LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR

First drafts of history are never neat. Take for example the first John Peel Festive Fifty . (Where listeners chose their favourite numbers...

“They had it in for us, didn't they? Right from the beginning. Who'd have thought that we were so important..?” “To be told so littl...

Our next Lucid Frenzy playlist  on Spotify steps out with Lankum’s characteristically existential take on Irish folk, which shapeshifts into...

(with some PLOT SPOILERS) “You wish to sack Heaven?”  “Yes, I wish to lay open it’s treasures to the world.” “This is to my liking.” The sce...

National Portrait Gallery, London   “We are human beings, our greatest obsession is with ourselves.” - Bacon The Self As A Moving Target Fir...

(A sequel of sorts to my take on ‘Visions Of Johanna.’) ’All Along the Watchtower’ (from ’John Wesley Harding’) is is one of those Bob Dylan...

“Johanna may not even be real. But she is an addiction” - Rolling Stone The finest songs are not always the most immediate. I doubt if anyon...

The next Lucid Frenzy playlist starts off with the one song-based team-up of John Cale and Terry Riley. The platters that matter then inclu...

(The third part of 'Everybody's Happy Nowadays', a look at politics, how it hits our daily lives and how we can hit it back. It ...