March 4th 2020. That was the last time I saw/heard live music in a concert hall. To be precise, that was when I saw Jon Hopkins at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh (pic above) and it was bloody magnificent. Seems like a lifetime ago, though. Live music has been a constant thread throughout my adult…
Category: music
Good night, John Boy.
It’s hard to say goodbye to John Prine. When the news came through that he had been hospitalised with Covid-19, of course you feared the worst but there was also part of you that said: ‘this is John Prine – he’ll be just fine’. John, you told yourself, had survived two lots of cancer and…