Working Wednesdays: Managing a Rock Band
Of course travel leads you to random job opportunities all the time, some voluntary, some well paid, some just for the hell of it and others because of a pure passion for something (such as…
My Top 10 Travel Tunes!
Travellers need music. Sometimes it’s the only thing that keeps me sane on my days of endless bus, train and plane journeys. I have owned an iPod (the same one) for 6 years now, since…
Rock and Roll Bands: Manic Street Preachers
I’m surprised its taken me this long to actually do a full post on the Manic Street Preachers, probably my second favourite band of all time (behind Oasis). I’ve been lucky enough to see them…
Manic Street Preachers – International Treasures: Tokyo, Japan🗾🇯🇵18.05.2012
Manic Street Preachers first came into my ears about 20 years ago, in 1992 when on a chance radio listen, I was enthused by their hit single “Suicide Is Painless” (Theme From M.A.S.H.). At the…
“If you wanna be my baby, it don’t matter baby yeah yeah yeah…” Michael Jackson
It really doesn’t matter…but it once did and in some parts of the world it still does and always will. BUT IT SHOULDN’T, OK. I’m hardly justified by posting this, but having now returned to…
Heading To Antarctica🇦🇶: Goodnight Planet Earth, As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
“It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine” – Michael Stipe. It was all so surreal like a childhood dream or a Norman Whiteside World Cup goal. Back in…
The Last Plane Out Of Sydney’s Almost Gone
Not quite, and “hardly end of the rainbow stuff” (as Del Boy once said to Rodney in ‘Only Fools And Horses’) but I have a flight booked out of Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport this very…
Manic Street Preachers are back!!
As if they were ever away…last year’s highly acclaimed album, “Journal For Plague Lovers” ranks amongst the best I’ve ever bought. A band with meaningful lyrics. A band drenched deep in history, culture, travel and…
Brunswick Hotel, Victoria Tavern, Glentoran v Dundee United, Bushmills and The Charlatans
My second time in Hobart was three months after my first time. And I’ll be back again next week to watch the World Cup with a Northern Irish mate. It’s a city that has grown…
“Here’s A Truck Stop Instead Of St. Peter’s – Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah”
“Here’s a truck stop instead of St. Peter’s Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah”, I have to admit that I don’t have a clue what that means. I am often confused by lyrics, and especially some of…