

- Jul 15, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: AT GLASTONBURY 2022 - PART ONE
So, what was different about this year’s Glastonbury Festival? More people – arguably at times too many people – rigid blister-inducing...


- Jul 8, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
This week I ‘are been mostly bogged down with trying to write some kind of report about Glastonbury 2022. Expect it sometime next week as...


- Jul 1, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: LATEST SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
A mini Fifty3 Fridays today as I work on my Glastonbury Festival report which should now be posted in the coming week; a ducks not quite...


- Jun 22, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GLASTONBURY CALLING
Fifty3 Fridays is two days early this week as we preview this week’s Glastonbury Festival. I am leaving early Thursday morning with the...


- Jun 17, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ULLO JOHN! GOTTA NEW MOTOR?
This week I ‘are been mostly contemplating the creeping commerciality of music festivals. Actually, that’s not strictly true, any of it,...


- Jun 3, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT
This week’s Fifty3 Fridays is somewhat of a bumper issue with no less than nine songs to lay before you plus last month’s Playlist. We...


- May 27, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOM
So, this week let’s start by raising a glass to that amazing supporter of new music through many channels including Fresh On The Net and...


- May 20, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: LIVE AFTER COVID
After 10 days or so locked away with Covid, it was nice to see a single red line on the LFT so that I was allowed out to attend...


- May 13, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THAT DAY AGAIN
Today being Friday the Thirteenth gives me yet another opportunity to bring that wonderful word that simply rolls off the tongue -...


- May 6, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: SUNSHINE ON LEITH
In a week when the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Final took place and Michael Eavis was given the Freedom of Glastonbury in recognition of...


- Apr 29, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: TWITTER OUTRAGE
This week’s Fifty3 Fridays includes some names that will be familiar to any who happen by this column on a regular basis. If that’s you,...


- Apr 22, 2022
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: I LOVE LUCY
I’ll resist the temptation to rant again this week despite more nonsense from our government, Tottenham’s 1-0 defeat at the weekend and...