I know there have been too many posts about comics in a short time– it is just how the music, and what it reminds me of, come up. When I was a comic loving child and teenager the idea of there being comic shops was almost as outlandish as costumer superheroes. The most famous wasContinue reading “Sing it with me, just for today”
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I saw a welcoming light
How real is the world we see? I mean how much of it have we really experienced and how much have we experienced only via television or cinema? When I was a child the sight of Spider-man swinging past the Statue of Liberty was not incongruous. At ten years old New York City was justContinue reading “I saw a welcoming light”
The City was sticky and cruel
I have been on both ends of redundancy. When I made people redundant while I was working in the insolvency team it seemed unreal – I was living a charmed life where my career was just on the rise. This came to a shuddering halt when Grant Thornton made me redundant. This despite a boomingContinue reading “The City was sticky and cruel”
If you’re so anti-fashion why not wear flares, instead of dressing down all the same?
Dexy’s Midnight Runners. Their first album is a brass based extravaganza called Searching For The Young Soul Rebels. This was not my kind of music in 1980. Dexy’s reinvented themselves and their second album was much more violin based, its most well-known track is Come On Eileen (several people have asked me why it isContinue reading “If you’re so anti-fashion why not wear flares, instead of dressing down all the same?”
As the traffic’s slowing down
It is different driving in the country from driving in the city. I wonder if that is part of the reason that different music is preferred in rural and urban environments. Driving along in good weather on an open road maybe favours rock music? That is not to say it is always easy outside LondonContinue reading “As the traffic’s slowing down”
The spirit dance was unfolding
Who was the most talented Beatle? Received wisdom says that it was John Lennon, but Jim Smith (a very smart man I know from online fora) made an impassioned case for Paul McCartney in an internet group that I was part of. The easy answer is not Ringo. Famously when asked if Ringo was theContinue reading “The spirit dance was unfolding”
Will someone turn the light on
Insolvency work can have its scary moments. In January 1992 Grant Thornton were appointed as administrators of a group of companies that ran several amusement arcades in Clacton -on-Sea and Walton-on-Sea. The companies were owned by an ex-Traveller family, whose patriarch treated it as an extension of his private bank account. The group comprised sixContinue reading “Will someone turn the light on”
Thank you for that almost heavenly time
My parents had Mike and me young. Mum was 20 and Dad 22 when I was born (22 and 24 for Mike). My parents were also born to young parents, though not quite as young as that due to the Second World War. This meant that my grandparents were relatively young when I was bornContinue reading “Thank you for that almost heavenly time”
We had joy, we had fun
Another embarrassing one about one of my friends. There are lots of tracks that remind me of John Hawkins, but they have other subjects to write about. I think that John is underestimated by a lot of people. John is quieter than the rest of our group (though that does not say much as theContinue reading “We had joy, we had fun”
Blackness, blackness draggin’ me down
There was one other source of borrowing music at university besides the town library and the College record library. The Union Society record library. It was in a pretty sorry state, obviously money was not being spent on it and most of the stock was some fairly poor-quality cassettes. Still, Dave Carter and I foundContinue reading “Blackness, blackness draggin’ me down”
Five Miles Out 