Nothing Ever Happens
Christianity has always been a fundamental part of me. My earliest memory is of crouching beneath a pew in the parish church where my family would worship when I was a child. My mother became a priest when I was eight. I sang in a church choir every Sunday and I’ve heard more sermons than [&hellip
Niche Numbers: #6
Jamie Tahsin and Jake Kennedy bring you some more of their favourite songs with < 50,000 views on YouTube. Episode Six.
On this day: The Joshua Tree
It’s a puzzle, liking U2. They make it so easy, and yet they make it so hard. From their post-punk 80’s through their post-modern 90’s to their post-post-modern 00’s and beyond, they’ve bombarded an impressionable world with suitably impressionistic music, music whose core concern often se
The Commercialisation of House Music
It’s 6am, and the sun is slowly rising over a dishevelled festival campsite in Croatia. White tank tops tucked into their shorts, backwards caps and man bags all in tow, the male population of this ethereal paradise are largely indistinguishable from each other as they blunder their way back to th
On This Day: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
I’ve always been slightly obsessed by ‘the canon’ of rock music, and, despite its dubious authority, I’ve ultimately been thankful for it, too. It’s a good place to start and not a bad place to finish, and while it may delimit, it also guides; while it may baffle the few, it makes great se
The ISIS Presents: Disco Stu’s
Next up in our Isis Presents series, it’s one of everyone’s favourites: Disco Stu’s! This mix comes courtesy of their resident Comfort, bringing you the funkiest disco to relieve those fourth week blues.
On This Day: Paul Simon
Anybody who, like me, spent at least one fifth of their childhood dinner-times in the welcome company of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water cannot have helped forming an opinion on the relative artistic merits of Art Garfunkel. For better or worse, it seems to me that Garfun
Niche Numbers: #4
Jamie Tahsin and Jake Kennedy bring you some more of their favourite songs with < 50,000 views on YouTube. Episode #4