by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 24, 2019 | Entertainment, Music
MOMENT IN THE SUN: LOVE SONGS When I think back to my teenage years, a soundtrack starts playing in my head. It is the mournful accompaniment to the images of me sitting alone in my bedroom in a well of unrequited love, or sitting at the bottom of the stairs waiting...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jan 27, 2019 | Arts, Music
Last week I did something I have previously only done by accident. I turned on Radio 3. Long standing readers of my blog will know that I am a dyed-in-the-wool Radio 4 listener. I love speech radio. The voices of Radio 4 presenters are as familiar to me as those of...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 18, 2018 | Arts, Music
“Jesus Christ, what are we listening to now?” Saturday night at our house. We are expecting guests for dinner and I have hit ‘shuffle’ on all songs in my iTunes library because creating a music playlist now will require time I could otherwise spend ensuring the...