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 […]

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‘Marley was dead, to begin with.’ DIckens: A Christmas Carol
(It’s the placing of the comma that adds to the brilliance.)

‘All boys, except one, grow up.’ J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan
(Though on this […]

Looks like its back to the iPod.

I used to catch RadMac on the way to or from evening meetings back in the old days before Radio 2 closed down. And then it’s been catching them when travelling around in the […]

Without wanting to lower the tone – there’s always Mr Loaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”.

Bridge Over Troubled Water.
No, not the original, I am sure Mr Simon would never be ungrammatical. However, Miss Franklin adds her own introduction where the backing singers repeatedly sing, “Still water run […]

Just one more thing ….

Similarly, I can’t believe than nobody has mentioned Rev Green and ‘How can you mend a broken heart?’

I saw Stephane Grappelli when he was around 80/81 but can’t remember exactly which year. At my first Prom concert I saw/heard Adrian Boult conduct Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. He was 87.

I usually browse from my iPad which doesn’t have access to all my music, so I would miss something, but I’m on the Mac especially to add my list.

Big Big Train – Grimspound (though not as good as […]

Going to see/hear her on Friday for the first time. Really looking forward to it.

Agreed. Our conductor is a string player, amongst other things, and he often instructs us on where to place the bow to get the sound he wants. On the bridge gives a different sound to on the fingerboard. In the […]

To take a slightly complex example, the first opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Das Rheingold) has almost 60 different parts in the orchestra alone. Some of those parts are played by multiple players; Wagner […]

That future is already here – albeit slightly clunky. In this year’s RSC production of ‘The Tempest’, Ariel wore such a suit and the audience could see the hologramic image and the actor at the same time. It […]

Sorry, misread Wiki. I was looking for “semi-final”, but by 1990 there was the third place playoff, so I missed it. Still, my point being that England have rarely got anywhere near winning a major title, except […]

I was going to mention the article that appeared in the Saturday Guardian a few weeks ago. Speaking as someone with precious little interest in football – I couldn’t name a single England player, let alone which […]

Also present and correct at Warwick Arts last night. I was surprised it wasn’t more full: I had most of a row to myself and those behind were completely empty. So, about 80% capacity I would have thought. (At […]

Finished Jerusalem a month or so ago. It took a little while and I took time out now and again. Here’s my review from Goodreads.

Wow.

Let’s get the elephant out of the way first. This book is 1280 pages […]