The great German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, once wrote: “Without music, life would be a mistake”. He is, of course, absolutely correct. Then again, he’d never heard a Whigfield record…
In early 2022, despite much guffawing and hilarity from people who know my speaking voice is a little less beautiful than Richard Burton’s, I recorded the first “The Acoustic Egg Box Radio Show”. Although I’ve always been fanatical about music, in 1979 everything changed. I left school and turned 16 that year, but, more importantly, …
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“Don’t use cliches”, they say in the “how-to-write-better” manuals, however, hasn’t the year flown by: you’re looking well: haven’t you grown! They say time accelerates as you get older and, worryingly, as I’m about to enter a “milestone” birthday year, it appears that Lewis Hamilton has jumped into my personal cockpit and is now hurtling …
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I started these “Egg Box Essentials” features last year with the full intention of writing one a month to highlight any interesting titbits I’d heard, watched or read. The two I did put out before a foggy, pandemic-induced malaise robbed me of inspiration, were both well received, and so, armed with a renewed (and hopefully …
THE OBLIGATORY INTRODUCTION A warm welcome to readers old, new and indifferent to the annual Acoustic Egg Box Top 30 Albums Of The Year. Yes, it’s late as always (my blog, my deadlines…) and I’d dearly love to say “better late than never”, but unfortunately it’s as ramshackle, inaccurate and subject to ridicule as ever. …
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It’s November already! How the hell did that creep up on us so soon… Around about now, us country folk start foraging in the hedgerows for nuts, berries and roadkill to see us through the winter. It’s also the time when my thoughts turn to compiling The Acoustic Egg Box Top 30 Albums Of The …
Fucking Hell, Sean! To give this blog post some context, as we get a few deliveries each month from DPD, they’ve been pestering me to download their new, all-singing, all-dancing app. Anyway, I downloaded the app, updated my details, and gave clear instructions that deliveries should be left in the shed in my back garden …
I cried after the final whistle blew tonight. I didn’t cry because of the result (cos after what seems like 100 odd years I’m used to England being gallant losers), but because I saw an inconsolable Bukayo Saka being embraced by his family and friends, and I knew what was going to happen next. Just …
In these plague-ridden times when we are now all desperately longing for a return to normality as soon as possible, life’s small wins have become momentous events. One of those momentous events was lolloping through a month with just 28 days in it – a full 2 or 3 days less enforced hermitage than the …
Despite locking myself away in a room for weeks along with piles of records, CDs and hundreds of scraps of paper, I always love compiling my end-of-year Top 30 album chart. The 2020 effort proved especially worthwhile. All the messages, comments and feedback I’ve received since its publication have been genuinely inspiring. Of course, this …
