Category Archives: Arts

Beloe Zlato and the Five Year Plan

Posted on Wednesday 6 April 2022 by Rob Godfrey

I came across this group quite recently. At first I thought they were part of the tidal wave of Ukrainian propaganda, but then realised that they are actually a Russian folk ensemble. Their name, Beloe Zlato, means ‘white gold’. They … Continue reading →

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Covid Protest Songs from Lesser Known Artists

Posted on Friday 28 January 2022 by Rob Godfrey

Covid protest songs have been released by high profile musos such as Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and Right Said Fred (see my post here). There’s a few others, such as Roger Waters, who have been outspoken, but other than that … Continue reading →

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Beasley Street

Posted on Thursday 13 January 2022 by Rob Godfrey

Gawd, have I been having problems with the techy side of this blog. If I were paranoid I would venture that the blog’s been hacked again. Anyhows, here’s the boss of Pfizer earlier this week stating that the jabs are … Continue reading →

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Rob’s Radio Hour No.5

Posted on Sunday 2 January 2022 by Rob Godfrey

The winter of 2010. Sub-zero temperatures, again. I had a big wood burning stove at the time, and used to put my recording desk as close to it as possible, without everything catching fire. Anyhows, if interested, a bit of … Continue reading →

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The Unforgiven – would you forgive them?

Posted on Monday 27 December 2021 by Rob Godfrey

In my previous post I was banging on about how I’m presently living in a caravan for two weeks, while we have guests in the gite, and it’s the first time I’ve been caravan bound in fierce weather since the … Continue reading →

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Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Posted on Wednesday 15 December 2021 by Rob Godfrey

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon album was released in 1973. The final two tracks on The Dark Side of the Moon are called Brain Damage and Eclipse. These tracks are about Syd Barrett (a founding member of … Continue reading →

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The World’s Gone Fucking Mad

Posted on Monday 13 December 2021 by Rob Godfrey

I’ve been driving everyone mad with this one just recently. I do like it because it’s so well done on a musical level… We are now up to almost 2000 vaccine related deaths in the UK and more than a … Continue reading →

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The Sound of Silence

Posted on Wednesday 23 June 2021 by Rob Godfrey

The Sound of Silence is a song that propelled Simon & Garfunkel to popularity in the mid sixties. Paul Simon wrote it in response to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and the duo began to play … Continue reading →

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Right Said Fred

Posted on Tuesday 22 June 2021 by Rob Godfrey
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Forever Changed

Posted on Saturday 20 February 2021 by Rob Godfrey

This one is so pertinent to what’s going on at the moment Following the death of Andy Warhol, who died from a routine gall bladder operation in 1987 (I know, not much of a rock ‘n roll death), in 1990 … Continue reading →

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How To Use An Electric Guitar…

Posted on Thursday 18 February 2021 by Rob Godfrey

On a soaking wet station platform in Manchester: Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of those people who are not generally known about. She quite literally started rock ‘n roll, long before Elvis & Co. Tharpe grew-up in apartheid America, and … Continue reading →

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Don’t Get Angry, Get Even

Posted on Saturday 6 February 2021 by Rob Godfrey

I dunno, it’s difficult to bang on about the covid crap all the time. This recent one, though, made me laugh… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9204555/Police-break-French-warehouse-orgy-involving-100-people.html In France at the moment there’s no restrictions on how many people you can have in your home … Continue reading →

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Le Chant des Partisans

Posted on Tuesday 12 January 2021 by Rob Godfrey

I live in a part of south west France where the Resistance were most active. In Chabanais, which is just down the road from me, there is the Rue du 1 Aout, a short road that ends at the riverbank, … Continue reading →

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David Bowie – Look at Those Cave Men Go

Posted on Sunday 10 January 2021 by Rob Godfrey

Today is the fifth anniversary of the death of David Bowie (he died at the age of 69 from liver cancer), so, any excuse to play some Bowie tracks… David Bowie spent the mid seventies in Los Angeles, where he … Continue reading →

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Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake

Posted on Thursday 31 December 2020 by Rob Godfrey

The Small Faces were a Beat band formed in London in 1965 by Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston (who was soon replaced by Ian McLagan). Heavily influenced by American rhythm and blues, they later evolved into … Continue reading →

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