Category Archives: Music

Don’t the trees look like crucified thieves

Posted on 28 March, 2015 by jb

   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0J3ossUzhU 

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Excellent news!

Posted on 9 February, 2015 by jb

Appears that some lad by the name of Sam Smith (possibly a scion of the Tadcaster brewing dynasty?) has taken the Faces’ “Stay with me” and gone and won a Grammmy with it. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer song … Continue reading →

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A little burst of All Right

Posted on 13 January, 2015 by jb

The Eastern is my favourite band by a long way. They hail from Lyttelton, the port city serving Christchurch Christchurch was devastated by 2 major earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 and there have been 13,457 – in words: thirteen thousand … Continue reading →

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“Solid gold shit, my son”

Posted on 30 October, 2014 by jb

Bill Nighy from “Love Actually”

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So beautiful, it hurts….

Posted on 27 October, 2014 by jb

Daniel Lanois plays “JJ leaves L.A” in a concert in Australia. Such an unassumingly shy, humungously talented man. Saw him in concert with Black Dub and Trixie Whitley a couple of years back. Mind blowing

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“Still, a bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load of money, I mean, the best one died years ago!”

Posted on 1 July, 2014 by jb
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Pure anarchy

Posted on 28 June, 2014 by jb

Love this 1978 BBC David Lindley concert. He’s still putting on his finger picks at 0:16, comes in at 0:40 and takes over until he brings it down to segue into “These Days” Quite a good singer, too. Jackson Browne’s … Continue reading →

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Never let you go

Posted on 17 June, 2014 by jb

I’ve liked the band Evermore since I stumbled over the clip they donated for Shave for a Cure. Not being very sure on my feet, I fortunately tripped over this. Ace song, even acerer video

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 27 May 2014

Posted on 27 May, 2014 by jb

WLIR concert – Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, John Hammond and Freebo live at the Ultra-Sonic Studios, Hempstead, NY 17 October 1972 [Listen] Love me like a man Under the falling sky Love has no pride Going down to Louisiana Can’t … Continue reading →

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 13 May 2014. A Feat Treat

Posted on 13 May, 2014 by jb

Or… If you like country with a boogie beat Russell Brown, a journalist who runs the excellent Public Address website, was – in an earlier life -Deputy Editor of Rip It Up, a free 1970s music newspaper in New Zealand. … Continue reading →

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