In League With Paton

It's been so long since the last update I'd almost forgotten my Blogger login details. Oops. The highlights of the past week have be...

I had the pleasure of attending two superb gigs last week, although the contrast between the two could hardly be more striking. First off wa...

There's suddenly really rather a lot to get through, especially as we're now entering the peak period for album releases before it a...

Back in 1997, when I was 16 and maybe a little too in awe of Spiritualized's magnum opus 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Sp...

Oh well. Just when you think you have the Mercury Judges sussed, they return to blatant populism, and The Arctic Monkeys are confirmed as 20...

Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' That title is loaded with mischievous irony. 'Modern Times', like 'Love and Theft' be...

I'm becoming very bored with the current focus on singer-songwriters, and the rather lazy clustering of musicians with completely differ...

...Love, sweet love? Well, it would certainly help - but does the world really need another 'best of' compilation from R.E.M.? In fa...

Well it certainly blessed us with a fantastic Grand Prix (just when it was most needed), and the rain in London this weekend has mercifully ...

My Dad often bemoans the lack of committed political protest songs these days. I'll certainly concede that you're unlikely to hear a...

Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche Not content with setting himself the surely unachievable goal of recording an album for every US State, Sufja...

I really need to do something with the Links section of this blog. As a useful resource, it's fast becoming obsolete. A lot of the URLs ...

What a great weekend! In this stifling heat, it was good to get away to coastal Wales (for the Aberystwyth Arts Festival), where it was stil...