Music

Apocalypse Weekend

Now, here’s a thing. That great man Cosmic Smiles has posted the whole of the ‘Apocalypse Weekend’ Sheep Music feature film on You Tube. I wrote most of the ‘script’. The crew had been filming the festival for a few years, and wanted to try their hands at something a bit more structured. My idea was for a series of ‘walk about’ performances which . . . → Read More: Apocalypse Weekend

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HSBC and the virtue of profit.

I think this blog is going to be about economics.  I’m not an economist. But since they seem to know bugger all anyway, I don’t see why any entirely unqualified bloke-in-the-pub shouldn’t chip in, and make just as little sense as anyone else.

 

The global economy is almost five times the size it was half a century ago. If it continues to grow . . . → Read More: HSBC and the virtue of profit.

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Decades of fun at Radio Free Radnorshire

So, to celebrate the new Decade, we here at Radio Free Radnorshire have been speculating thusly; which was the best year for popular music in each of the decades of poppy rockin’? We have chosen six years, one from each of the Fifties, the Sixties, the Seventies, the Eighties, the Nineties and the Noughties. We didn’t feel really competent to comment on the Noughties, . . . → Read More: Decades of fun at Radio Free Radnorshire

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The Seventies revisited and other matters

Hard to know where to go tonight. The news is full of the IMF coming in to prop up failing economies, Lib-Lab pacts, swingeing public spending cuts, and Blair Peach. I guess that takes us here…

And, yes, I was there. It’s coming back…

Then I read about David Cameron being attacked for wanting to fund ‘special schools’.  I used to think that ‘inclusion’ . . . → Read More: The Seventies revisited and other matters

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Oh, sod it…

…after all, Sunday Night is supposed to be Music Night here on Radio Free Radnorshire.

I was going to blog a rant about the inequity of a voting system that might see the New Party get the smallest number of votes and still get the largest number of seats, but that’s based on ‘uniform swings’, and I am to psephology what Gordon Brown is . . . → Read More: Oh, sod it…

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