I had been thinking about starting a thread on Plex and Sonos. My Logitech Squeezebox had given up playing music from my Mac, so, for a special birthday, I have just upgraded to Sonos. Of course, had Sonos […]

I was brought up an an almost entirely classical music household. Pre-school, I apparently called Sibelius 2 “Dark and stormy night music”, but that may have been more to do with the picture on the LP cover tha […]

I was also in Symphony Hall last Sunday. I was particularly moved by the idea of keeping the eighth soloist off-stage, so that when she sang, as the ‘Queen of Heaven’, this ethereal voice came from nowhere soa […]

Section 3 appears to be on Counts.
Section 10 are all English composers. Managed 8 without using Google.

That’s as far as I’ve got so far.

Like the adverts with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter. When asked, people thought they were for Martini, not Cinzano.
Won lots of awards for the advertising agency though.

It was an excellent gig. I have never seen them live together before. As you say, both singers were in excellent voice and have obviously been taking care of them.
There was a lovely Tabor moment at the […]

Two friends of ours retired to Bridport three years ago and are having a great time. Just avoid the main A road on Saturdays during the school holidays and Bank Holidays.

We are facing exactly this question. Probably retiring in summer 2021 and currently living in tied accommodation, so we have to find somewhere of our own. No children, so no particular family ties, except one […]

In a department store, you could buy furniture and have it covered in corduroy, felt, suede, or even denim.
In fact you could buy everything but the girl.

Bruce’s Nebraska is a retelling of ‘Badlands’. Both are accounts of the Starkweather killings in 1958.

I’ve just enjoyed an hour with Michael Kiwanuka and a very good band.

5 to get from the Goodies to Tinariwen – via The Troggs of course.

I agree that it isn’t Simon and Garfunkel’s greatest song, but I disagree that it is made by the production. Have you heard the live version from 1969? It is just Art and the piano part (played, I presume, by […]

Slightly cheating by going with four, but if pushed I would chose the last three as having the greatest differences.

The Times they are a-Changin’. Songs of protest sung by a 22 year old sounding 60.
Another […]

That was my first thought too.

Keith Richards’ Life is 99p on Kindle, for today only.

We’ve often played it as individuals, with the winner being the one with the most correct answers. And we only allow one word for the second round, not two.
Oh, and we don’t restrict ourselves to real people: […]

It was in yesterday’s Kindle Daily Deal, sadly now over.

99p on Amazon just for today.

I saw them at the Warwick FF in the summer and very impressive they were too. If I remember there were a few jokes at the expense of the English one, who didn’t know what he was singing.
If the CD had been […]