A nostalgia trip

 
(Almost) random old picture of the week #2

Summer 1998 All the good pictures of my dad are currently out of reach so this one will have to do – this was taken 10 years ago but he hasn’t changed that much. Happy Birthday Dad! – and here’s your pressie…

 
(Almost) random old picture of the week #1

Adam has his Grade 4 piano exam on Saturday this is by way of a good luck wish and to show that, like the insanely ambitious parents we are, we started him off at a very young age Blogged with the Flock Browser

 
My Top 6…gigs at the Royal Albert Hall

(originally uploaded by the_moog) Between acts at the Albert Hall last week I started looking around the venue thinking of all the different places I’d sat and I suddenly realised that I’d been to quite a few shows so here’s a top 6 (but aside from the first one they’re not really in any order)… [...]

 
Just dug this one out: #9 Nord Express

Many moons ago someone sent me a tape with a lot of Nord Express tracks on because anyone who loved Galaxie 500 would surely love Nord Express – it was true, I did love them – but it was a very careless love, and like so much stuff that I had on tape, it sort [...]

 
It was 20 years ago today…

Galaxie 500‘s first ever show Read a bit more about the first show on A Head Full of Wishes

 
A nostalgia trip #2 - A headbanger…

Me and mum(originally uploaded by grange85) There are undoubtedly better pictures of me as a Motorhead fan but this is the only evidence currently in my Flickr photostream. It’s a picture of me and my mum probably in 1980 or 81. The sleeveless denim jacket was (eventually) covered in patches (pretty much nothing but Motorhead [...]

 

The last time I saw Motörhead was probably back in 1983 when Brian Robertson was playing guitar for them. It might have been at the Marquee and may have been the very gig at which I caught Lemmy’s pick when he chucked it into the crowd. Robertson left, the new tracks stuck on the No [...]

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