- Oct 23, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: KEEPING UP
How faithful are you? Keeping up with musicians whose work you love is always the intention but less often the reality. The ephemeral...
- Oct 16, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: NICE TO SEE YOU
While it is undoubtedly uplifting to uncover new music from artistes often entirely new to you each week, it is equally a pleasure to...
- Oct 9, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GET HAPPY
Forget your troubles, come on get happy. So goes the song from the 1930’s made famous by Judy Garland in the fifties while David Cassidy...
- Oct 2, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: A WHOLE NEW SLANT
Fashions and styles in music come and go. Some you’d love to see the back of and some you’d love to see back. This week’s Fifty3 Fridays...
- Sep 27, 2020
YES: CLOSE TO THE EDGE 48 YEARS ON
Taking a break from regular Fifty3 Fridays, new music and three-minutes singles, this week we revisit an album from the glory days of...
- Sep 18, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: AND THEN THERE WERE SIX
Isn’t it ironic, Alanis? The new limit of six people able to meet socially – at least in England; don’t get me started on Scotland, Wales an
- Sep 11, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: A FILM ABOUT A BAND
From Amadeus to Walk the Line, Bohemian Rhapsody to Sid & Nancy, musician biopics tend to go in and out of vogue; a big one comes along...
- Sep 4, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE PARLEMENT OF FOULES
With apologies to The Fast Show’s Jesse, this week I have been mostly pondering collective nouns for birds. Our winged friends do have...
- Aug 28, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: HOW WAS YOUR LOCKDOWN?
As we approach the corner of the calendar that leads into autumn, there does seem to be one dividend of living through a pandemic; there...
- Aug 21, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Whether it’s that time-honoured artistic desire to hide behind a persona, an absence of affection for the birth name or just plain...
- Aug 14, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: CHRISTMAS IS COMING
It wasn’t all that long ago that people used to sidle up to you and say “winter is coming” and, fully armed with the expectation that you...
- Aug 11, 2020
IT’S CROPREDY BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT
This rather dumb headline, channelling as it does a Star Trek misquote – I blame The Firm – heralds a rather splendid event curated by...