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
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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
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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
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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
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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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As I’m a big fan of Stone Foundation and have followed their progress since they released “Small Town Soul” back in 2008, I’m going to start this review with a personal observation… Although Paul Weller produced, wrote for and sang on Stone Foundation’s 2016 album “Street Rituals”, and has been involved to varying degrees with
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So, here we are again with the annual rambling bollocks of a man barely in touch with reality, let alone the ability to string a coherent sentence together. You may have noticed that the rampant success of COVID19 in 2020 has been a bit of a pisser on so many levels, not least the fact
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For the benefit of the uninitiated, Olivier Popincourt is a stylish French Mod, a musical Anglophile, an accomplished songwriter, and a big fan of Paul Weller. He’s also just released “A Deep Sense Of Happiness”, the follow-up to his 2016 debut, “A New Dimension To Modern Love”. Whilst both albums are rich in melodic, elegantly
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There’s a “thing” doing the rounds on social media when someone asks you to “choose 10 albums that influenced your taste in music – one album per day for 10 consecutive days; no explanations, just album covers”. A nomination is quite flattering as you can share with the world your own sublime choices, however, after
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Virologists are encouraging the public to contact them with any strange symptoms they are experiencing which COULD be associated with COVID19. So far, apart from the telltale cough and fever, it’s emerged that some people have encountered a lack of taste or smell and others have reported a feeling that their whole body is “fizzing”.
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