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Katherine Jenkins
Talent show winner, yet seemingly genuinely talented opera singer type Katherine Jenkins. What excatly was wrong with opera? What's with the covering pop songs now? I heard the Evanessence song first a while back. Since the original featured a rock singer overstretching herself ridiculously anyway it wasn't that bad to hear it being done opera- ( Read more... ) -
We got a Christmas card from Royal Mail....
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What I'm doing here
I’ve been redoing my website recently (some of you have been kind enough to beta test it and provide me with helpful feedback - thanks for that - a new version taking a lot of your criticisms into account is on the way) and since a large part of that has been writing my ‘blurb’ that all these websites seem to have, I’ve had to have a long think ( Read more... ) -
The Phoenix Foundation - Happy Ending
Some of you may have heard me, or Nr Norris, belt on about The Phoenix Foundation - a fantastic New Zealand band tragically unheard of outside their native land. Well, in what I'm interpreting as an attempt to change that ludicrous state of affairs, they've gone and released their current (third) album Happy Ending over here in the UK, so I'm ( Read more... ) -
More from Summer's End - day two
We bundled back to the B&B in Parkend via the prog bus, which was buzzing with a hundred or so people who'd just seen the gig of their lives. tuataralad had thoughtfully put a couple of bottles of Scotch in his luggage, so we sat and had a few drams - the really rather lovely PC8 and the stunning for its age Kilchoan. We talked music, life, the universe and ( Read more... ) -
Advice - couriers
Does anyone have any advice on couriers? I have to send a very large, very fragile painting through the post and I don't really trust Royal Mail with it, especially at the moment.... -
Summer's End - Steve Hackett
About six months ago, the line-up for the annual progressive rock festival Summer’s End was announced. It included Steve Hackett, ex Genesis guitarist and since then one of the most innovative and versatile musicians on the planet who I’ve wanted to see live for as long as I’ve been into prog rock; and Sylvan, a German band who don’t make nearly ( Read more... ) -
To Prog!
And so, the weekend is finally here, when I pack up the kine, pick up apaisleybigfoot , meet up with sphenodon and head down to Lydney in Gloucestershire for a weekend of progtastic fun with the great Steve Hackett (who I've been waiting over ten years to see live), Pallas and Pendragon headlining, plus a bunch of other future favourites in support. There's also a good ( Read more... ) -
Abbey Road resurfaced
It can't have escaped anyone's notice that they've remastered all The Beatles' records. So what, a good proportion of you say, and that's fair enough - they hype has turned even this fan's stomach, so anyone who is either ambivilent or against the music of the mythical Fab Four must be cursing their moptops to Hell by now. I was however alarmed, ( Read more... )
