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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Marc Johns, artist profile...

Friday, May 04, 2012

Music Music – Your Ways (a song)...

Music is a gift
To grow as you feel
Blessings to uplift
Drama to give and heal
Soothing to the ears
With its soul
Misty in thoughts – it clears!
And never grows ol'

Somebody is playing
Day to a day song
With sounds never staying
In their silences for too long
Every love it finds
Gives a comfort to each click
Hope of two combines
With its emotional wick

It can be so powerful
It can be so passionate in its tone
Sometimes moments dull
Will make it quite alone
It’s for everyone to listen
Giving comfort to heal
Waves of blessings and glisten
Now and again quite so unreal

Peter S. Quinn

turntables...

So being a self confessed audiophile and recently having bought
a Rega RP3 (the red one below), i thought i'd show you readers
the shear beauty and simplicity of one of the world's greatest
creations. Vinyl is here to stay...

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Big Mama Thornton live...

Monday, April 23, 2012

old is new...

Here's the fashion forecast for the winter months.
It's time to get back to nature people, let your
inner tree hugger dance free and get your hair looking
a wee bit more natural.
monkmenagerie declares that it's time for nature to
fight back! Let your colour stand out with a style
that has solid lines, mix the old with the new and
just remember no one does colour better than Mother
Nature...

Thursday, April 12, 2012

mini homes...

Seriously who really needs a monsterous prison sized
home when there is only one or two of you living under
the same roof! Cut down on cleaning costs and look to
the homes of the future... Live mini!

Sunday, April 08, 2012

Tindersticks, The Something Rain...album review

Thank God for the Tindersticks! A band that you can honestly
say conform to no persons ideas but their own, and after reforming
a few years back have finally released an album that lives up
to their almost spiritual first. The Tindersticks have their
drive back, they still make beautiful music and no one can
deny their musical chops but there is an intensity to 'The
Something Rain' that hasn't been present in their previous few
outings. Stuart A. Staples is singing with the darkness in
his soul and i think the new band members have finally
understood what makes him tick! Few bands achieve the melancholic
dread that appears in this mini masterpiece, it kind of reminds
me of Nick Cave's Let Love In and that's a huge pat on the back.
What more can i say than to compare them to the great man's
seminal masterpiece... Sit back, turn it up loud, pour yourself
a nice red and be swept away in the joyous darkness that is the
Tindersticks returning to fine form.