absurdkingdom.blogspot.com
Kingdom of the Absurd: July 2014
http://absurdkingdom.blogspot.com/2014_07_01_archive.html
Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Wednesday, July 23, 2014. The thicke end of the wedge. Much has been made of Robin Thicke’s indifferent album. As opposed to hundreds of thousands for his last effort. We all love a bit of schadenfreude but the sheer quantity of glee could easily be pronounced professional trolling (by proxy? Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Earlier this month I was at The Cornbury Festival where, fo...
absurdkingdom.blogspot.com
Kingdom of the Absurd: April 2015
http://absurdkingdom.blogspot.com/2015_04_01_archive.html
Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Monday, April 6, 2015. Not waving but yachting. Deborah Orr pretty much. Nailed the Tidal argument. And by making parallels with the. 8216;100 letter’. From businessmen protecting their own interests she did few favours for an artist community that sought to portray the thought that they were doing us one. We all know that. 8216;trickle down’ doesn’t work. All the acts in the ...
absurdkingdom.blogspot.com
Kingdom of the Absurd: September 2014
http://absurdkingdom.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html
Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Credit where it’s due….here we are bleating. About recorded rock music being dead and Royal Blood. Pop up and score a number one album. Not only that but it’s the fastest selling rock album in three years. I usually have issues with some of the music lumped under the label of rock but there’s no doubts here, Royal Blood is a proper rock album.
andywalmsley.blogspot.com
Random radio jottings: Parky at 80
http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2015/03/parky-at-80.html
Saturday, 28 March 2015. Happy 80th Birthday today to Michael Parkinson. Parky’s career is pretty well-known: cub reporter on the South Yorkshire Times. National Service (Private Parkinson RAPC, army number 23131269), back to Civvy street and reporting for the Barnsley Chronicle. ABC Television (at their Didsbury studios), down to Fleet Street to work on the Daily Express. Back north to Granada TV ( Scene at 6.30. A brief (unsuccessful) spell with the Beeb on 24 Hours. In late 1985 there was a six-part s...
andywalmsley.blogspot.com
Random radio jottings: September 2014
http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html
Tuesday, 30 September 2014. 8220;Standby for switching. Get tuned to Radio 1 or 2. 5, 4, 3, Radio 2, Radio 1, go! 8221; Surely one of the most played pieces of radio archive: Robin Scott’s countdown to the launch of Radio 1 at 7 am on Saturday 30 September 1967. But what was happening over on Radios 2, 3 and 4? Was there an exciting new range of programmes as part of the biggest shake-up of the radio networks since the immediate post-war period? Or was it just business as usual? So what about Radio 1?
andywalmsley.blogspot.com
Random radio jottings: Take Me to Your Leader
http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2015/05/take-me-to-your-leader.html
Friday, 1 May 2015. Take Me to Your Leader. Election debates. Leadership interviews. Question Time Special. Party Election Broadcasts. It won't have escaped your notice that (in the UK) there's a General Election happening next week. The political spectrum is much more fragmented these days and the parties are undoubtedly planning for coalition deals and agreements - even if they publicly deny this. From 10 December 1985 this is Labour leader Neil Kinnock:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hailing ori...
andywalmsley.blogspot.com
Random radio jottings: August 2014
http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2014_08_01_archive.html
Thursday, 28 August 2014. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? Can you tell your frequencies from your wavelengths? Here’s help from the Ladybird book How It Works: Television. Published in 1968, I’m guessing, from the stations on the radio dial, the artwork was commissioned the previous year. The text was written by David Carey. The illustration is by B.H. Robinson. Monday, 25 August 2014. Ross on the Radio. I wonder if Bob Shennan had to complete extra compliance paperwork to get him back on-air? Ran for 13 ...
andywalmsley.blogspot.com
Random radio jottings: Get Myself Connected
http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2015/03/get-myself-connected.html
Monday, 23 March 2015. Image a world in which you could get “all your music and videos online without ever leaving your home”. I know. It’ll never happen! This vast explosion of change in cyberspace and interactivity was on the horizon when BBC Radio 1 presented their Interactive Radio Night. Twenty years ago cutting edge was a CD-ROM and the concept on sending an email was still a novelty. Guiding listeners through the technology are Evening Session. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Adventures In Vin...
absurdkingdom.blogspot.com
Kingdom of the Absurd: March 2014
http://absurdkingdom.blogspot.com/2014_03_01_archive.html
Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Friday, March 14, 2014. Ghost Town (slight return). The debate was sparked by two. Clearly a band would always want to play their home-town but nothing would be more embarrassing than failing to sell out in your back-yard, having a guest list that’s bigger than the box office sales print-out may also be a big issue. Tours take a number of factors into consideration f...By issu...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT