my own choices coming as quite a surprise if I’m honest), but I’ve [...]
Well, crumbs. Today marks the 2nd Anniversary of 6 Days From Tomorrow, and I still don’t know what I’m doing. Ah well, it’s been mostly fun so far and I’m not completely fed up with it yet, so thanks to all for variously reading, contributing and recording stuff that’s been giving me something to do [...]
A Trip To The Moon is one of those films that can honestly be described as a Classic. Even to those who haven’t seen it, the image of the Man in the Moon with a rocket planted in his eye is one that most will have seen somewhere or other (The Wonderstuff’s “Hup” album cover [...]
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