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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

Going back and coming forward

My hunch is that the majority of our readers would regard it as par for the course – given our self-styled contrary, old-school, anti-mainstream, cult status slant – for the Rust’s music correspondent to admit that he doesn’t listen to music much anymore these days. The fact is [...]

May 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Slipping on a banana skin?

We’ve had Donald Trump being elected US President, the announcement of a UK General Election on 8th June, Emmanuel Macron (who started his own political party only a year ago) now installed as heavy favourite to become the President of French next month – how could the world get any weirder [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Just one more in a long line

The thing about 21st Century communications – e.g. the modern internet and social media, plus probably loads of other things that my grandchildren aged 7 and 3 know about but which I don’t – is that nobody is quite sure who and what might be listening to or reading your outpourings. These [...]

April 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

A credit to the sport of golf

Hats off to Sergio Garcia, one of the best-loved professional golfers in the world,  for his ‘extra hole’ play-off victory in the US Masters, I make no pretension to be a golf expert but my hunch is is that Sergio probably also stands as one of the world’s most favourite Spaniards [...]

April 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Television drama musings

Confession time: by habit I don’t watch much ‘meat and potatoes’ telly, but occasionally – usually by chance – I come across drama series that floats my boat. For example, a few years back I was recommended the (what is now called) the Scandi-Noir piece The Killing featuring detective [...]

March 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Blue and Lonesome – review

Last week I posted briefly about the imminent launch of the Rolling Stones’ new album Blue and Lonesome, an unexpected but (for some) welcome return to their early roots in blues and rhythm and blues. This further report comes in the wake of at last receiving my Amazon pre-ordered copy which I [...]

December 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

They’re always playing ‘START ME UP’ somewhere …

Being a fan of old-style Rhythm & Blues – rather than the modern hip-hop variety – I’ve been a fan/follower of the Rolling Stones down the ages ever since they first crossed my radar, probably at some point in 1963 a few weeks or months after the Beatles. I won’t provide here a summary [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Concert at Brighton Dome/ the London Philarmonic

Before I review this concert which was chiefly the work of Jean Sibelius, I would like to add my ha’pporth to the continuing debate of attendance v stay at home in the context of a classical music. The argument might be that it is preferable to stay in and enjoy the same pieces on a state of [...]

October 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Yesterday it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It says plenty about both the stature and importance of both Dylan and the Nobel Prize organisation itself that – save perhaps among some groups of literary elitist critics, pedants and those whose [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

To Get Back, or not to get back

Being roughly ten years younger than the Beatles, when they first burst upon national British consciousness I immediately became an obsessive wide-eyed fan of theirs in a male ‘from a safe distance, middle class, watching on TV, listening on radio, reading the newspapers and magazines, always [...]

September 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

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