A Miscellany from Deepest Kent

UPDATED JUNE 2021 So, England is going for a third crack at a full blown lockdown, cos the other two were just great weren't they? To pa...

This particular post is being written while my home county of Kent has been plunged into 'tier three' coronavirus restrictions (bas...

[Updated June 2021] 'The long song' used to be a feature on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 show where he played the tracks that don't ...

I recently learned that we refer to a collection of songs as an album because when music was only really available on 78 rpm vinyl records y...

A few years ago I wrote a kind of 'Desert Island Discs' for this blog, listing ten of my all time favourite albums. As I was recentl...

Many of the pieces I write for this blog are edited versions of articles I write for a local magazine. This month I am going to give you som...