Feb 23
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 17
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 10
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 2
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...
Jan 26
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 19
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 12
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 5
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...
Dec 29, 2023
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 22, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE ADVENT CALENDAR REVEALED
It is time to dust off the festive ‘I Love Kingston’ image once again as we approach Christmas Day. Today's Fifty3 Fridays is all about...
Dec 15, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 15
Most weeks Fifty3 Fridays focuses on new music largely from emerging or grassroots artistes and I have a little of that ilk for you...
Dec 9, 2023
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE COVID
Today’s musical fare is all to do with Christmas but like a cold takeaway it is at risk of being served up a tad late. With the Covid...