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.
Lamont Dozier skips gig commitments, the rascal.
One of the gigs I pre-booked aeons ago, pre-pandemic, was to see Lamont Dozier perform solo at St. Georges in Bristol. Sadly, due to reported ill-health, he had to cancel, and the tickets were put into limbo, hopefully anticipating a re-schedule at some later date. But now he’s cancelled, permanently, and I won’t ever get to experience his particular genius in person. What a giant of popular music, alongside his Holland buddies, I’ve missed. Nowhere to run to hear him now. RIP old chap, you soundtracked a huge part of my life. Thank you.
