

- Sep 24, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY
First aired in February 2018, I stumbled across a repeat of For One Night Only in last Friday’s TV schedules; a live studio event to mark...


- Sep 17, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: FRESHLY SERVED
Last Saturday we remembered the twentieth anniversary of 9/11; a descriptor that doesn’t feel right in so tragic a context. If you ever...


- Sep 12, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GOOD ENOUGH FOR FOLK
There’s this old chestnut about the guy at the Open Mic night who spends over five minutes in an agonisingly laboured attempt to tune his...


- Sep 3, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A FESTIVAL REVIEW
The iconic Isle of Wight Festival returns to Seaclose Park on 16 – 19 September 2021 after the Covid hiatus put paid to last year’s...