In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading off to La Gomera to prep our boat for our departure on 12th December as we row across the Atlantic to Antigua. We’re in a race called the Worlds Toughest Row but as a bunch of oldies we’re just looking to have an adventure and help a local Cornish charity the Invictus Trust to raise money and offer help for adolescent mental health here in Cornwall. It will take us about 45 days, unsupported, taking all provisions with us. So I’ve downloaded playlists, some podcasts, a couple of audio books and all of Blackadder to listen to. But I’d really appreciate your help offering suggestions for whole albums to download off Spotify. Any genre, any period. Just one caveat – you must absolutely love it. It must be one that you go back to time and again. It will do something for you that other most albums, however good, don’t. Some of your suggestions I’ll know and already have, but most I won’t. And I’d really love the opportunity to listen to pieces of music that are new to me, in the middle of the night perhaps, during a 2 hour rowing » Continue Reading.
Taylor Voltaire
Article in the Guardian on a hiccup with a tiny number of now valuable copies of the new Taylor Swift album. Makes me want to check out the source material. Also, only half of new albums bought will ever be played?
