How many people really have an understanding of where their favourite genre of music came from? Do you sit lying awake at night, disturbed by the fact you don't know where the term rock'n'roll came…
Weird Instruments Part Two: Sonic Aqua-Phone
In part one we talked about the incredible electronic machine that is the theremin. In this part we take a look at another instrument that begins to blur boundaries and move on into the weirder…
The Madrigal
In Renaissance and Baroque eras, there wasn't a whole lot to do. There were of course, no tvs. Not a high prevalance of sporting events, nor was there much else to do unless you were…
1979: My Birth Year In Music
1979: My Birth Year In Music My childhood memories of music mainly revolve around the 1980’s and 1990’s, and posters of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, and in my teens, numerous boyband’s such as Take That,…