Matchbox 20 – Glasgow SECC – May 4th 2008

Though I’ve still to post some reviews regarding earlier gigs that I attended including the Mars Volta and PUSA, I thought that I’d quickly try and post a Matchbox 20 review while it was still fairly fresh in my mind. Matchbox 20 have been around for quite a few years now, originally starting as Tabitha’s …

Neil Young at Edinburgh Playhouse (pt 2)

Following my escapades on Monday night involving an amazing Neil Young concert, here’s some sort of write up/review thingummy. The Edinburgh Playhouse is a pretty good venue for music if it’s the kind where you’re sitting down and well not moshing or dancing in an extreme fashion etc. Unlike many other venues in Scotland it …

Neil Young at Edinburgh Playhouse

On Monday evening I was at an absolutely amazing gig – Neil Young playing at Edinburgh Playhouse. He started with an acoustic first half playing some absolute classics – Ambulance Blues; and A Man Needs A Maid; among others. He then came back for the second half with Crazy Horse to play some serious rock/grunge. …

Musical Recommendations!

Though I am presently unable to update the small album of the week selection at the top right of the page (my Wordpress plug-in writing knowledge does not extend to such heights as writing user interfaces, or at least text boxes where one can insert the name of the album and a link to the picture. So I have to wait till I go home and am able to edit the actual plug-in file. Oh well…), I really do have a few ideas as what the next album of the week may be.

Driving tests…

Quite a while back on this site I happened to post a picture of me and the car that I had at the time – a Peugeot 106. One that I was hopefully going to learn to drive on and pass my test in. Unfortunately this didn’t turn out to be the case due to a few small reasons… a) I’m not particularly lucky or skilled at driving tests (yeah, some of it is due to luck), and b) The bodywork didn’t reallyl last too long…