- Jun 22
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GLASTONBURY CALLING
Fifty3 Fridays is two days early this week as we preview this week’s Glastonbury Festival. I am leaving early Thursday morning with the hope of catching some of the action on the smaller stages later on in the day. The main stages do not open until Friday lunchtime so it’s a great chance for some grassroots artistes and emerging talents to play to larger audiences than they might expect over the weekend, when the rule of thumb is there will be around five acts on at any one t
- Jun 17
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ULLO JOHN! GOTTA NEW MOTOR?
This week I ‘are been mostly contemplating the creeping commerciality of music festivals. Actually, that’s not strictly true, any of it, but after three hours of staring at a white blank page, I needed something to get this column into gear. While taking a week or so’s break, I did spot that online used car merchants, cinch – trendy lower case for you – was now presenting both this weekend’s Isle of Wight Festival and next month’s Latitude among a clutch (ouch) of other UK mu
- Jun 3
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT
This week’s Fifty3 Fridays is somewhat of a bumper issue with no less than nine songs to lay before you plus last month’s Playlist. We will then be taking a short break, assuming the flight isn’t cancelled, so there will be no edition on 10 June but we hopefully return with lots more good stuff the following Friday. At least that’s the plan, he says, sweating on whether it is really going to rain on our Platinum Jubilee Street Party tomorrow to dampen the return of local cove