by Dave Porter | 13th May 2017
This week, actually on Thursday 11th May 2017, Helen and I went to the Sage Music Centre in Gateshead to see Tom Chaplin in concert. Tom, if you don’t know, was the lead singer of the UK band Keane, who had hits with songs like ‘This Is The Last...
by Dave Porter | 27th December 2015
Back in the early 1960’s, music underwent a transformation. We had already moved away from the days of big bands and crooners, through skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll, to the start of something that is still with us now, and always will be, popular music....
by Dave Porter | 15th April 2013
So, the official chart is out and the song that people have been buying in the aftermath of the death of Margaret Thatcher, has failed to make it to number one. As I said in my last post on this subject, it now takes very little to get into the single chart in the UK....
by Dave Porter | 13th April 2013
In the 1960’s there was only one way to buy music, you had to go to a ‘record shop’ and hand over your money. A ‘single’ in those days cost six shillings and eight pence, you could therefore buy three for a pound. I remember once as a boy...
by Dave Porter | 22nd April 2012
For someone doing their A levels at the moment and planning to go to University to study music production, producing a You Tube video in one day is quite impressive. Nick put the band together, played some of the instruments himself, recorded it all, audio on a...
