I realised something a few years back. While as you might suspect, a decent proportion of my music collection comes from the UK and USA,...

It's an emotive subject at the best of times, but migration has been a fact of life throughout human existence. Everyone, if you go back...

The other day (26th March) marked the twentieth anniversary of the world losing Paul Hester. Now, he might not mean much to everyone, but...

After fully embracing the blues in our first playlist of 2025, reflecting on what a dismal, torturous month January can be - now we look...

Now, I am generally not one to embrace the festivities - but tis the season, and all that! Like my daughter's college buses - you wait...

It is hard to believe, but somewhere around this day thirty years ago (yes, really), I attended my university graduation ceremony! I...

Most songs written have fallen into one theme or another - there have been songs about love, day and night, good and bad, life and...

It's the end of April, post number 193, and the second anniversary of this site. Incredibly, in that time, over 450 people have visited...

For some reason, I have always struggled to get to grips with poetry, which is perhaps somewhat strange considering the passion I have...

November 1st and 2nd is a holiday period particularly important in Mexico - known in Spanish as el Dia de Muertos or el Dias de los...

Following on from the 'hidden' treasure trove of Australian songwriters you may not know... Here is my (somewhat) definitive Aussie...

And so we continue. With things still somewhat of a struggle, we are keeping on with our series of decade playlists. This time we roll...

We salute Neil Mullane Finn, one of the pop world's great songwriters, who turns 65 today. He was born in Te Awamutu, on the north island...

With the children away on a school trip in northern Italy - we search the snowy slopes of the Italian Alps and beyond for inspiration for...

Every so often a song comes along - and no matter how many times you play it - ten, a hundred, a thousand - it gives you that strange,...

I know there's been a bit of Crowded House love-in on here over the last month or two, with a live review and a belated look at their...

Ah yes - the 'land of plenty' as Men At Work famously referred to Australia - and it is a country that has certainly (groan) produced...

8 June 2022 - The Roundhouse (Chalk Farm, London) The wait to see Crowded House again lasted 28 years in the end (it would have been only...

This is one that has been out for a while, but I finally got around to buying it recently, ahead of our delayed trip to London to see...

So, apparently it is 'Album Title Track Day' or something like that - at least that's what it said in a Pixies tweet today. Well, whether...