

FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S THE GLASTONBURY ETC 2024 LONGLIST
Glastonbury Festival has announced the 90 acts through to the longlist from the many thousands who entered its Emerging Talent...
Mar 19, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GLASTONBURY 2024 LINE-UP REVEALED
On Wednesday Glastonbury Festival announced its headliners along with a goodly selection of other main stage performers. Cue the endless...
Mar 15, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: LIVE AT INDIGO AT THE O2
Another day, another venue. For the second week running Fifty3Fridays focuses on live music this time coming to you from Indigo at the...
Mar 1, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: LIVE AT THE OTHER PALACE
A short hop from Buckingham Palace lies The Other Palace Theatre, the venue for an intimate performance last Friday evening by native...
Feb 23, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: TRUST JESSE
This week I ‘are mostly been listening to new music. When I can’t think of a ready route into this weekly column, I am prone to...
Feb 17, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: LIVE AT THE BEDFORD
February 1st was of course the day before Groundhog Day – now, where did I read that before? I have Sid & Doris Rocker of Neasden to...
Feb 10, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S GROUNDHOG DAY
February 2nd is of course Groundhog Day, an event popularised by the 1993 movie though it dates back to 1887. I have been trying to watch...
Feb 2, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GLASTONBURY 2024 EMERGING TALENT COMPETITION LAUNCH
Glastonbury Festival’s annual Emerging Talent Competition, once more supported by PRS for Music and PRS Foundation, is back for 2024. The...
Jan 26, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: SOUND LOUNGE SAVED
With grassroots live music venues under increasing threat from spiralling costs and reports that we are losing one a week, it is...
Jan 19, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: TALENT WILL OUT
Last week’s Fifty3 Fridays floated the idea of commercially successful musicians breaking open the piggy bank to help save a struggling...
Jan 12, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ADOPT A LIVE MUSIC VENUE
Photo of Stuart Murdoch from his Twitter account Got any good ideas? Inbetween-mas is sometimes good for inspiration. I’ll give you fifty...
Jan 5, 2024


FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: 2023 AND ALL THAT
It is time to look back on 2023, not that I hold any affection for much of it. It has been a shitshow politically, economically,...
Dec 29, 2023