Opinion - Not a Proper Musical

In which I create a song and dance about Jukebox Musicals ...

PotD - Camille Pissarro

In an occasional series of articles, I hit the Take a Chance button on London's National Gallery website and write about what I see... 

Review - Elbow, Little Fictions

I regularly to listen to some new (to me) music by randomly picking albums to listen to. Today is the turn of Elbow's album Little Fictions...

Opinion - Band(can’t)stand

...or... “the top five bands that everyone else seems to adore but really annoy me and make me switch the radio off” ...

Review - One Soul Thrust

Since Canadian products are, obviously, far superior to their other North American counterparts, here's a reminder of my thoughts from 2015 on my favourite Canadian band's double album Hold the Vision/Trust the Process ...

Opinion - Self Portraits

I discovered a video discussion a while back on unconventional self-portraits thanks to National Galleries of Scotland...

Opinion - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Marking the anniversary of the death of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, here's a reminder of an article I wrote a few years back, looking at some of his best known works...