Jan 26
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GLASTONBURY 2024 EMERGING TALENT COMPETITION LAUNCH
Glastonbury Festival’s annual Emerging Talent Competition, once more supported by PRS for Music and PRS Foundation, is back for 2024. The...
Jan 19
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: SOUND LOUNGE SAVED
With grassroots live music venues under increasing threat from spiralling costs and reports that we are losing one a week, it is...
Jan 12
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: TALENT WILL OUT
Last week’s Fifty3 Fridays floated the idea of commercially successful musicians breaking open the piggy bank to help save a struggling...
Jan 5
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ADOPT A LIVE MUSIC VENUE
Photo of Stuart Murdoch from his Twitter account Got any good ideas? Inbetween-mas is sometimes good for inspiration. I’ll give you fifty...
Dec 29, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: 2023 AND ALL THAT
It is time to look back on 2023, not that I hold any affection for much of it. It has been a shitshow politically, economically,...
Dec 22, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE ADVENT CALENDAR REVEALED
It is time to dust off the festive ‘I Love Kingston’ image once again as we approach Christmas Day. Today's Fifty3 Fridays is all about...
Dec 15, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 15
Most weeks Fifty3 Fridays focuses on new music largely from emerging or grassroots artistes and I have a little of that ilk for you...
Dec 9, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE COVID
Today’s musical fare is all to do with Christmas but like a cold takeaway it is at risk of being served up a tad late. With the Covid...
Dec 2, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: PINCH PUNCH
Pinch, punch, first of the month… and no returns. White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits! Well, it is 1st December and there is a...
Nov 24, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: DUSTING OFF HEY! SELIM BY REVERE
With apologies to those artistes who I had lined up for a feature this Friday, I have had to defer it until next week. Sometimes life...
Nov 17, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: BACK TO THE DIGEST
Recent editions of this weekly column have featured live reviews and a track-by-track album guide but today we are back to the more...
Nov 10, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: POST WAR PLANS BY DEBRIS DISCS - TRACK BY TRACK
I was surprised to find that today marks the 200th edition of Fifty3 Fridays including preceding articles on this site. I will be...