December 2010
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On My Mostly-Secular Love For Midnight Mass
[above: token midnight mass image, how quaint!]
As I passed through the church door in the final minutes of Christmas Eve last year I was feeling full of Christmas spirit… and wine. I headed towards the pleasant-looking old lady handing out leaflets on the door who gave me a delightful smile that slowly turned into a suspicious glare.
“Have you been drinking?” she asked me, a question to which I...
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To the purveyors of Epic Symphonic Power Metal,...
Some time ago, Blind Guardian’s new record ‘At The Edge of Time’ appeared in the ‘what’s new’ section of my Spotify player and so, on a whim, I decided to have a little listen. The only time that I had ever heard of them before was seeing their name on a patch that my friend Ed (purveyor of the choicest ingots of metallic noise) had on his denim jacket. I distinctly...
Why's and wherefores...
It’s the same story at almost every house party that I’ve ever been to.
At a certain point in the evening, in a comparatively peaceful bedroom away from the beating heart of the party, somebody stumbles over to a solitary guitar propped up in the corner, picks it up and begins to haphazardly strum a few chords. It passes from troubadour to would-be troubadour, some tragically poor, others...