- 3 days ago
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: A BLESSED SPACE
Next time you find yourself in a matt black painted brick box room with the PA straining to hit 11 and the sound engineer being harangued...
- Nov 18
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: BETTER LATE
There are weeks when it all runs like clockwork – actually, not that many of those – and weeks when the wheels fall off. This has been...
- Nov 11
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET
There are times when not being on Facebook or Instagram presents a bit of a problem. It is when those sites are the only way of possibly...
- Nov 4
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: A BRIEF LOOK BACK IN TIME
To paraphrase Jesse from The Fast Show, this week I ‘are mostly been playing detective. So, the story so far: I was thinking about maybe...
- Oct 28
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: BEST DAY OF MY LIFE
Well, Tuesday may not have been the best day of my life but it did come with an unusually nice surprise. Before Tuesday evening I could...
- Oct 21
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE COACH HAS NOW LEFT
With Liz Truss lasting exactly as long as Brian Clough did at Leeds United in 1974, you may be forgiven for wondering which departure...
- Oct 14
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: CALL MY LEXICON
Apropos of nothing, I may have a degree in English but I still have to look up words in the dictionary. Actually, I studied Medieval...
- Oct 7
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ANDREW MAXWELL MORRIS - TRACK BY TRACK
A variation to the customary F3F format today as we focus on the new album from Surrey-based troubadour, Andrew Maxwell Morris. I wrote...
- Sep 30
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: COST OF LIVE CRISIS
From pandemic closures to limits on audiences to liberation once more, live music has had a rollercoaster ride over the past two and a...
- Sep 23
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: I READ THE NEWS TODAY
Oh boy. A day in the life hardly goes by without me reading the news. I thought of The Beatles 1967 opus “A Day in the Life”, a seminal...
- Sep 16
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: A SENSE OF PASSING
Whatever individual feelings might be about the monarchy, there is no doubt that we have all shared a sense of history, past and present...
- Sep 2
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: BLUE ON BLUE
Time being somewhat at a premium as we prepare to head off for a week’s holiday in Norfolk, it’s a slightly shorter than usual...