If you need a night at Glasgow Airport (GLA), you might be rather surprised about the rather wide range of options the area is giving you. There are at least five hotels in easy walking distance. For a trip in…
Weird Al Yankovic tours Europe 2023 – My Reprise
Ten shows within three weeks – I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band mates in Europe. I originally had very different travel plans. Even though these weeks have been hard and exhausting, I…
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 February 2023)
I love gathering songs for Songs of the Week, as the result is so unpredictable, even for me, until short before I really compose the best and most remarkable songs I found so far. In this edition, I finally ended up…
Riding the TransPennine Express Nova 2 / CAF Civity First Class
Traveling by rail is typically a bit of an extra adventure: the reliability is low, compared to other European countries. The network is in a rather poor state and on top of that rail strikes are not too uncommon. Thus,…
Joesef – Permanent Damage
Especially when you take in my that Scottish artist Joesef is just fully active since 2019, it is really amazing that some songs by the young artist have been streamed more than or about 30 million times with a single…
Weird Al Yankovic is touring Europe 2023 – Tour Dates and Travel Hints
The 7th November 2022 is one of these days I will hardly forget so quickly. In a Weird Al fan group on Facebook, somebody posted some United Kingdom tour dates for Weird Al Yankovic. And then there were more. Ireland,…
Simple Minds – Direction of the Heart
Don’t You (Forget About Me), Alive and Kicking or Belfast Child – the Simple Minds have been a huge band in the 1980’s. Even though their latest big single chart success She’s a River is dated as of 1995, the Scottish rockers are still very…
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 June 2022)
I am looking back to a really interesting week of music. For me personally, I have been so happy to be back in the concert photo pit on Sunday, watching Johnossi in Cologne. The list of songs in my Songs…