BBC 4 must know that I’ve turned 50. The whole evening has been filled with prog music! Hooray! We’ve had everything from the late 60s right through to the present. Well done BBC 4!
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
BBC 4 Celebrates My Birthday
Saturday, July 24th, 2010Chickens
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010A fellow Flower King fan, Angela Shultz of Progger Productions, has created a wonderful video of my favourite Flower Kings song. The chickens bear an uncanny resemblance to the Flower Kings themselves.
Taste That Ash?
Friday, May 21st, 2010You know, I think a fair bit of that volcanic ash is diffusing down to ground level here in Scotland. I’ve had a dry throat for a couple of days and now I can definitely smell burnt dust in the air. I hope it clears over the coming week as I’ve got some singing to do with Arbelos when we play the Newbattle Abbey College Celtic Festival on Saturday 29th.
Does anyone else smell this volcano or have respiratory problems?
The air tastes like it's been imported from Mars.
More Apollo Anniversaries
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
I just found a great website, maintained by the BBC. They’ve compiled many of their recordings of TV coverage from the Apollo era in a Moon Landings Archive. Here you can watch the same news coverage that we, in the UK, saw at the time, as well as some more recent documentary shows.
Also we are coming up to a big anniversary. 14th April will mark 40 years since the accident that prevented Apollo 13 landing on the Moon. This is close to the date for Yuri’s Night (12th April) and will likely be a focus for space enthusiasts around the world. Arbelos hopes to perform a new song for Apollo 13 at the Dumfries Yuri’s Night party on 10th April.