Photo Journal What a bank holiday... We've been looking forward to this weekend for about 6 months. When Blink-182 announced they were headlining Leeds Festival, there was no way I was going to miss it, I'd yet to see them live despite them being my favourite band and since our eldest has
Music Air, 26th June 2024 Towards the back-end of last week, I was somewhat sideswiped by Woody's death on Thursday so I figured I'd wait a full week to put together the following post. The night before Woody passed, we ("we" being myself, Lu, my brother, Jamie, and friend,
Music Trail songs Just a quick Friday morning post to share a couple of albums I've been listening to this week. I discovered Cory Wong fairly recently on YouTube with some of his live music and a few days ago I started going back through his discography on Spotify and these
Music Less Than Jake & Bowling For Soup, Leeds 2024 It's been a while since we'd been to a gig so we were looking forward to a night out in Leeds. I'm a big fan of Less Than Jake and it's been 10 years (almost to the day) since we last saw
Music Music to work to It's Friday afternoon, I'm doing a very monotonous task at work (lots of re-formatting content, lots of copying and pasting) and I'm listening to one of my "go-to" playlists on Spotify, one of their curated playlists: Cinematic Chillout. I've been
Music Foo Fighters: Preparing Music for Concerts I've been a fan of Foo Fighters for a long time. I was a fan of Dave Grohl even before Foo Fighters were a band. So when the news hit of Taylor Hawkins' passing last year, there was a sense that maybe the band wouldn't
Music John Williams, composer of our childhoods The other day, I came across an article on Classic FM's website showing a short video of John Williams playing a piano but included in the article was a short 15 minute interview and I just felt like a doing a short John Williams appreciation post. Here are
Music Reclaiming my Likes playlist It was a number of years ago now and I can't quite recall the exact circumstances but there was a period of time when Spotify limited the number of artists/albums I could save to my Library. Maybe I was on a free account at the time? I
Music Gary Clark Jr, Live North America 2016 I don't intend on making this a regular thing, posting about music I've been listening to but this is one of those albums that just hits me on a visceral level. I'm not entirely sure I can pin-point why but here are a few
Music Re-discovering Nirvana Yesterday, I was looking through Spotify for something to listen to and decided to stop on Nirvana. As I posted to Twitter [https://twitter.com/nocturnalmonkey/status/1282761099838992386], I was excited to discover Nirvana's Live and Loud set is now available as an album. When I was a
Music Spotify Roulette For the longest time I avoided Spotify like the plague. Times change as do opinions and I eventually warmed to the idea of being able to access most music at any time. I've noticed that from time-to-time, I continue to fall into the habit of listening to the
Photography Leeds Guitar Night 2011 This weekend, we went to see Giuliano Modarelli, Erik Mongrain and Jon Gomm play at The Wardrobe in Leeds. We managed to get a spot right next to the stage so I was able to get some decent shots of all three performers. If you ever get a chance to
Music Alexisonfire, Leeds Met Last Saturday, Lu and I descended upon the city of Leeds to enjoy an evening of drinking with some loud, heavy music in the form of Alexisonfire mixed in for good measure. I'm not really any good at reviewing music, so this will be an entirely subjective string
Music Fates by Erik Mongrain I came across this guy last year when a friend sent me a link to a video on YouTube displying an unusual technique to play the guitar called 'Lap Tapping'. This technique has been around a long time, but I'd never seen this before. I was
