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 18, 2022
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 11, 2022
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 doing a ‘Where are they now’ feature now and again and began making a list of people I had not heard from in a very long time. One such name is Martin Carter & Graham Jones , a contemporary folk duo who I first met at Poynton Folk Club when a callow sixth former. I followed them for several years, through university and my first job in Lond
Nov 4, 2022
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 28, 2022
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 21, 2022
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 14, 2022
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...
Oct 7, 2022
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 30, 2022
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 23, 2022
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 16, 2022
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...
Sep 2, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: WHERE DO I START?
I often like to begin this column with a little putting the world to rights in the time-honoured tradition of grumpy old persons but when...
Aug 26, 2022
