Tim Worstall

She sang on the regional opera circuit in Germany and was regarded as “quite famous” around Baden-Wuerttemberg.

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Lloyd Webber sequel cursed by plot
What? It has one perhaps?
Bit dangerous for a musical isn’t it?

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Modern classical music is so widely disliked by audiences because the human brain struggles to find patterns it needs to understand the compositions as music.
So, let us start at the beginning. Music is what the human brain recognises as music: if it ain’t so recognised then it’s noise. Humans do not recognise “modern music” as [...]

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In the index of hymnwriters, I see ‘Swann, Donald Ibrahim’. ‘Eh?’ I think, ‘the Donald Swann?’
The hymn tune listed is called ‘Flanders’. Well, it would have to be, wouldn’t it.

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The choir features women – and the occasional man – from all walks of life. Children are also welcome to join, and the singers range in age from six-year-olds to septuagenarians. Groups meet across the country and an inability to hold a tune is no barrier [...]

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I think we’ve done this before but why not again?
The greatest piece of children’s television ever ever.

And from quite possibly the greatest movie ever ever.

And the connection is?

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Absolutely nothing like a decent blues chug.
Do note both Dave Edmunds and Steve Cropper…..and then on the other side, note the trumpeter. Who knew you could have both a perm and a mullet?

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The Southern Baptists that is.

People really shouldn’t have sex, it might lead to outbreaks of dancing.

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We all know that the decline of pirates causes global warming.
But only recently have we discovered that the crappiness of modern music is leading to peak oil.
Now there will of course be those who reject this, simply some sort of correlation, not causation.
But we should note that the proof here is substantially more rigourous than [...]

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This isn’t going to last long.
A US website has all of the Beatles (yes, all, including the new remasters) either free as a stream or for 15p a track.
Here.
EMI is doing its nut as they don’t seem to have permission.
If you’re actually into the music of half a century ago might be time to fill [...]

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Bloke I met in the pub last night says that his brother is something to do with this band, the Brisboys.

Given that I know absolutely nothing about this type of music I’ll leave others to judge the quality. But I do very much admire the name of the band.

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There’s a reason for this:
“People have told me, ‘you could just go out there and play guitar and sing your songs like Paul McCartney’, but I’d be too bored,” she says.
“Most of the joy of the shows is the magic of creating them: theatre. I’m a perfectionist. I like [...]

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The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I’d bump in to people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman.
Chris Rea.
(And no, it doesn’t happen that way.)

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Trolling though YouTube in the background while doing a boring job I found this.

Yes, rock and roll bagpipes. There’s even a bagpipe/guitar double solo.
They really were on the booze those lads, weren’t they?

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Music piracy is having a dangerous effect on British music, but some rich and successful artists such as Nick Mason, of Pink Floyd, and Ed O’Brien, of Radiohead, don’t think so. Last week, they told The Times that file sharing is fine. It probably is for them. They do sell-out arena tours [...]

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Gary Barlow The musician and song-writer around whom the band was initially built, his was the most anticipated solo career. Instead he would recall “watching with horror” as Williams shot into the stratosphere while he earned a living writing songs for Donny Osmond.

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And then there is the downright peculiar. Someone, for example, has recorded an Assamese woodworm as it chews away at a window frame at 4am with crickets chirruping away in the background. “It is not easy to record a woodworm,” said Fargion.
Will this be the source for Moby’s next record?
(For those unaware, Moby’s big hit, [...]

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You get to play guitar with Eric Clapton and he plays rhythm for the people have come to see your guitar playing.

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Rev. Charles Boykin — who once told Mike Royko that “There’s a definite relationship between illicit sex and any music with a syncopated beat”
But the Reverend was right: thank goodness.

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