/Tuesday Ten /607 /In This Together
This week’s post has been written from our remote cottages in the East Hampshire countryside, where we’re staying for the week with friends.
Category: /Tuesday Ten
Now ten years old and counting, my regular series of Tuesday posts takes in new music and sometimes rather random categories.
/Tuesday Ten /606 /I Pity Inanimate Objects
This is another of those /Tuesday Tens where the original inspiration for asking about this subject is likely lost to time. But, just to make sure we know what we’re talking about: “A living thing may be an object, and is distinguished from non-living things by the designation of the latter as inanimate objects. Inanimate […]
/Tuesday Ten /605 /Kitchen
Sometimes, I ask for submissions on a subject that I think will have loads of easy-to-use suggestions, and the reality is rather different: and so, it gets shelved for a while until the right time to use it comes up. This subject was one of those.
/Tuesday Ten /604 /Eat It
This is one of the rare times where I’m returning to a subject. I first wrote about food (and drink) on /Tuesday Ten /124, way back in March 2011, but the more I thought about it, the more I realised that most of the songs that I’d used at the time were barely about food, […]
/Tuesday Ten /603 /Tracks of the Month /Aug-25
September has arrived down here on the coast with a lot of rain, and intermittent sunshine: and with my hop plants due to harvest in the coming week or two, it definitely feels like autumn is here. Autumn also means the usual deluge of new releases, so this week’s /Tracks of the Month has expanded […]
/Tuesday Ten /602 /Infest: Shocks and Surprises
The recent edition of Infest being a week earlier than usual – and now that the festival appears to have moved to Manchester permanently – has had me in a reflective mood, especially as that was my 25th Infest (including the two online editions), having first attended in 2000, and of course there wasn’t one […]
/Tuesday Ten /601 /Desire Is A Mess
Back from what felt like a blink-and-you-miss-it Infest, and coverage of that will follow later this week. In the meantime, I prepared this mostly in the week before Infest to ensure it would be posted today.
/Tuesday Ten /600 /This Is The Day
/Tuesday Ten /600 arrives 6,714 days (or 18 years, 4 months and 17 days) since I posted /Tuesday Ten /001. In that time, I’ve lived in Sheffield, North London and now South East Kent, and I’ve attended 688 days of gigs and/or festivals and seen 1,961 live sets.
/Tuesday Ten /599 /The Garden of England
This Thursday (07-August) marks five years since the seed of moving to the Kent coast was planted. It was during a brief respite of the early lockdowns in summer 2020, when we could at least travel somewhere for a day, so for my birthday we got the train down to Folkestone, and got the bus […]
/Tuesday Ten /598 /Tracks of the Month /Jul-25
This month, I’m covering the best tracks of the month a week earlier than usual – mainly because I already had plans for /Tuesday Ten /599 and /600 that fit neatly in the next couple of weeks. That said, I already had enough tracks by this time last week, never mind this week, so there […]
/Tuesday Ten /597 /It’s Not Like That Anymore
Thirty years ago yesterday, I attended my first gig: Back to the Planet, Pop Will Eat Itself and Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Heineken Festival in Roundhay Park, Leeds, and I was back again on the Saturday for the “Britpop” day headlined by Pulp. It was a giant, four-day free festival that had a […]
/Tuesday Ten /596 /Under the Sea
Following on from Insects last week, I turn my attention to another part of animal kingdom this time around, and use up another older suggestion thread (from five years ago) in the process.
/Tuesday Ten /595 /Insect Nation
Some local friends of ours – who work at a local zoological park – also do wildlife education and outreach work as TOP Conservation, including monthly talks in Hythe at a bar we really like. Last month the talk was about insects, and a fascinating talk it was too.
/Tuesday Ten /594 /Tracks of the Month /Jun-25
It’s been a funny time in music and entertainment recently, with hysteria around political pronouncements at major events by bands that we’d expect to do so (and thus providing a distraction from the horrors of Gaza in particular), as well as the anti-Trans bullshit that is still being peddled, and a general feeling that it […]
/Tuesday Ten /593 /Do Do Do
As is often the way, small plans become bigger things, and this mini-series of posts about non-lexical vocables and exclamations in music turned out to be a fun trip into a bunch of songs I either didn’t know, or had not heard in some time. The original suggestion threads provided nearly 600 songs to choose […]
/Tuesday Ten /592 /Something Kinda Ooooh
Continuing this mini-series, here we are with part five: where we go “Ooh!”. This was an interesting one, with a bunch of what might be called novelty songs rubbing shoulders with bigger pop hits: so I went for both. This mini-series will conclude next week with “do do do”. Thanks, as ever, to everyone that […]
/Tuesday Ten /591 /La La La
I’ve had a lot of fun with this mini-series of posts of exclamations and wordless vocals – the suggestions and the types of songs that use them have perhaps resulted in some of the most eclectic /Tuesday Ten posts I’ve ever done.
/Tuesday Ten /590 /Tracks of the Month /May-25
Another month, another set of /Tracks of the Month.
/Tuesday Ten /589 /Woo!
Right then: part three of exclamations, and we’re onto “Woo!” this week.
/Tuesday Ten /588 /Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
I now turn to the second of what will be six posts about exclamations or fill-ins in songs. After “Hey!” last week, this week we’re going “Na Na Na”.