It's 12.30am on Saturday night / Sunday morning with another two whole days of weekend still to go, with Monday being ANZAC Day, Noel Fielding is hosting Rage, life is good. and after the obligatory four Rolling Stones songs (proving again that white men can't dance) he's now introducing a lot of stuff I've not seen / heard before. Apart from Elvis ( Read more... )

I got thinking about this last night, after posting about Queen's album. I've always considered that album to be a classic of its time, and that got me thinking about other albums that I think of as classic, and wondering - why? and is it just me ( Read more... )

For those who aren't aware (whaddya mean, you don't follow the news from Australia? *g*) there is a Royal Commission into Instutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse currently running in Australia. Over the last year or so it has delved into the handling of abuse claims against groups as diverse as Scouts, schools and churches. Most recently the ( Read more... )

We lost an icon today and I feel hollow, like something precious has been taken out of me ( Read more... )

... when you're in the supermarket and a song you like starts playing on the instore radio, and you start doing a little dance as you push your trolley down the aisle and then someone comes around the corner into the same aisle. I didn't care how awkward it was, today, I just kept dancing and singing along ( Read more... )

..but I think I'm too wired to sleep. I stayed in the city after work tonight, and after a quick meal headed down to here:

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These guys are pretty amazing. Seasonal music choice, too -

( Carol of the Bells (for 12 cellos) - The PianoGuys )

Way back in the late 1990s/early 2000s a Brisbane band called Savage Garden was at the top of the charts in Australia. One of the songs on their second album, Affirmation, consisted wholly of belief statements. I was reminded of this last night when I was compiling a similar list of my own ( Read more... )

My maternal grandmother was a music teacher; she'd tutor private students in violin and piano, in the front (forbidden to the rest of us) room of her house. Even though she passed away when I was four, I still remember how quiet we had to be when she had a pupil. My sister and I would "listen-in" to the lessons from the other side of the closed ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God. I'm having hot flushes that have nothing whatsoever to do with menopause.

Embedding disabled, follow the fake cut to Led Zeppelin.

Could Robert Plant's jeans be any tighter?
*wanders off to bed, thinking happy thoughts*