Glasto Goodness Part 7 – 2004

I went to Glastonbury for 20 years between 1997 and 2017, amazingly missing out on tickets…

Special gig No 1: A ghostly stage for Viola Beach (RIP)

This was a very emotional evening. Blossoms + The Vryll Society + Viola Beach,  Manchester Albert…

Glasto Goodness Part 6 – 2003

I went to Glastonbury for 20 years between 1997 and 2017, amazingly missing out on tickets…

The night the music stopped…

A year ago this week, on Saturday 15th Feb 2020, me and my old mate and…

Glasto Goodness Part 5 – 2002

I went to Glastonbury for 20 years between 1997 and 2017, amazingly missing out on tickets…

Glasto Goodness Part 4 – 2000

I went to Glastonbury for 20 years between 1997 and 2017, amazingly missing out on tickets…

Glasto Goodness Part 3 – 1999

I went to Glastonbury for 20 years between 1997 and 2017, amazingly missing out on tickets…

Special gig No 6: Manic Millennium – Cardiff 1999/2000

I am pretty certain that I’ve only ever been to one gig on New Years Eve…

If you owned a Time Machine…?

I recently ran a poll on the Music in the Attic Facebook Group asking members to…

Glasto Goodness Part 2 – 1998

I went to Glastonbury for 20 years between 1997 and 2017, amazingly missing out on tickets…

Glasto Goodness Part 1 – 1997

I went to Glastonbury for 20 years between 1997 and 2017, amazingly missing out on tickets…

Gig Tickets part 4 – the 2010s

Another decade and another eclectic mix of artists! This was the decade in which I witnessed…

Bin bags, fags and potato wine – Knebworth 1985

Deep Purple were without doubt the first proper ‘heavy rock’ band I got into after my…

Gig Tickets part 3 – the 2000s

If the 90’s saw my musical tastes become a little more eclectic then the ‘noughties’ was…

Gig Tickets part 2 – the 1990s

This was my ‘decade of diversity’ – the era when the heavy metal shackles came off…

Gig tickets part 1 – the 1980s

At some point I’ll probably share my recollections of some of the gigs I went to…

Get with the programme

When I first started going to gigs as a teenager in the early ’80s I always…

Donington before Download – 1984

Monsters of Rock Festival, Castle Donington – 18th August 1984 The summer of 1984 is remembered…