Tag: Music

50 years of Pet Sounds and Brian Wilson on tour

Monday 16th May 2016 was the 50th Anniversary of Pet Sounds, an album most people aged 35 upwards have in their music library. It has touched the lives of generations, it is critically rated by many…

Interview with Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading, MBE and more importantly - according to her - (BA Hons) has won the coveted Ivor Novello Award, been nominated three times for a Grammy and twice for a Brit, written over 20…

Listen to this - interview with Squarepusher and Charles Hazlewood

'Listen to this' set to “engage, inspire and excite and generally blow the mind of the entire audience that come and witness it” (Charles Hazlewood) 2011 saw massive cuts to the arts budget in Croydon…

Burroughs birthed the term 'heavy metal'

Ever wondered where bands find the inspiration for their names? I stumbled across a site which detailed the origin of band names and found these: '90's band Gin Blossoms name derived from late 1800's "slang…

'Aspiring musicians need to Work hard and play hard' - Interview with Mark Chadwick of The Levellers

I caught up with The Levellers Mark Chadwick to ask him some questions prior to his gig at Scream Studios, Croydon.  1.  As a struggling musician you did a bit of busking, how did you…
Everybody's life has a soundtrack

Everybody's life has a soundtrack

So its  20 years since Nirvana released Nevermind - that makes me feel REALLY old. 1991/2 were great years for music and coincided with the years when I was leaving school and going to sixth form - fresh in the…
How Myspace saved my life

How Myspace saved my life

MySpace gets a slamming these days (not unfairly) but I first fell in love with Social Media in 2004 when MySpace saved my life. At the time I was a Promoter / Booker for a…