by JFR Kay | Dec 10, 2019 | #tunesday, Just Listening
The definitive Christmas Song? Close! An old chestnut. Roasting by an open fire. I’m nothing if not eclectic. I like to think my tastes are as selective as you get, individualistic and rarely influenced by the media or other populistic, lemming-attracting,...
by JFR Kay | Dec 5, 2019 | #tunesday, Just Listening
What’s more festive than food at Christmas? This is the story of #foodiewop. What to do with no idea and an exhibition stand A few years ago the extraordinary Hela Wozniak-Kay and I were wondering what would be a “good thing” to do just before...
by JFR Kay | Dec 3, 2019 | #tunesday, Just Listening
Advent. And why we love it #tunefully (even if we don’t always admit it) More #tunesdays than you can shake a sprig of mistletoe at Christmas is coming. Etcetera, etcetera. Every year, like most of us I’m sure, I think of The Festive Season first and...
by JFR Kay | Nov 12, 2019 | #tunesday, Just Listening
Happy Smoothsday Would you sell your soul for Total Control? One of the most wonderful things about what happened just after Punk happened is that otherwise dead smoochy, end-of-disco, slow, please-don’t-snog-me songs suddenly became edgy and intense. And really...
by JFR Kay | Nov 5, 2019 | #tunesday, Just Listening
Happy Smoothsday Something for Each and Everyone? So very nearly! I remember when I was a teenager that it was possible to love good ol’ fashioned swoonsome music. Particularly if the people responsible were dressed in long coats and groovy hairdos. This...
by JFR Kay | Oct 29, 2019 | #tunesday, Just Listening
Jacky Tunesday! Passion, purpose and lots and lots of perspiration This song is hot and breathless indeed. You can hear the sweat pouring off it. It’s a jaunty little number called La Chanson de Jacky by the Belgian chanter Jacques Brel. Even if you...
