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After university, Michael spent twelve years working for MELODY MAKER before going freelance. He claims to keep doing it because it is all he knows. More Posts

A man who wouldn’t back down

Awoke and came to my computer around midnight last night and heard on Radio Five Live that Tom Petty had suffered a heart attack. I went straight to the newspaper websites and read that some agencies had apparently claimed he’d already died but later reports had denied this was the case. I [...]

October 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another underwhelming dip into the music world

A week or two ago – no doubt to the despair of publishers now fighting a rear-guard action to deny it by deploying such contradictory evidence as they can collect – there was a media story doing the rounds to the effect that in the 21st Century there was an increasing trend of people [...]

September 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Proms debut

Here’s a worthy piece that appears upon the website of The Guardian today – an article by former Labour politician Alan Johnson about his first ever visit(s) to the Proms, see here – THE [...]

September 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Classic fm

The celebration of Classic FM’s 25th anniversary was met by a distinctly cool and critical article in the Telegraph. The writer complained that it blurred the distinction of classical music, the presenters were too anxious to stress that the listener should use music to relax, and the [...]

August 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

The passing of a legend

Perhaps the biggest media story of the week was the news that UK national treasure and all-round entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE had died on Friday afternoon at the ripe old age of eighty-nine. As on other similar occasions, I am afraid I have not bothered to read the special six-page newspaper [...]

August 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Oklahoma! BBC Proms John Wilson Orchestra

The distinction between popular and classical music is becoming more and more blurred and much is due for this to The John Wilson Orchestra who regularly appear at the Proms and at a production at Glyndebourne of Madame Butterfly I saw last October. The orchestra faithfully plays the music of the [...]

August 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Still Doing It Again

As it does with many things musical, the world of global popular music tends to divide into those that believe in the Beach Boys – or rather, perhaps poignantly, Brian Wilson – and those that do not. I have no need here to declare that I am a worshipper at the Brian Wilson shrine [...]

August 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Cover music

Overnight on the website of The Independent I spotted an article by Chris Mugan reviewing two new ‘whole album’ tribute releases – music so ‘current’ that many Rust readers, me included, may not have come across them previously and almost certainly otherwise would not have done so in the [...]

July 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Knebworth Festival 1974

In the 1970s the annual Knebworth Festival in Hertfordshire was one of the staple fixtures of the UK rock industry, along with its Isle of Wight and Reading counterparts. As with all walks of life – national events, football games, whatever – there’s a weird syndrome about in which if you [...]

June 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

A worthy charity event

It happens in all professions – I’m thinking of a put-upon hotel manager who has to deal with the wacky demands of some jumped-up celebrity diva, a lawyer representing a client who’s denying everything despite his fingerprints being all over the stolen silverware, a head waiter facing Rust [...]

June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

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