My friend Sam Coley made this brilliant audio slideshow about Birmingham record store The Diskery. I’ve been really enjoying my local Kings Heath store, Polar Bear Records, since we moved here – but it has been a long time since I popped into the Diskery – and this makes me feel like it’s time to [...]
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We’ve recently moved into a new neighbourhood, and I’ve been checking out the local spots. I love the record store here (apparently there’s a better website on the way) – and our local pub is a fantastic venue for all sorts of great live gigs – the sort of international calibre stuff you wouldn’t expect [...]
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I bumped into my friend Roy at the Soil & “Pimp” Sessions gig at the Hare and Hounds last week. He’s a DJ and knows a thing or two about records. We were talking about the vinyl I picked up in Colombia when I was there a couple of months back. He was appropriately jealous, [...]
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Every now and then, a friend asks me to make up a Sunday Jazz Spotify playlist. This time, it was the turn of Nick in Belfast. Here’s what I came up with: Click here to listen Gary Burton – Boston Marathon Peggy Lee – Black Coffee Gil Scott-Heron – Ain’t No New Thing Jimmy Smith [...]
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