GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Oh, it’s a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short When you reach September.” – quoth Maxwell Anderson, ‘September Song’ November is dead! Long live December! The final month of the year is often quite a predictable one for most people, …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Thirty days has September, April, June, and November.” – quoth Anon. (and no it’s not cheating!) Remember remember the 5th of November, clarinets piccolos and flutes… And you might as well remember all the other days of the month while you’re at it, because it’s time …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance, With the stars up above in your eyes, A fantabulous night to make romance, ‘Neath the cover of October skies.” – quoth Van Morrison, ‘Moondance’ As the days continue to shorten and the nights to lengthen, we yet …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “The leaves of brown came tumblin’ down, remember, In September in the rain.” – quoth Al Dubin, ‘September in the Rain’ As we progress into the ninth month of the year it always feels to me as though things begin to slow down a bit. The …
As a long-time supporter of knitted, crocheted and otherwise hand-crafted musicians, it gives me great joy to share with you the cover of Ellen Tsai’s new EP ‘Windy Friends’! But to quote a phrase, “A cover is not the book so open it up and take a look,” or in this case, “A cover …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great, big, greedy nincompoop!” – quoth The Oompa Loompas, ‘Augustus Gloop’ Sure as eggs is eggs, August follows July, and thus it was no surprise for me to awake on the day after 31st July to find that I was yet …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “True love blooms for the world to see, Blooms high upon the July tree.” – quoth Nina Simone, ‘July Tree’ With the summer months now well and truly upon us and the academic year drawing to an end, July represents for many a period of winding …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “June is bustin’ out all over! All over the meadow and the hill” – quoth Oscar Hammerstein II, ‘June Is Bustin’ Out All Over’ This month’s Gig Review takes us all the way through to June – halfway through the year already, and I still haven’t …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields.” – quoth an unknown wellwisher from Ireland, ‘An Irish Blessing’ Well in case you hadn’t realised …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Though April showers may come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May; so if it’s raining, have no regrets because it isn’t raining rain you know, it’s raining violets.” – quoth B. G. De Silva, ‘April Showers’ Good grief is it that month …
