I KNOW, given my position as an indie artist my ‘Desert Island’ pick should be an indie album. I would certainly rank any work by Fendehlene, Portobello Express, Rose Alaimo, January Fire, Postindustrial Poets or… well the list is just TOO long, as being the lone disc I would keep in my company when isolated on…
Read articleTHE good old, ‘stranded on an island’ question. So, I have one record to choose from? Hmmmm, almost anyone who likes music and art is going to struggle here, right? This is hard for me; I like everything from Slayer to Curtis Mayfield. I know it has to be something that ROCKS, but is it…
Read articleNEEDLESS to say, picking only one desert island album was a fun challenge for sure! I mentally went through my top twenty choices and thought, how am I ever going decide? Some of my top choices were already taken as expected. I must mention that the finalists included selections from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Grateful…
Read articleWHENEVER I’m struggling there’s a place I go to in my head. It’s just me. I’m alone with my thoughts and emotions, pondering what’s going on, trying to put things back into place: to be content; to be happy; to be at peace. It’s my own mental desert island, I suppose. In an ideal world…
Read articleI WAS asked to write a review about the one album I’d take with me if I were to go to a desert island. And yet, to have to pick one album only seems to be an impossible task. This scenario didn’t come up the first time – it remains a popular question on Twitter….
Read articleWHEN I was first asked to choose one album I could take with me to a desert island, I thought: “My god! Where do I begin?!!” I thought I’d go off piste and pick a comedy album. It would be Derek & Clive Ad Nauseam. I can listen to it over and over. But maybe…
Read articleI’M a massive procrastinator and so decisiveness is not my strongest point. Choosing an album to take to a desert island? Well, that’s going to cause me some problems. I was born in the mid-1950s and grew up with all the fine music from the 1960s and early 1970s. I was around when the Beatles…
Read articleLET’S preface this by stating that the notion of being consigned to a desert island sits very comfortably with me – I’m a fan of solitude; I seek it out, require it in abundance. So I’m unfairly advantaged re: the assigned task. The other thing is, though, that I also rather like silence. I think…
Read articleTO choose one album to take with you to a desert island seems like an almost impossible task. Especially for somebody like myself who loves music more than anything. I narrowed the selection down to a few key albums I keep going back to and finally chose the one: Sunshowers by J Eoin. J Eoin…
Read articleI REMEMBER exactly where I was standing the first time I heard ‘The Lemonheads.’ I was in my best friend’s living room, eight feet away from the TV. I remember we were waiting for our drummer to arrive so we could start band practice. We were watching an MTV special promoting The Coneheads movie. Every…
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