Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo & Adam Stafford - Split Cassette
Posted in SHOFT on 18th July 2012
It seems fitting that what is very likely the last review on Songs Heard on Fast Trains should feature a number of performers who have cropped up throughout the life of the blog in various guises. Like this blog itself, they've marked some changes over the past several years and...
After Lockdown - The End of London?
Posted in London on 14th July 2012
I'm not a Londoner. Never have been, and it's fairly certain I never will be. My relationship with London is a strange and complicated one - sometimes bordering on reverence, and sometimes borne of a strange distaste. Spurred on by literature and music, snippets of legend and odd coincidences, I've...
Single Ticket #15 - Shambles Miller
Posted in SHOFT on 12th July 2012
Shambles Miller retains an almost unique claim to fame here, in that he is the only artist ever to write a song with a name so long it consistently made iTunes crash. The limitations on file path lengths in older versions of Microsoft Windows aside, this is just the kind...