King Post Kitsch - Don't You Touch My Fucking Honeytone
Posted in SHOFT on 24th May 2011
One of the most thrilling things about listening to emerging new music is the sense that you could probably, given the time and the opportunity, do something very similar yourself. There is something liberating and exciting about the way the DIY ethic lowers the barrier to entry. Granted, given this...
White Heath - Take No Thought For Tomorrow
Posted in SHOFT on 22nd May 2011
One of the most engaging things about being involved in the grassroots of music is hearing things emerge as part-formed ideas, changing and growing over time to become fully-fledged parts of a band's repertoire. This isn't limited to the fringes of the music scene either - as artists from Bob...
Men at Wirksworth
Posted in Railways on 21st May 2011
I've noticed over the years that sometimes my travels seem to cluster together visits to certain areas. It's sometimes a deliberate thing, like when I decided that the blank space in my atlas around Merseyside needed attention a few years back - but equally often it seems to be an...