Hello everyone, young and old! I’m celebrating my 50th birthday this year so I deserve this invitation, the wrinkles are starting to arrive … I’ve lived in Rennes (France) for 25 years. The first 25 years I was in Caen in Normandy, where I was born. My parents came from rather ‘simple’ families. My grandfathers […]
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NEVER Lend your Records
I don’t know how many records I’ve ‘lost’, vinyls or CDs, and even cassettes, by lending them to my ‘friends’, but I’ve lost a lot. If you also lent people your records, you’ll see what I’m talking about, right? Albums that I really cared about, which were sometimes almost impossible to find again! So one […]
Interview with Al Tiff
My name’s Al. I was born in a small seaside village in Suffolk UK in 1963. I am lead singer and bass player in the Punk Oi band L.O.A.D I am also a hard working family man, proud dad to three sons, and grandad to two little terrors, and I love spending time with them. […]
Interview with Hugh
I am from Armagh, Northern Ireland but raised Dublin, the Republic’s capital, as well as a few childhood years in Chicago. I just turned 50 on my daughter’s 4th Birthday – yes good timing. I’ve lived in Moscow for almost 13 years and love to explore, travel, teach and learn. I also like beer and […]
A Pain in the…Ear
Bzzzzz… Bzzzzz… Bzzzzz… – Hey! Do you hear the bees? – Huh? – The bees! Can you hear them? – What bees? There are no bees here! – Well, what’s this buzzing in my head? Like you, I’ve been to over a thousand concerts. And I still continue to go to them. I’ve seen good […]
A History of Portable Music
Question: What is a pen used for? Answers: To write, to draw, to use as a blow pipe for sending balls of wet tissue to your classmates’ heads, to show that we’re very rich if the pen is a Mont-Blanc … What else? To rewind a cassette of course !!! And yes, do you remember, […]
Flirting in the Old Days
First contact – Hi, do you have a spare cigarette, please? – Here. – Thank you. Hey, guys, those few words bring back memories? When you spotted a pretty young punkette at a concert and asked her for a cigarette pretending not to have one, while your pack was stashed in the bottom of […]
Cops and Old Cars
Like most of the readers of this article, I’m over 50, and I love rock ‘n’ roll and the 50s. I’m therefore a bit nostalgic for an era that I didn’t know, but that I tried to live, in spite of everything. How did I go about trying to get there? Well, first of all, […]