It is not often you come across a Gaelic rapper, a musician in 1970s knitted jumper surfing a crowd in an inflatable boat, and, well, The Beach Boys. But it does happen. This year’s Cropredy festival (officially Fairport’s Cropredy Convention) […]
It is not often you come across a Gaelic rapper, a musician in 1970’s knitted jumper surfing a crowd in an inflatable boat, and, well, The Beach Boys. But it does happen. This year’s Cropredy festival (officially Fairport’s Cropredy Convention) […]
“You ask the average person what a bass is, or what a bass sounds like, and most of the time, they don’t know. But remove the bass from any piece of music and suddenly it becomes the largest missing piece […]
The Woodstock and Monterey Pop films offer quite a flash from the past, but if you want to know how much and how fast the culture changed during the sixties, step back just a few more years and watch The […]
Each week in this column a musician points to the best or most influential concert attended as a spectator. But what was the best concert album ever released? The unofficial crown may have rested for many years with the Last […]
The story of legendary guitar-slinger Dave Edmund’s artistic arc is one of exaltation, enrichment, and grand evolution. It isn’t every musician’s journey. But it is Dave’s, and a superb and admirable one it is. In the 1970s and 1980s, he […]
