Tag: Music

My tribute to James Horner – Movie composer extraordinaire

I was sad to hear last night about the death of composer and musician James Horner who died as a result of the crash of solo plane he was flying.  Despite being only 61 years of age, James Horner has a grand back catalogue of music to his name.  It’s fair to say that he… Continue reading My tribute to James Horner – Movie composer extraordinaire

The Death of the music scene in London

I’ve written before on the various building and engineering projects that are transforming many cities in Britain and London in particularly.  In the grand scheme of things, many of these obviously offer huge improvements bringing 20th and often 19th century infrastructure into the new millennia.  However increasingly it is becoming obvious that all is not… Continue reading The Death of the music scene in London

Band Aid 30

There are many problems with the world at the moment and certainly with our country but one thing that we can be proud of is our record of charity and giving to countries that are poorer than our own.  In fact we are the only G8 country and one of only 5 in the world… Continue reading Band Aid 30

The Importance of Soft Power

In my near 2 years of blogging, I haven’t seen any posts on the concept of Soft Power.  This maybe because I spend too much time in other areas of WordPress but Soft Power is an important and interesting concept and one that is becoming increasingly important though at the same time remaining largely unknown.… Continue reading The Importance of Soft Power

All about the Eurovision Song Contest

Tonight sees the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest beamed out around the world to see a collection of singers and embarrassing performers strut their stuff to the television voters of Europe. The Eurovision Song Contest originated in the 1950’s as a way to try to bring Europe together and in that way, with the exception of… Continue reading All about the Eurovision Song Contest

Everybodys free to write (and wear sunscreen)

About 15 years ago I bought a book entitled “All I Really Need to Know I learned from Star Trek”, it became one of several philosophical type books about Star Trek that are scattered around my bookshelves, I’m not entirely sure where they all are, partially as I lend them out or my Uncle takes… Continue reading Everybodys free to write (and wear sunscreen)

Glastonbury – Then and Now

This weekend sees the world-famous musical festival in the sleepy Somerset town of Glastonbury. From out of nowhere a new city of around 180,000 people will settle down in the fields to enjoy music, dance and traditionally lots of mud. More of that later as the festival is only the latest event that has attracted… Continue reading Glastonbury – Then and Now