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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

It might as well have been a lost weekend …

On Thursday 21st July I posted on the Rust a brief preview of forthcoming a 60-minute documentary The Origin Of The Species by Julien Temple on the early life of Keith Richards the Rolling Stones guitarist that was to be broadcast on BBC2 last Saturday night. In it I made no secret of my long-held [...]

July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Looking forward to it

You might think this is blindingly obvious, but one of the enduring and rewarding aspects of being involved in the music industry in any capacity is that you never lose your membership of the human race. What I’m trying to allude to is that it is one of the rare walks of life in which you’re [...]

July 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Driving us round the twist

Thinking back over the past month or so, the one thing that has struck me about life in Britain has been the state of the roads. Or – to be precise about it – the amount of traffic on our roads and the consequent problems that gridlocks cause the general public. I travel every fortnight [...]

June 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Il Barbiere di Seviglia/Glyndebourne

It’s always difficult to assess with Glyndebourne whether the patrons go for the occasion or for the opera. Certainly the operas have high production values – and ticket prices- and the organisation is efficient but you do feel you are there for picknicking in black tie in the lovely [...]

May 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just another ‘Day In The Life’ …

Much of my yesterday was spent watching, listening and reading in the media of the tributes and analysis of the career and influence of music producer Sir George Martin who had just died aged 90. What struck me in reviewing the media outpourings and my own recollections and judgement, was the [...]

March 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well somebody’s gotta do it …

I don’t know why, particularly – but this piece by Adam Sherwin, spotted today on the website of The Independent, caught my eye today and I thought I’d share it with fellow Rust readers as we chart the passage of time both in the world and our own personal lives: See here – [...]

March 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

From Me To You

The title of being ‘the greatest band in popular music’ is a complicated one to award because – inevitably, at some point – subjectivity in the eyes of the beholder (or listener) comes into it: are we talking ‘empirically greatest’, or ‘my favourite ever’? Maybe there’s a [...]

February 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all about how you occupy your time

The truth is that nothing ages you more than having kids – or is it rather that the act of having kids becomes a constant reminder of ‘tempus fugit’ as they grow up into adulthood? Whilst there’s an eternal truth in the adage that we instinctively tend to feel eighteen inside whatever our [...]

February 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

French concert at Dome Brighton

It was pure coincidence that several months ago I bought a ticket for the London Philarmonic recital of three French composers at the Brighton Dome. The pieces were Pelleas et Melissande by Faure, a piano concerto in G Major and waltzes by Ravel and Debussy’s La Mer. The conductor Robin [...]

November 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

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