It’s that time of the year again when I have some spare time to ponder the year gone by…and mainly I’m pondering the music from the year gone by. I feel like this year I’ve experienced less anticipation about albums but purchased more old music…however as I scroll through my iTunes library there are some   Read More …

I hate the majority of Christmas carols…in fact sit me in a carol service and I’ll stay quiet for a majority of the lyrics or moan about the theology (or lack of) behind them! A couple of years ago I decided to re-write ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ and actually add some theology to it and   Read More …

Whilst the amount of snow we have in South Cave is a pain (meaning that we have a dead boiler and that I’ve dug my car out numerous times in the last couple of days) it does mean I’ve been able to get some lovely photos. Here’s 3 of my favourites…

Perhaps one of the bands that have disappointed me the most in the last few years is Good Charlotte. Their album ‘The Young & The Hopeless’ was introduced to me when I was 16 by a friend in a youth group and as an album I love it and I still listen to it even   Read More …

Most people will be familiar with the catchy pop hit ‘Fireflies’ by Owl City aka Adam Young. Fireflies stuck at number one for several weeks earlier this year. Shortly after this period of time a campaign to get Delirious?’s ‘History Maker’ to number one for Easter was launched and finished at number 4 (I think).   Read More …

As Apple announced a new range of rather good looking iPods (although the new shuffle proves the world wasn’t ready for an ipod with no buttons) they also announced the launch of ‘Ping’, the Apple version of social networking…here’s what Apple say about it: There’s no better way to discover new music than to find   Read More …

Back in 2001 as a family we tuned into ‘Popstars’…a new concept as far as TV Shows went…as the weeks went on we went from seeing people audition to finally ending up with ‘Hear Say’. The show continued introducing us to the band as they recorded their first single and filmed their first music video   Read More …

Yesterday as we boarded the ferry to journey back to France after a week’s honeymoon I purchased ‘The Sun’ in order to catch up with the news in a format that my 5 hours-worth-of-driving brain could handle and it wasn’t the ‘coming out’ of X-Factor flop Joe McElderry the caught my eye (although his coming   Read More …

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m quite an Apple fan…I converted to Macs 2 and a half years ago and would never look back…my iPod has kept me company through many-a-journey and nothing out there compares to the Apple operating system and mp3 players. However the one product I was never sold   Read More …

Ever since back in January when Steve Jobs announced the iPad after many rumors anticipating the tablet device (I blogged on this here) I have been eagerly awaiting the chance to actually try one out. In my originally blog my initial thoughts of the iPad were mixed…you may remember me blogging: Whilst I think the   Read More …

Last night I finally got around to watching the 1950′s version of ‘House of Wax’ which I got on DVD a few months back. The 2005 remake is one of my favourite horror films both with plot and production so I was curious to see how different it was from the original. The original and   Read More …

Back in 2003 the Christian band Five Iron Frenzy called it a day…played their last gig at Filmore (USA) and the 9 piece band separated…I was 17 and had never heard of the band. It wasn’t until I was introduced to them by Ben & Hayley individually in 2004 that I eventually purchased their EP   Read More …