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Well, once again for another year Halloween is upon us, time just flies by! Maybe it is just a sign of getting a bit older, maybe I wasn't as aware when I was young and too busy enjoying other things rather than noticing, perhaps it is even just simply having a dog to walk that I really notice the way that the seasons change so much more than I feel I ever used to. Plants and trees dying off for…

Recently London has what is called an 'Open House Festival' which runs this year from 14th - 22nd September, but if you missed out this year it will be back again for 2025 I am sure with many and often different venues to visit, keep an eye open for it at the link above. In short, the Festival allows ordinary 'Joe Public' into houses, buildings, gardens over London's 33 boroughs that would normally be off bounds, but during September London…

Well, back to some more 'independent' sounds for this post, featuring another area in London and weaving it in with a recent trip 'up smoke', to be honest it has been nice to have a 'divergence' away from the usual style of music for a change and I am sure I will go a bit AWOL again in some future posts, so please 'bear with' and enjoy. So for this post I am hitting South East London and some sounds…

Now this band and this album bring back so many good memories, which is what, at least for me this website is about. I brought the album on vinyl when it was released shortly after starting my first full time job, so I guess I had a little cash to splash. I seem to remember buying this album and also 'Head On The Door' by The Cure around about that time. I still vividly remember the 'feel', 'the smell' and…

I feel more content not posting stuff quite as frequently and the schedule of two posts per month for me at least seems to be a tad more comfortable, I think I'd like to continue in this vein for a while (unless I have anything so urgent it just can't wait, but I have a feeling that might just be unlikely😁). So, already this year the months are just flying by and we are hurtling our way towards Spring at…