Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 24th October, 2008
Is it really eighteen years since a heady combination of Tuscan sun and European novels engendered this little riff? AH, WILHELM! How can life simultaneously and at the same time be so deliciously exhilarating and yet so perplexing? Why is my life such a trial? Consider but this instance alone, about which I intend forthwith [...]
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 12th July, 2006
DJ Dab Boy and myself have been having some fun with Audacity. Boy, mixing and cutting up isn’t half hard work: imagine how long it must have taken DJ Food ages to make Raiding The 20th Century, or DJ Dangermouse to do the Grey Album? (Dangermouse says he spent a fortnight on the Grey Album: [...]
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 5th January, 2004
I like to check out eBay occasionally and see if anyone out there is paying silly money for records that I’ve got in my collection, and can bear to be parted from. Perhaps unsurprisingly, eBay’s international global community looks with particular favour on anything to do with the Beatles, and I’ve been keeping an eye [...]
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 30th October, 2003
The Guardian’s review of Tobias Jones’s new book, The Dark Heart of Italy strikes more than a few familiar notes, particularly for anyone familiar with Poggibonsi! The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones Faber, £7.99 On holiday in Italy again this year, for the umpteenth time, I really began to notice that there was [...]