
- Jun 18, 2021
AL STEWART: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE REVISITED
A short staycation in Devon beckons today and so we are taking a break from regular Fifty3 Fridays, the land of new music and most things...

- Jun 11, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: BETTER DAYS
So, we have good days, we have bad days. Today is already shaping up to be a better day, courtesy of that one-man indie hit machine and...

- Jun 4, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: CARRYING THE BATON
Over the past decade Little Majorette, the musical pseudonym of English singer songwriter Zoe Durrant, has taken different paths after...

- Jun 2, 2021
TRACK BY TRACK: THE YEAR YOU’LL NEVER GET BACK BY PAPER ANTHEM
Paper Anthem is the musical vehicle of Fayetteville, Arkansas singer, musician and songwriter Joseph Hitchcock. You may recall me...

- May 28, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: MAKING UP THE NUMBERS
Happy anniversary! Recalling that I started Fifty3 Fridays exactly one year ago this day, it makes today the Fifty3rd Friday. At this...

- May 21, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IN ALICE’S FOOTSTEPS
The character of Alice has endured since her story first began in 1862 by an Oxford mathematician entertaining a friend’s children on a...

- May 14, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: AND THE WINNER IS
Confession time. Just as I tend to lap up successive TV talent shows and even the dear old Eurovision Song Contest, I also follow The...

- May 7, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE 8TH OF MAY
A friendly PR tells me that tomorrow is the 8th of May, a day when we celebrate the loudest day of the year, MOTÖRHEAD DAY! Just shout...

- Apr 30, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
Searching for a theme to marry some outwardly disparate songs together, it’s strange how odd lyrics seem to spring to mind. Today I...

- Apr 23, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S A KINDA MAGIC
OK, so we try to bring you a little bit of magic every Friday with a selection of great songs you may not have heard before, largely from...

- Apr 16, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: AUTOTUNED TO PERFECTION
Did anyone watch I Can See Your Voice, the BBC show where singers are judged on appearance first by a panel of what these days are...

- Apr 9, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: UPSIDE LOCKDOWNING
Rubbish. Actually, it’s the most dispiriting thing so far about this gradual easing of lockdown. I’m talking about people trashing the...