My wake up song this week is 'Skating' from a Charlie Brown Christmas. Vince Guaraldi provided some of the coolest music ever for a ...

I've begun reading H.G.Wells so I was curious to see a production of 'The Invisible Man' at the Menier Chocolate factory [link]...

Captain Beefheart has sadly passed away. He is considered a great musical revolutionary & critics often cite his most avant-garde work a...

This week's wake up song 'Amor Mio' is performed by the legendary Italian singer Mina & written by the legendary Italian son...

This week's TT Test is taken by American singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim [link] who I enthusiastically blogged about last December [l...

The new TT tee-shirts have arrived, Hurrah !! They have been designed by Sylvie Bardet who also designed this blog and my website and they ...

My wake up song this week is Tami Lynn's 'I'm Gonna Run Away from You'. This Northern Soul classic was recorded in the mid 6...

My friend katerina Athanasopoulou is a very talented animator [link] this is her new short 'Engine Angelic' [watch here] . I'm ...

Spent a nice evening in the Barbican centre [link] last night (this has to be my favourite arts centre !), quickly browsed the 'Future ...

This week's TT Test is taken by Grant Lee Phillips whose musicianship as writer,vocalist and multi-instrumentalist is inspiring. He fir...

Today is one of my favourite London weather days - chilly but gorgeously sunny, everything & everyone radiant & alive ! So logicall...

I caught a screening of the recently restored and reconstructed version of Metropolis this week [link] . It's the first time I've se...

This a video journal I recorded when I was in L.A. It's about two of the vintage instruments that belong to my producer Paul Bryan whic...

Yesterday, I discovered the Museum of Everything [link] . Perhaps, I have been sleeping under a rock because it's near my neighbourhood ...

This week's wake up song is 'Jamais Seule' by French singer-songwriter Loane. It's so jolly & bouncy it's the ...

When you finish making an album, there's the euphoric bit ' Wow, I've just made a record ! ' and in the weeks that follow th...

This week's TT Test is taken by the awesome Jay Bellerose, a drummer who you may have heard playing with Alison Kraus & Robert Plant...

This week's wake up song is from Karen Carpenter's solo record that was recorded in New York in 1979 & produced by Phil Ramone...

Last week I spent a lot of time trying to decide upon the sequence for the new record. It was quite difficult, it's one of those records...

This weeks TT Test is taken by one of my favourite musicians , guitarist Mark Creswell . I first met Mark when I was 18 and ...