The Beatles ‘Rubber Soul’ – Album Review
After a couple of weeks away from social media and website duties (a flight back from Australia, a number of lyric projects, a general election and Christmas can quickly eat
Miles Davis ‘Kind of Blue’ – Album Review
After last week’s catch up blog, today I return to my series of classic album reviews with the only instrumental disc in the collection; Miles Davis’ seminal jazz record, ‘Kind
Update from Oz
Recent blog posts have been album reviews of some of my favourite records but for the last 2-3 weeks, I’ve been either traveling in Cambodia or visiting family in Australia
Guillemots ‘Through The Windowpane’ Album Review
Though perhaps one of the lesser-known albums on this list of my 12 favourite albums, ‘Through The Windowpane’ is certainly no less deserving of its place. This 2006 record is
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Damien Rice ‘O’ Album Review
If I had to choose only five artists who had truly been an inspiration on my career as a composer, Damien Rice would undoubtedly be up for inclusion. This despite
An evening with Belle Roscoe…
I’m in France for the week and although I’d planned on spending the week looking at flats, I ended up choosing the very first apartment I visited which has left
A music video and a casual smoker
Before I talk about our recently filmed music video, I’m going to quickly talk about my friend Ben Caplan’s new album. Social Context Music and the arts in general get
The Cat Empire and a new website!
One very useful piece of feedback I’ve received since giving this site a facelift, is that I now have a very professional website full of great clips and music, but
As Robert Plant once said….
As Robert Plant once said… “It’s been a long time.” In his case it was ‘since he rock and rolled.’ In my case it’s ‘since I wrote a blog post
The marathons are over – the work is not…but I love London
Yesterday I ran the London marathon – the second of the ‘two marathons in two weeks’ I had planned to raise money and awareness for two of the fantastic charities
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