The Story of Carol of the Bells/Shchedryk
On Christmas Eve, I did a special radio broadcast on FOTW Radio, mainly for a group of Japanese listeners who…
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Heavy Metal Fears of the 1980s
“As Barry had listened to the music, he had become mesmerized by it as a whole new world opened up…
IN PRAISE OF CREATIVE PEOPLE
One of the things I like now most in my life, as a forty-something man, is having creative friends. It…
Johnny Dark’s a Legend
TOWARDS THE END OF Glebe Point Road, the 438 bus pulled up outside the Valhalla Cafe and a gang of…
As a creative person, how do you know you are doing good work?
This week I watched a good training video about how to direct actors in an audio story. But at the…
A few retrospective music genres for armchair time-travellers
Occasionally I realize – with a slight panic – that most of the things I like are from the past:…
The Night Jeep – a strange tale from the dusty garage!
Over Halloween, I took a few weeks off from my normal job to run an annual online Halloween radio stream,…
Altin Gün: One of the best things about 2021
The world might be a bit shit at the moment – and that’s maybe an understatement! But you can’t go…
The Great Spoken Word Albums of the Nineties
“In general, our first impressions are true ones . . . In early youth we read a poem, for instance,…
Meeting Alan Nala
When I was in my mid-thirties, I would often go to bars in the city by myself, under the pretext…