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 9, 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...
Oct 2, 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 27, 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 18, 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 11, 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...
Sep 4, 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 28, 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 21, 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 14, 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...
Aug 11, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: TELLING THE STORY
Local lockdowns and concerns about a second wave of coronavirus have scuppered plans to slowly reintroduce live music in front of...
Aug 7, 2020
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: RECOMMEND A FRIEND
As one with an innate suspicion about algorithms and their effects on modern living, I usually don’t pay too much attention to...
Jul 31, 2020
