Today BBC 6 music is making a big fuss about the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album because it was released exactly fifty years ago. Well, how astounding. What a perfect opportunity to celebrate a seminal work of popular culture, apart from the fact that Brian Wilson’s alleged masterwork sounds exactly the same as it didContinue reading “Anniversaries to Forget….”
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The Polyphonic Spree – Live Review – 5/6/2014
I was on route from a meditation class. Sitting with my dharma chums before a golden buddha, I was on the verge of getting somewhere, but I had to cut short the session and catch a more immediate form of transcendence – the Liverpool return of The Polyphonic Spree. If you are a musician, there’sContinue reading “The Polyphonic Spree – Live Review – 5/6/2014”