Released in October 2024, If You Love Them, Let Them Go is from Johnny Lloyd’s fourth studio album, Punchline (image inset), which came out on 31 January 2025. The record centres on love, heartbreak and the difficult act of moving…
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16/02/26 – 22/02/26 – Willie Colón / Former Prince Andrew
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. It feels strange to place the names of Willie Colón and former Prince Andrew side by side in a single title. Colón is mentioned…
Took The Children Away (1990) – Archie Roach
I first heard about Archie through my guitar player, Steve Connolly, who’d seen him on a TV show called Blackout and said, “You gotta hear this guy.” We wanted to do something special for our Hamer Hall show in 1990…
Tagged with: archie roach, charcoal lane, David Bridie, paul kelly, stolen generaton, took the children away
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Solid Ground (2024) – Gaby Moreno
So there I was the other day watching a film, and during the ads I did what I often do – a bit of channel hopping. My last stop is usually the film & arts channel. There I landed on…
This is England (2006) – Shane Meadows (Friday’s Finest)
This Is England is a historical fiction coming-of-age drama set in Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s England. It centres on a troubled 12-year-old boy, Shaun, who lives with his widowed mother, Cynthia, in the East Midlands of England. Both are trying to…
Tagged with: Ludovico Einaudi, Shane Meadows, Stephen Graham, this is england
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
It Never Rains (1982) – Dire Straits
It Never Rains is another long rock epic for which Dire Straits became known. It follows a familiar pattern: a slow, spacious opening built around piano and organ chords, then a gradual build toward extended guitar work near the end.…
Before We Were Free (2002) – Julia Alvarez
My Wednesday literature segment returns, featuring an excerpt from Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez, which I finished reading yesterday. If you enjoy dabbling in books, feel free to join me on Goodreads [here]. My reading has been slow…
Tagged with: before we were free, dictatorship, Dominican Republic, Julia Alvarez, Rafael Trujillo
Posted in Reading
Posted in Reading
After the Gold Rush (1970) – Neil Young
After the Gold Rush is a moving piano ballad and the title track from Young’s third studio album. Not to take anything away from some of Neil Young’s more epic and guitar-driven songs, but I have always found that when…
Northern Star (1999) – Melanie C
My favourite Spice Girl is back after a short break. Known as Mel C (Sporty Spice) in the Spice Girls, she records as Melanie C as a solo artist. The last song I featured here, Never Be the Same Again,…
Too Low For Zero (1983) – Elton John
The title track is not only my number one from the record, but one of my all-time favourite Elton songs. Having my own dips and doubts, I relate to it a lot and I like where it takes me. You…
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