Music, pfft. My hard drive kaput earlier this year, so I have spend a grand proportion uploading my CD collection and using the opportunity to listen through whole albums again; something I've not done for many years. This has meant many rediscoveries rather than new finds. I think the only recording this year that I've really enjoyed was Prefab Sprout! Although I also discovered Bread this year, who really lifted my spirits.
Honourable mention has to go to Jonny Trunk, whose website I have used for a while now to pick up odds and ends, but whose 50p Friday promotion this year was made me arrange my life so I can get to a computer I can use to take advantage one day a week!
But my day five highlight has to be the Mike Harding Folkshow. Turning adversity into opportunity, these weekly podcasts are a vital stream of varied and beautiful music that give me a route into a world that I wish I had better, easier access to, and done with genuine enthusiasm and charm that seems so much more at ease then when he broadcast for the beeb.
And it's an hour and a half every week, and it's free. It deserves support, because it's a treasure. EVERY SUNDAY FOLKS; THAT'S TODAY!
http://www.mikehardingfolkshow.com/
I have to admit I get mildly frustrated with people who claim to be curious about music, but who don't listen to Late Junction on BBC Radio 3, Stuart Maconie's Freakshows and this. I'm learning to shrug and go on my way.
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