Judging a CD by it’s Band-Name

We’ve all heard the old adage, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, to the point that it’s become cliched (probably the most overused word on my blog), and yet it’s the most universally ignored proverb out of all the ones that come to my head. Possibly this could be due to the fact [...]

My Male Maiden-name

Apologies to all for the late post today, I was busy being bored to death by Strauss’ very slow moving Salome in the Convent Garden Opera House last night. It was an okay production, great singers, but it was a-tonal. Not good for a night out in my opi-onion. Still it was a lovely evening, avec [...]

X-factor’s Bone Idol

I like 100s of thousands watched the final of the X-factor on Saturday (more from boredom than choice) and it brought back a lot of memories, mainly ones of how much I now hate that show. Well done to Leon, he will almost certainly get a Christmas number one, but will he release more than a second album? He seemed like a genuinely [...]

Carmen off it!

Last weekend, I went to see the Opera Carmen at the Coloseum put on by the ENO with my fiancee and, I have to say, having mulled over it for the past week, that I really enjoyed the experience.   It was an Opera-comique written in Paris by Georges Bizet in the mid 1800s.   It was very badly reviewed at [...]

Big song and dance

Top of t’e t’ursday to ya!
What do people think of my typed Irish accent there?   I’m going to grumble today, because the weather’s bad.   Last night I was playing the role of my fiancee’s number one fan at the Chamber Orchestra concert.   She can sing and play the violin, but last night she was playing the [...]