If you judge a man by the company he keeps, Dave Mason deserves to be a household name. He was someone who I was vaguely aware of, but no more than that until I was researching Dead Man Singing. I was aware of his in-out tenure with Traffic in the late 60s, an early exemplar of the ‘musical di...

Maria McKee (1989), the eponymous solo debut of the former Lone Justice lead singer, is an album that Dave discovers during the course of Dead Man Singing, and it’s one that found me while I was a student at around the same time.

Opening track I’ve Forgotten What it Was in You (That Put ...

Someone recently said to me that the Beatles were overrated. Now, I have no problem with people saying they don’t like the Beatles – musical taste is subjective, and we like what we like – but that’s very different to saying they weren’t good, or that they are overrated...

U is for unbalanced games

If you’ve never been involved in kids’ football, some of the scorelines in Foul and Fair might have caused some raised eyebrows. In my time coaching, I saw my team win by margins or nine or ten, as well as losing by a similar distance. I never personally encount...