I like to go out and find things I didn’t know I was looking for. It’s how I find most of the books I end up buying, and the two novels and a record I’ve brought home with me just now. I’d walked out restlessly into the rain that’s now fallen all day. Summer rain […]
Tag Archives: LPs
On a Saturday Morning
I’m going to add this one to my university ‘Fieldnotes’ collection of blog posts. Not because it deals with anything particularly academic, but because it’s about taking time off. Something that’s turning out to be more essential to this new learning phase of my life than I thought it was going to be. I’d known […]
For the Love of Record Shops: Defend Vinyl
As Record Store Day 2018 approaches this weekend, an appreciation. I’m keen on high streets, as you may have noticed, reasoning they’re not only essential for the well-being of our neighbourhoods but also in defining who we are and where we’re from. As in: ‘I’m Ronnie Hughes, I live just off Smithdown Road in Liverpool, […]
Still Bill: On appreciating Bill Withers
I don’t write as much about music on this blog as I’d thought I would when I started it nearly five years ago. But I want to write briefly about it today because lately I’ve been thinking about Bill Withers and listening to a lot of his music. Let’s go back to the last time […]
The Darkling
Out walking this Sunday late in November it feels as if the light of the day is already waning at just after one o’clock. I decide I’ll take some photographs for a blog post called ‘The Darkling.’ My long used phrase for this time of the year where the days are made up of progressively […]
On Smithdown: Defend Vinyl
Defend vinyl? Of course I do. Since I returned to buying LPs several years ago many of my happiest hours have been spent in record shops and charity shops doing the ‘flicking through LPs’ thing I’d thought I’d left long behind me. But until recently there hadn’t been a proper record shop I could go […]
