

- Dec 3, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE ROADS WE TRAVEL
It has always struck me that songwriting is much like a journey. There’s a linear progression running through a song through which the...


- Nov 26, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: STORMY WEATHER
As Britain braces itself for a weekend of inclement weather as Storm Arwen heads for the UK bringing with it 75mph gales and by...


- Nov 19, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: ARE YOU AWAKE YET?
Are you awake yet? Then let us begin. On Tuesday night I was among an enthusiastic crowd at The Bedford in downtown Balham (gateway to...


- Nov 12, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: COP OUT
Today marks the close of the COP26 climate summit; a COP being a Conference of the Parties and the parties being all nation states that...


- Nov 5, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: 100 NOT OUT
Today marks the 100th post on this website. A small milestone maybe but one that still makes you think about how much good music is put...


- Oct 29, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEW
At the end of a month of Fifty3 Fridays largely devoted to live music, it’s back to the recorded variety today. Forgiving the ever so...


- Oct 22, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: REACH FOR THE FOIL HAT
It’s one of those occasions when I realise that travelling to distant lands, well County Durham, Cheshire and Derbyshire, is incompatible...


- Oct 15, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: CUT THE CHAT
The last couple of Fifty3 Fridays have seen the focus switched towards live music, whose welcome return is tempered by a nagging doubt...


- Oct 8, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: BEDFORD BLISS
A deviation from the usual F3F format this week as we focus on a review of a spectacular evening in South-west London on 30 September at...


- Oct 1, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: SAVING THE WORLD, ONE SONG AT A TIME
To paraphrase Jesse from The Fast Show, this week I are mostly listening to live music. Well, not quite, but then attending two gigs in...


- Sep 24, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY
First aired in February 2018, I stumbled across a repeat of For One Night Only in last Friday’s TV schedules; a live studio event to mark...


- Sep 17, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: FRESHLY SERVED
Last Saturday we remembered the twentieth anniversary of 9/11; a descriptor that doesn’t feel right in so tragic a context. If you ever...