- Sep 12, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GOOD ENOUGH FOR FOLK
There’s this old chestnut about the guy at the Open Mic night who spends over five minutes in an agonisingly laboured attempt to tune his...
- Sep 3, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A FESTIVAL REVIEW
The iconic Isle of Wight Festival returns to Seaclose Park on 16 – 19 September 2021 after the Covid hiatus put paid to last year’s...
- Aug 27, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: DEATH OF A LEGEND
Musicians truly lost one of their own this week with the sad news that The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts had died at the age of...
- Aug 20, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: DIDN’T SEE IT COMING?
Let’s face it. August hasn’t been a great month. Firstly, the extreme weather patterns threatening across the planet; one person’s flood...
- Aug 13, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: MORTON VALENCE REVISITED
Friday the thirteenth, eh. The last one was back in November and it led me to discover that a morbid fear of this date existed or, not...
- Aug 6, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S A MYSTERY
The power of music to take you back to an event or simply a moment in time should never be understated. As one who finds it tricky with...
- Jul 30, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GET A HAT
So, if you want to get ahead, get a hat. The imagery and sentiments in that newspaper ad from 1949 may be very much of their time but...
- Jul 23, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: NEVER FORGET
On Wednesday, we went to see the elephants in London’s Green Park; yes, just round the corner from the tube station, down by the side of...
- Jul 16, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: SELECTIVE VOWEL REDUCTION SYNDROME
Having had a career of sorts in marketing, at times I fret about the ethics of trying to convince folk that they need something they can...
- Jul 9, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS
Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four at the front, one's gone home for...
- Jul 2, 2021
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: A CORNISH TALE OR TWO
The daughter of a Sudanese astrophysicist and a Scottish diplomat, Eliza Shaddad, has a cosmopolitan background having honed her language...
- Jun 25, 2021
GENESIS: STRICTLY COME FOXTROT
Travelling home from Devon today so Fifty3 Fridays should return in its regular guise next week. Meanwhile here is a diversion, but a...