Playlist: University + 30
It is hard to believe, but somewhere around this day thirty years ago (yes, really), I attended my university graduation ceremony! I...
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jamesgeraghty
May 18
Playlist: Something Fruity
Most songs written have fallen into one theme or another - there have been songs about love, day and night, good and bad, life and...
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jamesgeraghty
Apr 30
Playlist: A to Z of the 1980s
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...
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jamesgeraghty
Feb 18
It's Just A Trick Of The Light: Great Songsmiths From The South
For some reason, I have always struggled to get to grips with poetry, which is perhaps somewhat strange considering the passion I have...
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jamesgeraghty
Nov 3, 2023
Playlist: Day Of The Dead
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...
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jamesgeraghty
Sep 5, 2023
Geography Playlist 4: Australia
Following on from the 'hidden' treasure trove of Australian songwriters you may not know... Here is my (somewhat) definitive Aussie...
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jamesgeraghty
Aug 6, 2023
Playlist: Ultimate 90s
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...
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jamesgeraghty
May 27, 2023
Neil Finn at 65
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...
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jamesgeraghty
Apr 4, 2023
Playlist: Italy
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...
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jamesgeraghty
Oct 9, 2022
The Goosebumps Playlist
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,...
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jamesgeraghty
Aug 1, 2022
Classic Album: Crowded House by Crowded House
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...
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jamesgeraghty
Jul 1, 2022
Playlist: Songs from the land of plenty!
Ah yes - the 'land of plenty' as Men At Work famously referred to Australia - and it is a country that has certainly (groan) produced...
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jamesgeraghty
Jun 9, 2022
Crowded House
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...
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jamesgeraghty
May 30, 2022
'Dreamers Are Waiting' by Crowded House
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...
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jamesgeraghty
May 23, 2022
Album Title Track Day
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...
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