The essential motive behind Good Old War’s music appears to be simple. ‘We wanted to make people feel good,’ Said Keith Goodwin, one of the trio of Tim Arnold and Dan Schwartz who are together Good,Old, and War. And listening to any Good Old War song, that is exactly how I feel. Good. The good varies; […]
David Renz is a schoolteacher in the Avon Grove School District, a husband, and a father. He is also a lover of jazz and a top-notch saxophone player who heads a collection of very good musicians collectively known as the Acoustic Groove Project.
I first heard the Project by accident. I was heading down to a wine shop at the local strip mall to […]
I love Circa Survive. When I saw their London tour date added, I got that nervous feeling of excitement in my stomach that I always get when a band I completely and genuinely admire announces they are coming to my part of town (or at least a section of town reachable by bus or train rather than the pricey plane option). […]
I don’t surf the web a lot any more. When I first got online, in 1998, I surfed like crazy. Then, like most other normal adults, I settled on a few web sites that I liked. Some of the sites I don’t visit anymore and others are regulars, such as the Den. However, there is still that rare occasion when I decide to […]
In southern Chester County, just below mushroom country, lies the small and pretty community of Landenberg, PA. Just a short ride below Landenberg, through some beautiful rural country, on Flint Hill Road, is the Paradocx vineyard and winery.
The Paradocx winery makes a variety of everyday table wines, mostly from locally grown grapes. The wines are tasty and […]
Concert, as a word, stands for harmony, accord, and connection. It stands for people coming together, for a music that can be sung as one. Times have changed since this word came into use, but semantics remain consistent. A great concert is one where there is a great connection, and when the concert in question is headlined by Good […]
Crowded House
Cardiff International Arena– 4th June 2010
It’s Friday night and Cardiff International Arena is packed out for this sit down Crowded House gig. The audience range from a young family of four with their daughter enthusiastically thrusting her teddy bear towards the stage to an elderly couple eagerly awaiting the bands presence. The range in audience age […]
The Trinity Centre in Bristol is fairly striking when you first come across it, especially if you’re not expecting it to be an old, majestic church building. However, on entering the centre it becomes fairly obvious from the presence of a bar that it is a church no longer. That and the presence of 65daysofstatic, of course. […]
It is hard for me to believe that the petite, self-assured woman standing in front of the assembled crowd is actually several years my junior. I get the impression she tires of hearing everyone talk of how mature her lyrics and music are for the youth of their creator, but even just standing there with her […]
Diana Vickers, Leadmill, Sheffield, Monday 17th May
Oh Diana Vickers. One of the many Marmites of the music world. Some of you may be able to hark back to the X Factor days, a competition in which the self-named “The Vickerage” ranked 4th in the final. Wooing some with her youthful, bare-footed, messy-blonde-haired, rasping-voiced naivety and sending others running […]
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