Ian Pople

The Acoustic Egg Box Radio Show – Episode 1: MY Mod Revival – Where Did It All Start?

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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2022 – The Acoustic Egg Box Top 30 Albums Of The Year

“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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2021 – The Acoustic Egg Box Top 30 Albums Of The Year

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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Egg Box Essentials – January 2021 Review

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 …

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