The Hearth of Mopsus

Lately, Death stalks the halls of Euterpe: Ozzy Osbourne, Cleo Laine, Connie Francis, and now Tom Lehrer. I was introduced to the oeuvre of ...

Continuing the Rowan Williams theme, Dr Abacus does me a great service in pointing me to an article from The Times I would have to pay to c...

It is the time of Christmas concerts at the church - schools, choirs, councils, all doing roughly the same thing and getting lots of people ...

It’s only at the very end of his second book – his first, Cured (2016), described how The Cure came into being, what he did in the band, and...

All the profiles of Sinéad O’Connor after her death drew attention to a song I thought among the least interesting in her output: ‘Nothing C...

The first reaction to PJ Harvey’s latest studio album, seven years in the waiting for those of us who were (notwithstanding her soundtrack p...

It was, of course, a great privilege to be able to host Paula’s Civic Service as Mayor of the Borough, but I’m glad it’s behind us. We were ...

This Autumn PJ Harvey tours her soon-to-be-released album I Inside the Old Year Dying , which lifts off from the poems of Orlam . There are ...

It is not, I think, an easy matter to write well about popular music. It is often very, very hard to account for the appeal of a particular ...

Given the excitement of the Spring Fair that I knew was going to occupy so much of Saturday, responding to The Anchoress's email on Frid...

My shoes were, I think, the only brogues in the tiny, tiny downstairs performance area at the Hope & Anchor in Islington on Monday night...

By far the most contentious item at this week's PCC meeting was the potential acquisition of a baby-grand piano which is being offered t...

Yesterday evening our 'augmented' choir (all the singers we can muster from ourselves, plus the odd soul dragged in from other churc...

A nicer anniversary falling today (as well as being Lady Arlen and Madame Morbidfrog's birthdays) is that PJ Harvey's To Bring You M...

Weston House is the other care home in the parish, as well as Widelake at its other end. In fact it isn't  quite in the parish, but just...

Oh dear, I should have posted about my trip to London on Friday 28th to attend this event: a combined lecture-cum-recital hosted by Dr Emma ...

To most people, February 14th was Valentine's Day, or St  Valentine's if you are more religiously aware. For Fr Thesis and other goo...

It only takes a moment to volunteer for something as a generous gesture and then with it comes a tidal surge of worry. I can't remember ...

A topsy-turvy New Year for me as I am off on New Year's Eve and at work on New Year's Day: I had a funeral yesterday on what would n...

Like many other things, ghost stories are a Christmas tradition. When Radio 4's podcast The Battersea Poltergeist  came out at the start...