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• Why The Who’s ‘Tommy’ Remains A Masterpiece

  

  It’s all too easy to go, “Yeah, The Who’s Tommy is great, love it.” But just put it into perspective for a moment. This was one man’s imagination, one man’s... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers No. 1 On Billboard 200

  Kendrick Lamar‘s new album Mr. Morale The Big Steppers has hit the top spot in the US Billboard album charts, with the biggest first-week sales in 2022 so far. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• George Thorogood & The Destroyers Announce Australian Tour

  George Thorogood The Destroyers have announced an Australian tour across October and November 2022. Celebrating 40 years of their classic “Bad To The Bone”... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• John Legend Announces London Royal Albert Hall Show For April 2023

  

  John Legend has announced a very special show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, on April 5, 2023. Legend has been hard at work on a new album, set to be released... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• Tiny Dancer And A Big Splash For Elton John

  

  Exponential success brought no let-up in Elton John’s diary in 1971. By November, it was time for the release of his fifth album in 18 months, and this after th... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• The Musical Legend Of Bonnie & Clyde

  

  It’s a legend that has fascinated us for more than 80 years. On May 23, 1934, the infamous American criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• Performance Clauses In Entertainment Contracts

  Producing and editing a masterwork of recorded music is obviously a specialized art form. But so is the entertainment lawyer’s act of drafting clauses,... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• Roger Moore’s Links With Beatles, Led Zeppelin & More

  

  The Beatles with Roger Moore at the 1963 NME Poll Winners Concert. Photo: Mark and Colleen Hayward/Redferns The death on 23 May 2017 of the great British actor... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• ‘It’s Better To Travel’: Swing Out Sister’s Stylish Album Arrival

  

  We’ve never started a story with a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson before, but this is the moment. In Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, published in... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• How Goth Rock Emerged From The Shadows

  Defining the essence of “goth” is notoriously tricky. Its detractors deride it as a doom-laden, fashion-driven genre where black is perennially the new black,... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 TRAVEL

• I Am Here

  

  Excuse the lack of posting, but as you can see above, I have a good reason. In other news, Skip Town is getting a make-over which may take a few weeks to... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 TRAVEL

• December Pinning

  

  The psychedelic hues of the Winkworth Arboretum* in Surrey, UK, definitely call for some extended picnic time, preferably spent reclining on a Pratesi wool... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 TRAVEL

• The BIG Trip: Mischa Pringle of Roll South

  

  Today’s post marks the end of my mini-focus on Queenstown, New Zealand, as well as the start of a new series on long-term travel which I’m calling, as you can... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 TRAVEL

• Skip Town in Queenstown, New Zealand

  

  My travel itinerary has been a little light this year – which I’m sure is much more painful for me than you! But earlier this month I finally managed to dust of... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 TRAVEL

• Time Travel: 1940′s Queenstown

  

  *Images courtesy National Library of New Zealand Hello! I’m in Queenstown at the moment visiting a friend. Yesterday’s weather was pretty dire, so I spent some... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 TRAVEL

• Stay: QT Gold Coast

  

  What can you do with a city that was founded in the 20′s, transformed (high-rise style) in the 70′s, boomed in the 80′s and 90′s, but... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL, VACATION

• The Fine Art of Travel: Gatwick

  

  Just when the thrill of air travel had started to dull a little, the commanding series “Gatwick” by the mysterious Lee Mawdsley, pulls me out of ambivalence. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2012 TRAVEL

• September Pinning

  

  It’s only now, after several twenty-plus degree days in a row that I’m ready to declare summer on it’s way! I may not be heading to Capri, but these Madewell... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 TRAVEL

• Stay: The Winged House

  

  When people talk about wanting to get away from it all, more often than not a day-trip to a country vineyard is all they had in mind. While that’s all fine and... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Skip Town in Tasmania] Museum of Old + New Art, Hobart

  

  On a recent, too-short visit to Hobart, the city I called home for 8 years, the thing I was most looking forward to, apart from seeing friends and breathing in... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2012 TRAVEL