Phil Shaw
Long Gone – The Firelight Opera
6 November 2019
Now, before I go off on one – in my inimitable and fawningly effervescent style – please do yourself a favour.
Find this song – COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
By this band – THE FIRELIGHT OPERA
Listen in reverence… Thank me later…
Dear God – Siobhan Wilson
23 October 2019
Truth? Let me tell you a truth. An uncomfortable truth. One hidden in plain sight for a thousand years! He never, ever, ever, answers your prayers – this God of yours!…
It wasn’t too long or too short
At the end of the day, all done and all said
I was hooked and I’m pleased to report…
The Sweetest Dream – Doug Alldred & the Silver Lining
15 October 2019
I spent some time with Doug Alldred
It wasn’t too long or too short
At the end of the day, all done and all said
I was hooked and I’m pleased to report…
Hold Me – Teddy Beats and Mon Rovîa
14 August 2019
To have and to hold. From this day forward. For better or for worse. For richer, for poorer. In sickness and in health. To love and to cherish. Until death do us part.
For where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God…
Everything is Alright – Neil and Adam
7 August 2019
It transpires that Everything Is Alright was actually recorded and performed by veteran St. Louis songwriting partnership Neil McCloskey and Adam Hilligardt, quite recently as it happens, in 2015. Its nimble-footed fusion of soul, pop, and soft-rock is the stuff of all those eighties life-affirming pop hits that made Hall and Oates the most successful pop duo in the world ever…
Enjoy It While It Lasts – Easy Wanderlings
23 July 2019
All things must pass. Everything is temporary. Everyone that you know, you will only know for a brief period of time. Your life is short, finite, fleeting. Old friends will leave you. New friends will join you…
Daughter – Ryan Cassata
10 July 2019
I read the news today. Oh boy!
About a lucky man who made the gr…
Actually, the news was about a father, arrested for killing his transgender son!
Just stop and think about that! Dad… intentionally… kills own son!…
I Don’t Mind – Aaron Ward
2 July 2019
She loads the CD. Puts on some relaxing music. We sit in silence for a few seconds. “Why are you here?” she gently asks. We look at each other for a moment. The moment becomes a longer moment. It’s an interview question. It’s how a lot of counselling sessions begin.
A clock ticks. It separates an infinite past from an infinite future…
Sheffield – Karkosa
19 June 2019
When you’re in the moment. In that sweet spot between the future and the past. Between tomorrow and today. When you’re alive. When your body is electric. When sparks are arcing from your imagination like cartwheeling hallelujahs. Away, away into the ether…
Miss Maggie May – The Garage Flowers
11 June 2019
Wake up Maggie. I think I’ve got something to say to you.
A brand-new micawberish version of a Rod Stewart classic?
Nope… definitely not !
Anyone with the temerity to send us a song with MAGGIE MAY in the title is most likely looking to get a good journalistic kicking imho. Either that or they’re so precociously talented that they seriously don’t give a damn…
Scared of Being Alone – Rose Fall
5 June 2019
Her heart stopped beating. She floated… just above the ground. She couldn’t look down, couldn’t move. Her entire life had been leading to this moment, and the moment swept away the past. There was only the future now. He was the future, and the future was professing his undying love…
Alice Is In Love With The Mad Hatter – Luna Keller
23 April 2019
Okay. Let’s get down this Rabbit Hole…
Luna Keller is a singer/songwriter based in Tenerife. She’s quite possibly something of a child prodigy; writing her first song, a single chord symphony called ‘I can play E minor’ two days after ‘borrowing’ her dad’s guitar and just one day after learning her first chord – which my friend Sherlock strongly suspects just happened to be E minor…