Before the storm

Is it strange to be friends with people you were at school with over 30 years since you left school?  A lot of people think so.  To stay close to those people for that long despite moving apart and having families.  How we related changed bit by bit.  During university holidays and after Neil andContinue reading “Before the storm”

With summer at our ears

Once upon a time (and maybe again in the future now the pandemic is in effect) foreign locations were exotic.  In the 1970s and into the 1980s James Bond films were built around filming in foreign locations and beautiful women.  Filming series in the Greek islands in the 1970s  and 80s was the BBC’s ideaContinue reading “With summer at our ears”

In the State of Ecstasy

This song is odd.  It was a hit years after it was made and if you listen carefully you can tell.  One minute and four seconds in there is an instrumental break that is so 1991 that it might as well be flashing up a neon sign flashing – “We are ripping off the Prodigy’sContinue reading “In the State of Ecstasy”

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