Browsing Posts tagged Folk

Yeah, I know I’m either slightly late or incredibly early with this, but it’s fairly pertinent to be a-writing about this EP in the middle of January, but for one thing there is a large supermarket chain (who, incidentally, started selling chocolate Easter Bunnies on Boxing Day and who are now taking orders for 2013 [...]

Some people, it has to be said, are busier than others.  Not my postman obviously, not seen hide nor hair of him since last Friday when he should be delivering more than a couple of choice parcels from both these fair isles and abroad.  Thankfully, I have a whole bunch of stuff happily piled up [...]

This has come as a bit of a turn-up for the books, and no mistake.  Again, I was just browsing around – can’t even cite boredom as an excuse at the moment either as I have a stack of good and great recent records & reissues to plough through – and this did one of [...]

Hello, I’m on a train. Isn’t technology marvellous? The reason for this will hopefully become apparent tomorrow morning when I will be on a train heading in the opposite direction going on about something else. So, with little further ado, this is another of those “not looking forward to much at the mo so am [...]

Due to the generally fickle nature of being me as a full-time occupation, I don’t really have many clear-cut favourites of anything much.  At any given moment, I will happily profess my undying love for red wine before sneaking off for an unfaithful sip of a cheeky Chenin Blanc, the morning awful barmcakes are decorated [...]

There’s a famous stage direction used by William Shakespeare in The Winter’s Tale, where the Sicilian Lord Antigonus meets his unfortunate offstage end with the sentence “Exit, pursued by a Bear“.  It’s a strange end for a nobleman, and one that would have had the stalls and cheap seats in the Globe in raptures, provided [...]

Growing older.  It’s something we hate doing, but it’s also something that we wished would happen to other people not so lucky to have done so.  It’s also an unnecessarily scary procedure compared to, say, puberty – at least back then we had pamphlets and sympathetic teachers and doctors to tell us what was going on. [...]

I’d love to know why May is such a mad one for new records.  Maybe it’s a budgetary year thingy or something, in the same way that all the roads round here suddenly need resurfacing, digging and repainting (not necessarily in that order) around this time of year.  Maybe May is traditionally a big month [...]

I am not a calm man.  I tend to wander through life in a general state of being so highly-strung that it’s a constant bafflement to modern science that when I speak, it’s not at a frequency that only cats can hear.  It’s OK though, as not only am I fairly comfortable (well, resigned) in [...]

Cor, It’s like waiting for a bus isn’t it?  This last couple of weeks has been especially busy release-wise, it’s all I can do to keep up… This is yet another of those pre-release streams, a concept that is proving to be rather handy this week as it means that I’m not sat here on [...]