Dusting off my old CDs

I pretty much stopped buying vinyl records and started buying Compact Discs (CDs) in 1989 shortly…

My vintage vinyl records

Over on TikTok I’ve been posting some of my old vinyl records which had been gathering…

Special gig No 9: Rush in Birmingham – 1988

Rush are a band I’ve been into since I was a kid, largely due to my…

Festivals: Donington 1988

I was at Donington in 1988. Grateful to have come home that day. Sadly not everyone…

Donington Monsters Remembered

As August draws to a close it’s a time for me to reflect on the ‘Monsters…

Artists I wished I’d seen…

A couple of days ago I posted another 1980s’s gig memory over on the Music In…

Glasto avoidance failure…

Incase I’ve never mentioned it (!) I went to Glastonbury Festival nearly every year for 20…

My screen debut is imminent…

Who remembers that time back in December 2021 when a film crew came to my house…

Ridiculous Record Covers!

Whilst recently flicking through some old records in an Altrincham charity shop I stumbled across this…

Keeping it in the family for my first vinyl in 30+ years!

A few weeks ago I took delivery of my first brand new vinyl record in over…

Special gig No 5: The Stone Roses on home soil – Manchester 2016

Saturday 18th June 2016 – The Stone Roses, Etihad Stadium, Manchester It is 6 years ago…

Recollections from my Record Collection (No 1)

At the start of 2022 I purchased my first turntable in over 30 years. Since then…

Gig Tickets part 5 – the 2020s

This decade got off to a very slow start thanks to the world-wide pandemic which brought…

Reliving my youth through vinyl

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted here following all the excitement of having a…

A very surreal Sunday

In a recent post (Music, Milestones and Movie Offers) I mentioned that I had been contacted…

Glasto Goodness – my 20 years at Glastonbury festival 1997-2017

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

Music, Milestones and Movie offers – what a month!

I think it’s fair to say that October 2021 has so far been a bit of…

Special gig No 4: Controversial W.A.S.P gig goes ahead in Nottingham – 1984

Tuesday 25th September 1984 – W.A.S.P at The Palais, Nottingham On this day in 1984 (37…