Category Archives: Music

>The best (and worst) of 1974

Posted on 9 August, 2007 by jb

>Delving around in the murky depths of Bittorent for some Abba (no, they DON’T feature prominently in my record collection..) for the Waterloo post, I stumbled across Billboard’s Top 100 for 1974. #1 was Barbra Streisand with “The way we … Continue reading →

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>Dragons under my bed

Posted on 5 July, 2007 by jb

> BREAKING NEWS It’s Kath’s birthday today. Give her a present – buy her CD. Make her happy. You’ll go to heaven if you do. Kath Bee is a friend of in-a-distant-networked-kind-of-way friends, Meg and Ben Nakagawa in Nelson who … Continue reading →

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Words to music – Tuwhare

Posted on 20 June, 2007 by jb

Take an iconic poet, get some of the country’s top contemporary artists to put the lyrics to music and you’ve got “Tuwhare“, a collection curated by Charlotte Yates and quite a wonderful work of art. Add a video of the … Continue reading →

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>So we sailed up to the sun till we found the sea of green..

Posted on 15 June, 2007 by jb

>In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed to sea.And he told us of his life in the land of submarines.[Listen]

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The Small fucking Who

Posted on 30 May, 2007 by jb

My very first real concert (apart from tagging along with Graham Horne and his band (Jim Partridge, Larry Elliot, Pete Calvert and Roger Hickson) to church socials and going to Surfside in Milford to see a guy called Dennis in … Continue reading →

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>I didn’t meet David Gilmour the other day…

Posted on 29 May, 2007 by jb

>Or…The best record store in the Vaucluse. I didn’t meet David Gilmour the other day. We were at the farmers’ market in Coustellet and Mrs B says “He looks like that aristocratic sounding singer”. I looked at this old farmer … Continue reading →

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>31 songs – The End

Posted on 18 May, 2007 by jb

> Röyksopp? The Avalanches? Soulwax? All good stuff and if it hadn’t been for Nick Hornby, I’d be richer financially and poorer musically. And I hadn’t bought a Patti Smith album at that stage. And I wouldn’t have discovered “Hey … Continue reading →

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>Don’t ask me (about Warren Zevon) – #8

Posted on 14 May, 2007 by jb

>Please do, actually. I bought the eponymous album in 1976 at Virgin’s first (biggish) store at Marble Arch on the basis of a pretty good review in Rolling Stone (that one of the the Lufthansa crew who lived in my … Continue reading →

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>31 songs – Part 5

Posted on 11 May, 2007 by jb

>Not sure about “Puff the Magic Dragon”… Ian Dury can’t put a foot wrong, as far as I’m concerned.And it’s tragic that he’s only really known for “Hit me with for rhythm stick” and “Sex and drugs and rock’n’roll.” Billericay … Continue reading →

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>31 songs – Part 4

Posted on 4 May, 2007 by jb

>This set is why I like Nick Hornby. OK, they’re 5 songs that would grace anyone’s mixtape. But there’s more. He writes about context. “It’s what happens when people are deified. The eighteenth-century British scholar Edmond Malone calculated that Shakespeare … Continue reading →

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