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Well, it was Father's Day the other weekend and in our household I guess we don't usually do so much to celebrate (much the same for Mother's Day). Save for a card and a small token gift the whole thing just seems a little over hyped by supermarkets and card retailers. Anyway, before the Sunday of Father's Day Mrs Akin and I had booked some tickets for the Friday afternoon at Camden's 'Live Odyssey Event'. It was a beautiful day…

So, with a recent week off work I did quite a bit of popping 'up town' to see some things and places I had never been to before, you know how it is, you just kind of build up a 'bucket list' of stuff and places you feel like you need to go and see in London, just not necessarily the most recognised on the tourist trail as per Eric Morecambe... I guess rather than want to visit some of…

A Tale Of The Four 'Johns'. A graceful bow and nod to the whole Pub Rock Scene from the 70's. With great respect to Lee 'John' Collinson (Lee Brilleaux) John Wilkinson (Wilko) John B Sparks (Sparko) John Martin (The Big Figure), all part of Essex Pub Rock/R&B band Dr Feelgood. I posted this back on 29th April of this year, but I am giving it a re-post in memory and respect to Wilko Johnson who sadly passed away on 21st…

Easter Alt Rock Style Well, not exactly an Easter song, but as Easter time is almost upon us...this is taken from the 1978 album by the Patti Smith Group called 'Easter' This is one of the tracks from it, 'Privilege (Set Me Free)', this track and the more obviously likely to be a hit 'Because The Night', originally penned by Bruce Springsteen were both released as singles. The latter being by far the more commercially successful reaching #5 in the…