Sep 3, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A FESTIVAL REVIEW
The iconic Isle of Wight Festival returns to Seaclose Park on 16 – 19 September 2021 after the Covid hiatus put paid to last year’s...
Aug 27, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: DEATH OF A LEGEND
Musicians truly lost one of their own this week with the sad news that The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts had died at the age of...
Aug 20, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: DIDN’T SEE IT COMING?
Let’s face it. August hasn’t been a great month. Firstly, the extreme weather patterns threatening across the planet; one person’s flood...
Aug 13, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: MORTON VALENCE REVISITED
Friday the thirteenth, eh. The last one was back in November and it led me to discover that a morbid fear of this date existed or, not...
Aug 6, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S A MYSTERY
The power of music to take you back to an event or simply a moment in time should never be understated. As one who finds it tricky with...
Jul 30, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GET A HAT
So, if you want to get ahead, get a hat. The imagery and sentiments in that newspaper ad from 1949 may be very much of their time but...
Jul 23, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: NEVER FORGET
On Wednesday, we went to see the elephants in London’s Green Park; yes, just round the corner from the tube station, down by the side of...
Jul 16, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: SELECTIVE VOWEL REDUCTION SYNDROME
Having had a career of sorts in marketing, at times I fret about the ethics of trying to convince folk that they need something they can...
Jul 9, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS
Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four at the front, one's gone home for...
Jul 2, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: A CORNISH TALE OR TWO
The daughter of a Sudanese astrophysicist and a Scottish diplomat, Eliza Shaddad, has a cosmopolitan background having honed her language...
Jun 25, 2021
GENESIS: STRICTLY COME FOXTROT
Travelling home from Devon today so Fifty3 Fridays should return in its regular guise next week. Meanwhile here is a diversion, but a...
Jun 18, 2021
AL STEWART: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE REVISITED
A short staycation in Devon beckons today and so we are taking a break from regular Fifty3 Fridays, the land of new music and most things...