Dec 24, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: COMETH THE ADVENT CALENDAR
It may not be an original idea but it is something I intend to do every year until we get to around 8 December and I realise it’s way too...
Dec 17, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: MY FAVOURITE MONKEE
Like your favourite Beatle, growing up in the sixties we all had our favourite Monkee. Mine was woolly-hatted guitarist Michael Nesmith...
Dec 10, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S CHRISTMAS!!
OK, Noddy, we hear. Shame we can’t get your Nuts in Sainsbury’s any more. It just ruins my fortnightly shopping experience. With the big...
Dec 3, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE ROADS WE TRAVEL
It has always struck me that songwriting is much like a journey. There’s a linear progression running through a song through which the...
Nov 26, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: STORMY WEATHER
As Britain braces itself for a weekend of inclement weather as Storm Arwen heads for the UK bringing with it 75mph gales and by...
Nov 19, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ARE YOU AWAKE YET?
Are you awake yet? Then let us begin. On Tuesday night I was among an enthusiastic crowd at The Bedford in downtown Balham (gateway to...
Nov 12, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: COP OUT
Today marks the close of the COP26 climate summit; a COP being a Conference of the Parties and the parties being all nation states that...
Nov 5, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: 100 NOT OUT
Today marks the 100th post on this website. A small milestone maybe but one that still makes you think about how much good music is put...
Oct 29, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEW
At the end of a month of Fifty3 Fridays largely devoted to live music, it’s back to the recorded variety today. Forgiving the ever so...
Oct 22, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: REACH FOR THE FOIL HAT
It’s one of those occasions when I realise that travelling to distant lands, well County Durham, Cheshire and Derbyshire, is incompatible...
Oct 15, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: CUT THE CHAT
The last couple of Fifty3 Fridays have seen the focus switched towards live music, whose welcome return is tempered by a nagging doubt...
Oct 8, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: BEDFORD BLISS
A deviation from the usual F3F format this week as we focus on a review of a spectacular evening in South-west London on 30 September at...