Eventually everyone goes their own way of course.
The chords echo through the old church, and the buzzing of the wooden beams makes my brain reverberate in tandem.
A Stereo Story about a stereo. A love story too.
A big, big book about a phenomemal rock climber includes a little story about a gifted troubled musician.
There’s a crack in everything… Our collection of stories stemming from songs by Leonard Cohen looks at rehabilitation, mental health, love, even the moon landing. Plus a fun jazz poem from Canada, filmed while the author is driving. Luke Davies says in his piece about Tonight Will Be Fine, ‘Listening to most music has been [...]
Would I be able to convince my Belfast family that there was a better world out there?
I didn’t know what was popular amongst my peers, didn’t really care. It didn’t bother me if I was considered weird.
A guitar rests in a corner, beside the open fire. “Can you play?” A melody reverberates as the clock on the kitchen counter clicks over to 3am.
Listening to most music has been so much harder for me since the stroke and I had not been keen on revisiting older recordings and demos of ideas stashed away on various hard drives.
Each night of our five -night derailment, when the hot sun went down, we’d go and sit on the still-warm tracks with a crazed old railway fettler who had befriended us.