As a family we love the beach, so any time we can get a long weekend away such as the bank holiday weekend earlier this month, we take the opportunity to visit the coast. Back in 2015 we spent a week in Cromer during the summer and fell in love with the place, to the […]
Reviews, Travel CromerI first heard of Whitney Rose sometime in the latter half of 2017, though her career goes back more than half a decade before that. Her latest album, Rule 62, took the number 9 spot in my Top 10 Albums of 2017, and had I listened to it more in 2017, I’m sure it would […]
Live Music, Reviews Pepe Belmonte, Whitney RoseI’ve been a fan of Record Store Day for a few years now, both for the interesting releases that come out each year and for the live performances that record shops up and down the country feature. I usually go to David’s Music in Letchworth, but as soon as I heard that Danni Nicholls was […]
Live Music, Reviews, Vinyl Records Danni Nicholls, Record Store DayI realise Golden Hour has been out for a couple of weeks now, but rather than write about Kacey Musgraves’ third and latest album, I was listening to it…over, and over and over again. Without even the slightest hint of hyperbole I have never, that I can remember, listened to an album so many times […]
Music, Reviews Kacey MusgravesA little while ago this festival called The Long Road kind of appeared on social media and had it’s home on the internet at thelongroad.com. At this point we didn’t know a great deal about it, other than it was set to run September 9th-11th and is being spearheaded by BBC Radio and Chris Country’s […]
Live Music, Music Angaleena Presley, Ashley Campbell, Billy Bragg, Danni Nicholls, Lee Ann Womack, Megan O'Neill, Striking Matches, The Long Road, The Shires, The Worry DollsIt felt like this book was made for me, given how many incredible female country music artists fill my playlist on a daily basis. What I didn’t realise, until I received and opened it, was that each featured artist is chronicled by a different writer, giving many different perspectives and experiences. It’s fascinating, reading the […]
100 Word Book Reviews, MusicI’m sure there are many people who will raise their eyebrows substantially when reading this, but this is the list of my top 10 favourite animated Disney films, at least today anyway. I didn’t grow up with Disney so I have no childhood memories of watching Disney films, except Bambi, which I find as dull […]
Films & TV, ListsThis started out as a blog post right here but then turned in to an episode on my Dedicated to DLP Podcast, which you can listen to here. Now it’s back to being a blog post again. There was no clever algorithm used to calculate the placings, no deep thought, just the simple question: if […]
ListsFor 20 books I lapped up the adventures of the almost superhuman Jack Reacher, revelling in his ability to outsmart and outmuscle any adversary that stood in his way. That didn’t change for this 21st instalment, and it’s always interesting seeing Reacher leave the US, and team up with his old pal Frances Neagley. However, […]
100 Word Book Reviews Jack Reacher, Lee ChildI like wrestling, I like rock music, Chris Jericho is one of my favourite wrestlers and I enjoyed his first three books, a lot. This actually reads like a self-help book, with a difference – Jericho makes it interesting with stories from two wildly different but also very similar worlds, and the advice he gives […]
100 Word Book Reviews, Books & Comics Chris Jericho