music

I’ve got a spare ticket to Royal Blood at Brixton Academy tonight. Free to a good home.

Hi all, I know there are some music lovers in this here forum. My usual gig buddies are being flaky, but I have two spare tickets (seated) to Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer at the O2 tomorrow night. Can’t vouch for the company ;-) but shout if you’d like one or both.

……I attended my first ever gig. I don’t plan on stopping going to them any time soon either. ;)

Very sad news to hear that The Stranglers keyboards virtuoso passed away last night. He was in hospital for heart problems and contracted Covid-19. Personally gutted with this news having been a Stranglers fan since the beginning of their career and have seen them live 63 times between 1977 and...

Just read this 'The road will kill you': why older musicians are cancelling tours as well has taken delivery for one of the Glasgow dates on The Stranglers 'final full UK tour'. Mr C was wise taking a 40 year break from touring :) to staging his rejuvenated comeback tour.

So much good music. Here are my three suggestions. 1. Nick Cave - Ghosteen. Cave has changed since losing his son. If the last album seemed bleak, this one whilst seeming to address loss, does have hope. It has been said that you need to be able to handle genuine anguish to listen to it, though...

I'm planning to upload and buy a collection of classical music to my hard-drive for playing via a streamer. It's likely that I will use a number of different streaming devices, each of which have their own apps for choosing music. However, they all essentially look at the "tags" on the music...

Any current or former DJs out there? I've just started Tango DJing. At the moment just using a pre-prepared playlist but planning on using specialist DJ software. As I am on Linux it is Mixxx software.

Disappeared down a Wikipedia rabbit hole the other day and discovered Al Stewart's Down in the Cellar: Apparently featuring such unforgettable numbers as "Waiting for Margaux" and "The Shiraz Shuffle". It got me thinking - if anyone could put together a vinous playlist, it would be the...