My Country Music Picks – Christmas Songs 2020 (29th November 2020)
by Doing things once is an innovation, doing it the second time makes it turn into a tradition: after I did a special Christmas edition of …
Tag: United Kingdom
Anything dealing with the United Kingdom / Great Britain (and I do enclose the Isle of Man in here… :) )
Gary Barlow – Music Played by Humans
Seven years and two days – it feels like ages since Gary Barlow released his last solo album. On 27th November 2020, he released his …
The train to Hogwarts? King’s Cross, Platform 9 3/4 (Pictured Story)
I am not too much in Harry Potter – but therefor, my wife is compensating my lack of knowledge. After I introduced you to the …
My Country Music Picks (16th November 2020)
I typically aimed to publish my Country Music Picks every six to eight weeks roughly – but after my last edition in mid-June 2020, I absolutely …
Ross Antony – Lass es glitzern (Weihnachten mit Ross)
The story of Ross Antony is quite amazing: having an English education as a musical artist, Antony is nowadays a well-respected artist in the German …
Songs Of My Life: Ultravox – Hymn
Give us this day all that you showed me // The power and the glory // ‘Til my kingdom comes – the song Hymn by …
Sam Smith – Love Goes
There have been a lot of album postponements due to Covid-19 – a lot of them were just pushed as companies and artists felt that …
Elvis Costello – Hey Clockface
Radio, Radio – I have a very special relation to this Elvis Costello classic: whenever something goes completely wrong at a Weird Al Yankovic concert, the …
Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Terminal 2/3
I would say that the opening of the Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Terminal 2/3 has been one of the key additions of the Hilton …
Katie Melua – Album No. 8
Katie Melua was huge when she sang about bicycles in Beijing. Step by step, the focus of the music industry moved away from her, but …
bett1HULKS Indoors 2020: Gonzales (MEX) / K. Skupski (GBR) – Nielsen (DEN) / Puetz (GER) 4-6 6-1 10-5
I just stayed on the smaller Court 1 after Divij Sharan’s 1st round match at the bett1HULKS Indoors in Cologne to see one of Germany’s …
The Struts – Strange Days
Even despite their first two albums had rather average success, The Struts gained a lot of reputation in Great Britain over the last years. With …