by Graeme Cumming | Jan 30, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years |
I wrote recently about going to watch Bohemian Rhapsody. The film begins and ends at Live Aid, and reproduces in full the set played there by Queen. Watching those fifteen or twenty minutes of film left me feeling very emotional. In part, it was watching this...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 27, 2019 | Blogging |
Well, it seems the Annual Bloggers Bash Awards are back again. I am involved in organising the Annual Bash, which is due to take place in London on 15th June this year. From a personal point of view, I have to say that the Awards don’t particularly excite me...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 17, 2019 | Gogglebox, Nostalgia, Television |
A key part of 1960s TV shows was the pre-title sequence. There were some exceptions, but during that period there was a particular style designed to draw the viewer in. It would set the tone, but also compel you to find out what was going to happen next. For me, one...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 6, 2019 | Nostalgia, The Gigging Years |
When I heard about the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, I dismissed it. I love the cinema but, generally speaking, don’t like biopics, and I’m not keen on recreations of live performances. I’ve seen plenty of the real thing, and you can’t match those. Part of me also worried...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 31, 2018 | Blogging |
It seems a post I issued a few hours ago was incorrect, so if you’ve read that, ignore it. If you haven’t, just ignore this paragraph, because the rest is correct (or so I’m told!). As the clock ticks on, we get ever closer to seeing in 2019. In...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 22, 2018 | Life Lessons, Speaking, Uncategorised, Writing |
Eleven years ago, I was dreading Christmas. I’d split up with my partner the previous spring and she had decided to go to her mum’s for a few days, taking our children with her. It would have been wrong for me to argue. After all, it had been my decision to break the...
