Us Brits have a real fascination with the white stuff that graces our temperate shores for a couple of days a year each winter; Facebook was full of comments this morning saying things like "Snow", "OMG it's Snowing" and "Snowing outside!!!" It appeared to be that everyone temporarily forgot how inane these comments were as the excitement of a pitiful flurry of the white stuff got the better of all rational thinking.
It's understandable ...
A friend of mine sent me an email earlier today with a couple links from a Radio 4 programme called Mastertapes, interviews with Paul Weller followed by a question and answer session about the final Jam album The Gift, which was released in the Spring of 1982 to mixed reviews from fans more used to a lead and bass guitar and a set of drums accompanied by raw and aggressive anti-establishment vocals. Paul Weller had license to experiment ...
One of the key aspects of being divorced is that when it happens to someone you know, you have to expect them to come to you for advice, it comes with the territory as it is natural for an individual to seek solace from someone who has been through it and arrived out of the other side.
I don’t actually mind to be honest, it is all a distant memory for me now, but offering advice to someone through the early stages of this bereavement ...
As a follow up to my favourite ever song list that was compiled for my eldest son and anyone else who was interested, I thought what would be far more entertaining would be a WORST ever song list, an eclectic mix of spine tingling, vomit inducing dross that will have you all sprinting for the sick bucket or simply staving in your computer with your right boot before remorsefully handing over five hundred quid to a care in the community teenager ...
My eldest son asked me the other day something I regard as the impossible question...
"What's your favourite song of all time?"
How on earth do you answer that unless you are one of these people who thinks Adele or some cover 'artist' from X Factor is the best singer in the history of time? Sadly a lot of excellent modern bands are having careers wrecked by the Simon Cowell generation of "McDonalds Music" which is easy to consume but ...