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OK so my aversion to Christmas music is well known. As pointed out on a previous blog, though, it isn't really about the music per se. In fact Christmas songs and carols are some of the best known and best loved songs out there. Little wonder, then, that they are some of the most covered songs in existence. "Silent Night", "White Christmas" and "Jingle Bells" are the most covered songs […]
I've built a bit of a reputation amongst my colleagues as a hater of Christmas music. And I must confess : it certainly is the case. When I hear a Mariah Carey Christmas tune I want to scream, or perhaps stick sharpened stakes into my ears to stop the torture... But it is not really Christmas music per se that I have a problem with. After some serious contemplation and […]
Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark are, to come extent, a dinosaur which, by rights, should be extinct as it has, by all measure, outlived its era and should no longer be popular or active. But they are. For those to young to know, OMD are an English electronic band formed in Merseyside in 1978. The group consists of founding duo and principal songwriters Andy McCluskey (vocals, bass guitar) and Paul […]
Duran Duran were at the forefront of the New Wave movement in the 1980's. Hugely popular with the fans, Duran Duran's music was often panned by the critics as "throwaway mindless pop". In fact, Moby said of the band in his website diary in 2003: "... they were cursed by what we can call the 'Bee Gees" curse, which is: 'write amazing songs, sell tons of records, and consequently incur […]
Riaan Smit, talented globetrotting Namibian musician who recently staged a hugely successful Johnny Cash tribute tour, entitled "Man in Black", recently made good on a promise he made before the tour. Riaan promised to donate 10% of the proceeds of the tour to the Sociaty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the SPCA. And he did just that...to the tune of a whopping N$ 6000! Thanks Riaan - […]
Diabetes is a disease that is growing rapidly and yet Type 2 Diabetes, which is mostly lifestyle-driven, is largely preventable. I had a chat with Dietician And Diabetes Educator Charlotte Thiele about diabetes... https://iono.fm/e/1380639
Consider two voices...both males who fronted bands who, in their own way, were at the forefront of music at different times. Their voices are in a different register, have very different timbre and were, in the original versions of the songs that made them famous, great in their own way. On one hand the tortured, nasal, almost whiny voice of Kurt Cobain singing the "theme track" of Grunge, Nirvana's "Come […]
Alice Cooper is a rock institution. There are very few artists who can boast 50 years front and centre in the music scene ...and yet Alice Cooper has been producing great albums for that long- in fact 29 studio albums and 50 singles. And there are very few of those that were not right up there in terms of quality. Cooper's back with a new album "Road". And it features […]
This past Saturday saw the third of the annual Gondwana trail runs, held at the Gondwana Moonraker Adventure Camp over distances of 20, 10 and 5 kilometers. Loads of entries and a great venue for a spectacular event. The Gondwana trail runs - Green Ridge, Moon Valley and Moonraker - are becoming must-do events on an already crammed events calendar. But if you haven't been, join us for the next […]
