The Guv’nor! 😀

Gone now.

Wait till you get to the Cello Suites and Mass in B minor…

…a prospective breaker of strings here. I have no stage fright – the only thing that worries me ahead of the show is that all my songs are in a variety of tunings. It’s the tuning up that worries me…

Obviously, I should have said ‘Wish me luck… in Welsh’ 😀

BOOKS: I felt the need to re-read Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Farthest Shore’ (book three of the original Earthsea trilogy) so did so – via a combination of an audio version (useful because I started when I had a heavy […]

You appear to be transcribing Donald Sinden’s hang-on-a-minute-I’ve-forgotten-my-line vocalese… 😀

I could never afford those!

The above text is the book’s blurb. Having been privileged to have seen the book in advance, let me share some of my own enthusiasm for it… 🙂 The presentation is incredible and the knowledge / […]

And here is the sales link, with additional images from the book: https://www.elvinyl.com/listings/3939843-books-for-sale?fbclid=IwAR0uPv70f2J92wnHy02Vzz_ynCr04fG1JBPKiDmZy0SNLATxWNm4SQ-VSvw

No Ulster farmer ever sounded that mystical and melodious!

Did she have any kind of singing career after the ABBA experience, Loki? And is yodelling not used in Sweden to lure trolls out of forests?

Who knew?

I’m a pal of Ash – great fellow, indeed. But, series or not, the design really is dreadful on a number of levels – fonts, colouring, composition…

Fascinating review, Fatima – great points about the production / recording quality vis a vis the Fabs. Design-wise, though, it’s a dreadful cover, isn’t it?

Sensational. I agree so much with this… ‘I don’t know how they do it, these peripatetic troubadours. I don’t know why their appearances are not always packed with refugees from the idiot box and the rol […]

Hence, that well-known phrase ‘to hit the Grauniad running’ (trans. ‘to get around to doing something after a leisurely period of pottering about and prevarication’). 🙂

Very good! 😀 Obviously, Don invented Alastair Sim…