💥 The year has started with a bang 💥. New planets being discovered, new songs being written and good news reported recently on climate change - we were particularly excited to see that, since 2015 when the UK introduced a charge on plastic bags in shops, there has been, just two years later, a 37% decrease in the amount of plastic bags found polluting our environment…
Read MoreWhatever your views on happenings 2000 years ago, for some the imminent passing of this latest piece of detritus from space will add to the romanticism of the festive season. For others, Comet 46P/ Wirtanen’s sighting will be an early Xmas gift…
Read MoreIt's 8.30 am and the sun (remember that thing, Londoners?) is beginning to reappear in the skies over London. I'm waiting at Whitechapel tube station for a Hammersmith & City line (the pink one) train to Edgware Road in West London, and it's rush hour. And I have a guitar and my huge pedalboard of effects (imagine a huge plastic briefcase)...
Read MoreThe moon, as you've never seen it before!
Read MoreIn an imagined future, Mizar Five is a new gangland paradise – Boardwalk Empire in space. No policemen, not even one, in a city where you can always start again, avoiding potential arrest on another planet. It’s almost Star Wars – Mizar 5 could be that “hive of villainy” that Ben Kenobi describes on Tatooine. In fact, Steely Dan’s ‘Royal Scam’ album was released a year before the first Star Wars film in 1976. Is this a case of art inspiring art inspiring art? Or did Jack Vance manage to influence two of my favourite American pop culture exports?
Read MoreThe recent news about a fight-back from small London venues has been met with mostly
positive reception, after a tipping point was reached after decisions being made
in the last few years to close many legendary venues around the country Spaces which form part of our musical heritage.
