Archive for 2022/04


Hayes Carll-This Week’s Podcast

Hayes Carll is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Texas. We discuss how he performed virtually during the pandemic, as well as what it’s like to be a touring musician singing his truth today and the tension between needing to have a presence online yet still focus on the work. Hayes also describes what it’s like to […]

Leo Sayer Responds

Hey Bob, You may not know it, but I’ve long admired your writing. So it was that I was quite taken aback when a friend of mine in the States mentioned that you’d written a piece entitled ‘Living In A Fantasy’ – taking inspiration from my 1980 song. It’s a beautifully written article (as always) […]

The Tony Hawk Documentary

It’s all about the personal. This is a must for skateboarding fans, for everyone else? I don’t know. Felice watched it separately and loved it. But one thing’s for sure, this is a movie about skateboarding, too often docs focus on the penumbra, not the core, like music documentaries that don’t feature the music, but […]

Living In A Fantasy

Is everything disposable? Does everything have a lifespan? Seemingly every day a song gets stuck in my head, I wake up singing it to myself. And usually I can’t figure out what started it. Two days ago it was the Hollies’ “Carrie Anne.” Today it’s Leo Sayer’s “Living in a Fantasy.” You probably know the […]