A Lost Week
Posted in Railways on 14th August 2011
Regular readers, should any remain now the music stuff has headed elsewhere, may recall the 'Lost Weekend' series. Occasions when planned trips didn't happen but advance fares and hotel bookings had to be used. In fairness, I've had some fairly interesting trips in the past off the back of these...
Newspaper Joe, Brown Brogues, Rae Morris, Mazes - The Mad Ferret, Preston
Posted in SHOFT on 12th August 2011
The reasons I ended up in Preston today are complicated - suffice to say it was never my intention to be at a loose end in Lancashire, and searching for something to do on a Friday night. Having wandered around town a little earlier, and experienced the usual sense of...
OLO Worms - Poloroid #3
Posted in SHOFT on 7th August 2011
I'm sometimes rebuked for overlooking what's happening in my local music scene in favour of things further afield. It's probably a fair comment, but the mind-numbingly steady diet of tribute and covers bands here, and a disappointing lack of ingenuity in those playing their own compositions (with some notable exceptions...