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Payazén — the finest buskers in the world?
We saw Amsterdam based Klezmer/Gypsy/Balkans band Payazén busking in York this week. I've no idea who the real finest buskers in the world are, but, if you want my opinon, Payazén have got to be up there with the best. As a former street performer myself, I always look at who's doing and what they're about with some interest. To me, there [...]
The ten best guitar solos of all time
Enough of the summer reading. What about the summer listening? There was a phase — I think from about 1990 until about 2000, when you weren't supposed to talk about guitar solos, lead guitar playing, or anything of that ilk. The guitarist's job was to strum in a jangly fashion (indy) or with arpeggio like strums (pop). Naturally, guitar bands [...]
A cure for boredom: The everything else of eBay
Bored by the endless monotony of waiting for the British summer to appear (ignore this if reading in another country)? No longer thrilled by reading the latest antics at MyLifeis Average? Facebook not doing it for you? Rather than surfing the web in the hope of finding something interesting, have you ever wandered through the bizarre, misspelled, [...]
Why Britain needs Labour to find its feet — fast
BBC News - Will geeks inherit the earth?. Like it or not (and I don't), our electoral system is locked into "us" and "them". Government and official opposition. That's how the system works and, though I believe it's time to change it, as long as it is the system (to paraphrase Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force), we have to make it work. Until [...]
