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Martin Lumsden
Nov 29, 20192 min read
New Podcast Series!
In this debut episode of the BIG Sound Machine podcast, I speak to singer-songwriter Alex Bayly about his debut album release "Ley Lines"
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Martin Lumsden
Jan 15, 20136 min read
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 10, 20123 min read
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, 20124 min read
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
Jun 22, 20115 min read
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, 20115 min read
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, 20113 min read
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, 20114 min read
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 5, 20113 min read
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, 20115 min read
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, 20113 min read
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, 20114 min read
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, 20113 min read
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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