I heard on Wednesday evening of the death of Fritz VanHelsing. I never knew his real name, but then he wasn’t a guy you would ask. He lived punk, all torn …
Archive for ‘Music’
Thursday, February 16th, 2012 Category: Journal, Music, My music 6 Comments 
I see word’s getting round about the Listening Room’s 10th Anniversary Mega-No-Mic. To celebrate 10 years of intimate strumplucking at the Blue Blazer on Sunday nights, founder Peter Michael …
Read More >Friday, January 20th, 2012 Tags: blue blazer, edinburgh, listening room, open mic Category: Music, My music No Comments
“… and other tales of transfiguration”
Simon Jackson, playwright and novelist, is known around the Edinburgh music scene as Torpedo Buoy. This is his ‘greatest un-hits’ – a collection of thoroughly wacky but intriguing songs and poems-with-music.
Ideas are …
Read More >Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 Category: Music No Comments
This may be my last post on the current version of my blog and site, as the new one’s not far off completion.
Some of my friends have been making up, even giving away, albums of the music they’ve liked best from 2011. I don’t actually …
Read More >Monday, December 19th, 2011 Category: Music No Comments
This little statement is in the sleevenotes of So Beautiful or So What and, as I get engaged with writing again, it rings as true as any description I've ever heard of the creative process:
How do the fingers of this thing entwine?
Which foot falls first …
Read More >Sunday, July 17th, 2011 Category: Ideas, Music, My music No Comments
