Today we got a feel for what internet radio could be like in the near future….silence!
Listening to internet radio for at least an hour occurs at least 5 days out of 7 for me. I enjoy an eclectic mix of music, most of it through Pandora or my iTunes catalogue and IPod, as I can [...]
The latest addition to my Internet entertainment world is Pandora. This is Internet radio with a difference and has got many techies out there excited. Input an artist or song name into the player, and using the music genome project Pandora will create a radio station just for you based on your initial selection. Tell [...]
On Saturday night, Susan and Jenny took me along to see Women with Standards at the Gilded Balloon (Teviot). A group of 4 Australian vocalists and a local jazz trio making the most of some powerful voices belting out not only Jazz standards but other Diva-esque songs. And boy can those Women sing. I don;t [...]
The Filthy Six are a Soul Jazz Funk sextet from London. Having read reasonably good things about them, I decided to go along to the Lot and check them out.
An interesting mix of players, as with many fringe music events they were using session players to cover for those with real jobs!! However the [...]
The Edinburgh Festival is almost upon us again. One of the better sides of living in Edinburgh is that once a year, everything by way of entertainment comes to you. Whether it be opera, jazz, blues or any other sort of music you can think of; theatre; musical theatre; dance or comedy, the Fringe has [...]