The sound of silence

I bought the earplugs pictured below at the tail end of last year in anticipation of a busy concert schedule in 2020. I’ve never worn ’plugs to gigs before but, after two particularly noisy experiences last summer (Garbage and Skunk Anansie), and having chatted to a cousin and fellow gig veteran, I decided now was…

No Time To Die, Billie Eilish

So many column inches have already been consumed by the upcoming 25th James Bond movie, I think there’s a good chance we’re all bored of it even before it’s hit the screens. Eleventh-hour change of directors, the late employment of star-of-the-moment Phoebe Waller-Bridge to rework the script, and the never-ending speculation as to who’ll be…

Steve Hogarth, at St John the Evangelist, Oxford

I like going to see live music.  Whether this be an O2 filling big name or a local guy in the corner of a cafe.  I don’t play an instrument and I definitely can’t sing, but time and again a gig is what I head to when looking to escape for a while.   I’m not a drug…