Contemporary Folk 4. Culture Club
Despite some mainstream success the genre prefers to stay rooted in folk traditions and artists tend to frequent their own circles,...
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Martin Lumsden
- Mar 11, 2015
- 4 min
Contemporary Folk 3. Folk Rocks
After Dylan, folk singers and their music opened up to pop/rock production techniques and instrumentation, and the songs about the...
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Martin Lumsden
- Feb 19, 2015
- 6 min
Contemporary Folk Music 2. History
Prior to the mainstream success of Bob Dylan folk performers tended to interpret classic songs of the genre or wrote broad-based, topical...
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Martin Lumsden
- Feb 16, 2015
- 3 min
Contemporary Folk Music 1. Introduction
“What draws me to traditional music is that the songs are there to do a job, to tell a story, to make work easier. There’s no pomposity...
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Martin Lumsden
- Jan 14, 2015
- 2 min
Two Funky
During the summer I studied at Music Production at IMW in London. It was largely a taster course although it did come with the sweetener...
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Martin Lumsden
- Jan 6, 2015
- 1 min
Thunderbolt and Lightning
You’d think that with a name like thunderbolt it would make life lightning fast – instead I’m getting more of the ‘very very frightening’...
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Martin Lumsden
- Jan 15, 2013
- 6 min
Q250 – Patience*
I’ve said before in this blog that it’s not always a pleasure to force yourself to listen to the next album on a list, in a predetermined...
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Martin Lumsden
- Dec 11, 2012
- 6 min
Q250 – This Will Be Our Year
There are 16 albums covered in this blog, and brings me right up to date with all that I’ve listened to so far.  As luck would have it,...
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Martin Lumsden
- Dec 10, 2012
- 3 min
Q250 – Stolen*
No. 223 I’VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU – ROBBIE WILLIAMS (1998)  By the time this album was released Robbie Williams was pretty much back at the...
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Martin Lumsden
- Dec 3, 2012
- 4 min
Q250 – Slight Return
As a project, the idea of listening through all the entries on the Q250 ‘Best Albums of Our Lifetime’ should be an easy and pleasurable...
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Martin Lumsden
- Sep 2, 2012
- 2 min
The world in my eyes
Friday night visit to Dukes Bar in central Bristol. Â I arrived for a visit with my friends Simon and Gaynor, and Simon and I pop out to...
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Martin Lumsden
- Jun 22, 2011
- 5 min
Q250 – Miss You
May 3rd! May the bleedin’ 3rd! So all of a sudden there I was with 2 months of extreme business and with all best intentions applied I...
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Martin Lumsden
- May 3, 2011
- 5 min
Q250 – Here it Goes Again
In 1988 I was living in Edinburgh in my own flat (well rented) on Comiston Road in Morningside. I’d left school in 1986, 25 years ago...
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Martin Lumsden
- Apr 15, 2011
- 3 min
Q250 – Life of Surprises
Sometimes you can be aware of a band or singer without really having much of a clue about the bulk of the work that they do. So ask me...
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Martin Lumsden
- Apr 12, 2011
- 4 min
Q250 – Erase and Rewind
Q Magazine Let’s imagine for a moment, that the period covered in the Q250 was not 1986 – 2011, but 5 years earlier; 1981 – 2006. Of...
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Martin Lumsden
- Apr 6, 2011
- 3 min
Q250 – Soldier On
And so, a little later than I might have originally hoped, I’ve completed 10 of the albums from the Q250 – ‘The Best 250 Albums of our...
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Martin Lumsden
- Mar 29, 2011
- 5 min
Q250 – Girls and Boys
Q250 Delving again in to the world of the Q Magazine ‘ 250 Best Albums of our Lifetime’ it was a pleasure, and perhaps a relief, to find...
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Martin Lumsden
- Mar 21, 2011
- 3 min
Q250 – Keep on Moving!
It is pretty clear that unless I still want to be writing this episodic blog content in 5 years time, I’m going to have to get a move...
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Martin Lumsden
- Mar 16, 2011
- 4 min
Let’s get it started
I decided to tackle the Q Magazine ‘250 Best Albums of our Lifetime’ as a way in to a regular blog, with a vague intention that it would...
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Martin Lumsden
- Mar 9, 2011
- 3 min
Bring It On
Q Magazine I’ve had this idea of reviewing – or at least commenting on the music, TV, film and other media stuff that passes through my...
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