The year seems to be hotting up - the weather is sweltering and the music scene is bubbling away, because this is Festival Time.From almost the beginning of January... Read More

I don't normally write about past events, but the Hollies concert at Mills Reef last weekend deserves a mention.Until almost the last minute it looked as though... Read More

Despite the programme being launched back in December I haven't really written about the National Jazz Festival, which is a bit naughty.It's almost becoming easy... Read More

It's only a couple of weeks until the Marchwood Blues Picnic, February 5 to be exact, and I'm really looking forward to this unique event. I like the Marchwood Blues... Read More

The other day a friend of mine pointed out how extraordinary it is that we are living in the year 2011, and I agree with him.I, like most of you, was born in the... Read More

Recently at the Watusi Country Club I attempted to grow vegetables for the first time. This is not a matter of great import since hundreds - probably thousands -... Read More

Sometimes columns just turn into lists, and this looks like one of them.On the minus side they're not the most interesting thing in the world to read; on the plus... Read More

Time to continue with the musical Christmas list - so many presents so little time…Last week I started looking at events you can buy tickets for: I mentioned... Read More

I can't believe we're a third of the way through December; stop the clocks now, this year's getting out of hand.It just caught up with me out of the blue and, once... Read More

Good old Fred 'n' Barney, I'm sure going to miss them. Like half the musical world and many others I've been reading Life, Keith Richards' 550-page trawl through... Read More

Great albums are like buses - you wait and wait for one to come and then two arrive almost at once.I regularly have little get-togethers of musicians here at the... Read More

You never know when you're going to inadvertently offend someone, and after last week's column, I find myself apologising again.You would have thought a review (and... Read More