Back in the day I saw Avenue Q twice, once in London, once in Edinburgh. It was hilarious and a good time was had by all. Relistening to the songs on their own, 17 years later and…
Billy Bragg: Back to Basics
I’ve started transferring our cassette tapes to digital – since we don’t have a tape player any more they are basically sitting in drawers decaying slowly. One of the first tapes had a whole bunch of Billy Bragg tracks which prompted me to pick up Back to Basics, a compilation of his first three releases.
There’s a joy after listening to loads of new music to stumbling across older classics lying around. I’m not sure I’ve ever listened to Blood Sugar Sex Magik since High School, when I was not a fan, thought it was shit, to be honest.
Asthmatic Astronaut: Spirit World
For reasons undefined I’ve decided to start the blogging again, with a wee bit of musical recommendations and commentary. Then because it’s the start of the year I’ve not done much music yet, so we’re off to a bit of a funny start.