September - 2024

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Sep 30

Kristofferson dies aged 88

What a great loss. What a great writer. What a great actor. What a great friend. So said Dolly Parton on learning that her friend Kris...

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Sep 23

Playlist: Great Opening Tracks

A couple of things this last week - one a sadly unfolding saga of a band crumbling in front of our eyes, the other a very specific (and...

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Sep 18

Warren Zevon

Earlier this month (7th September) marked twenty one years since we lost the musician Warren Zevon in 2003, aged 56. Today we commemorate...

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Sep 15

The best and worst of music: Addiction bust up and some wholesome Flavor

It is fair to say that the two music stories that caught my eye at the end of last week capture both the best and worst of the what music...

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Sep 11

Playlist: Geography 8 - Africa

It is time for another of our geographically themed playlists - and this time we focus on the large, mysterious continent of Africa....

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Sep 7

About a Boy: U2 as post-punk heroes?

When four Dublin teenagers burst onto the scene in 1980, it is a possibility that they might have ended up being 'just another post-punk...

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Sep 1

Playlist: Teenagers

It was a random song on a playlist I had on in the car yesterday that I hadn't heard in a while, coupled with the fact that there were...