Category: Music

It being Sunday, it’s time for something spiritual to feed the soul. So how about that staple of the classical repertoire – Ave Maria. We will be looking at a variety of versions and providing you with an opportunity to choose your favourite. We shall approach this task chronologically. Schubert wrote a piece in 1825, […]

This is going to be one of the more difficult post that I have tried to write, mainly because there is very little information about the people involved extant on the internet, which is to me a great surprise – but we must make the best of it because the legacy of their music needs […]

Yui stylized as YUI or yui, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress. Born and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, she played live at various locations in her hometown before being noticed by Sony Music when she was 17 years old, and released her debut single months later. Her singles, however, were only met with moderate […]

During this period of COVID-19 unpleasantness, many of us are not able to visiting our favourite waterholes, especially to avail ourselves of that pinnacle of British cuisine – The Full English – so I thought I would bring you a musical feast to assuage the pangs. The Full English launched in 2013 and is an […]

Today we are going share a miscellany of approaches to one of the most popular pieces of classical music. It is No. 32 on Classic FM’s list of favourite pieces. Pachelbel’s Canon is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel in his Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo. It […]

Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin. They have been widely influential, both over their contemporaries and with later acts. Initially associated with the punk scene, the band rapidly evolved to create “a form of post-punk discord full of daring […]

Marianne Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk singer in coffeehouses. She soon began taking part in London’s exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, […]

Finally we have arrived at the last in our series of songs for days of the week. Interestingly, whilst most of the Saturday songs focussed on the evening, the morning predominates in our selection of Sunday songs. So here we go – “Sunday Morning” is a song by American band No Doubt for their third […]

Well for some the songs for Saturday proved an embarassment of riches, for others just an embarassment! What do you think? “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” is a song originally recorded by Elton John. John composed it with his long-time songwriting partner Bernie Taupin. It was released on John’s best-selling album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road […]

So at last it is Friday, the notional end of the working week. The day for which we should give thanks to God (TGIF) and if can remember that for back ‘Crunchie’. “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” is a song co-written and recorded by American singer Katy Perry from her third studio album, Teenage Dream. The […]