On the better to hit-and-run post than not post at all principle ( Read more... )

Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846, from the Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, is probably my favourite piece of music ever ( Read more... )

We've been explaining the genre 'musical' to **FIXME and **TODO. (Sorry, Katy WINLOLJbooklectic, but they did not have a clear conception of it until now, although they have seen several.) With a handful of notable exceptions, musicals are generally not to my taste. I like singing and acting, but much in the same way that I like chocolate and lentils, I ( Read more... )

My current music system doesn't really work right for classical music, which means I listen to less than I want to. The metadata - title, performer, composer, track names, etc - you get automatically from iTunes (or wherever) is absolutely terrible and inconsistent, even within a single 'album', never mind between them. And even when I spend ages ( Read more... )

I'm wanting, yet again, to sort out my media playing at home ( Read more... )

I seem to get my music news a bit late ( Read more... )

We cleared out the garage. There was a vintage Casio keyboard. "The kids will love that!" So I cleaned it up and slapped in some batteries ( Read more... )

I have no musical discernment. I was surfing away, and had some mellow ambient music playing. After a while I started thinking that the voice sample over the top - a rather preachy voice talking about the hazards of warm weather - was (a) not one I recalled hearing before, and (b) surprisingly relevant to the moment given the vintage of the music ( Read more... )

It turns out that Roy Harper, folk/rock guitar legend, is playing a 70th birthday gig at the Royal Festival Hall in London, UK, on Saturday 5th November. Anyone fancy coming along ( Read more... )

Having wondered a bit ages ago about clubbing for my birthday, and had the party, I've suddenly realised that the only weekend I can go clubbing this side of Christmas is next weekend (26/27/28 Nov).  It's all a bit last minute, but worth a pop. I might also try to organise something with a bit more notice for next year - no reason why it must be a ( Read more... )