A&Rmchair

A&Rmchair is a blog about being old enough to remember seeing the Clash, whilst noting that quite a lot has changed since then. A&R, stands for Artists and Repertoire - a job I performed for years with the skill and determination of a vindictive traffic warden; Armchair is the leather one I currently sit in, scribbling and occasionally getting up to play Side Two.

Saturday, 17 September 2016

I love music so why can't I get excited about hi-fi?

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Last week I was asked to write another column for BBC's Front Row. (you can listen to it  here  by the way, about 3 minutes towards the ...
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Monday, 25 July 2016

Oh No! He's written a poem...

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Given that more prosaic areas of my life have temporarily swallowed up regularly entries here, I took it upon myself to write a poem on...
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Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Why Do We Listen To Music?

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Today I listened to Gregory Porter’s ‘ Hey Laura ’. It’s from his first album, Liquid Spirit, which I came late to. Strange because th...
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Thursday, 28 January 2016

The Post Bowie Vacuum Finally Begins to Fill

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Of course, the first thing you'd expect here would be a nice picture of The Dame. I don't think you need to see another one, do yo...
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015

A Trip to The Thing: About Secondhand Record Hunting.

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I'm sitting in reception at BBC's New Broadcasting House. I'm reasonably familiar with it as I have a few friends here, but this...
Saturday, 21 November 2015

Devo, The Adicts, Benjamin Clementine and Motörhead.

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If you read this with any regularity you may have noticed, perhaps with some disdain, that you are here far more regularly than I am. I ap...
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I was born the year after the Beatles broke big, grew up on Pertwee, Peel and Rotten, went to school in South London, fell in love with a German, studied it at Manchester Uni, played bass, guitar and drums, got a job in A&R, signed some famous groups, signed more non-famous groups, got married, got employed by Damien Hirst and fired by Joe Strummer, learned to type and started writing ...
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