Half a century in the making, Sinner Man is one of crime fiction’s most exhilarating rediscoveries.
The Stones aren’t just covering these songs; they’re reliving them, getting fuelled by them and translating them into their language.
There’s a sort of electricity in the air. A sense of anticipation. Something is due to happen. That’s the feeling I got when I first walked into Gregory’s – a darkly lit jazz club hidden away down a thin road between the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy. Dominating the room is…
Well, this is exciting… We’ve only gone and bought a house! It hasn’t quite sunk in yet. It’s probably because we are currently in a grace period and not properly moved yet or maybe I’m trying not to think of the decades of debt I’ve just happily signed into. I have settled at the top of…
In the aftermath of the Orlando gay nightclub mass shooting, I read about a news interview whereby an increasingly frustrated journalist stormed off during a live discussion of the killer’s motives. They were debating if the shooter was acting in the name of religious terrorism or homophobic hate crime. Apparently it’s one or the other…
With too much time on my hands and the lovely lady in my life at work, it isn’t long before an acoustic guitar gets pulled out… I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a video review of my Alvarez Limited Edition Grateful Dead acoustic (great, great guitar both visually and tonally) and then I…
