For over 40 years I have been immersed in a search for music that thrills me. I have listened to 1000s of vinyl albums and 1000s of CDs and 1000s of streamed and digitised songs.
I cannot ever see an end to my quest of finding the next perfect song. My list of 999songs could be much much longer.
The words I have written about music make no attempt to be objective. I only write about music that excites me, as is the case with film and literature, which have been my other abiding obsessions through the course of a life. Maybe there will be only a few words, maybe many and maybe they will take you somewhere very different to where you might have expected.
On this page you will find a series of entries on my thoughts on music, films and literature that have excited me.
9th March 2026
An Ape A Dog and A Serpent
An Ape A Dog and A Serpent is a short funny melancholy profound novel about the film business from its early days to the 1940s and the passing of time for human beings.
Gerald Kersh is one of my favourite writers and this book, published in 1945 is of the excellent standard of his best writing. I read it in one sitting in a couple of hours.
My copy is a first edition bought from the recently discovered Michaels bookshop in Ramsgate which has fast become one of my very favourite second hand bookshops in England, with a huge fiction section.
16th March 2026
Ziggy(Bowie knows..) by Mama Loo
My favourite piece of recorded music remains the title track from the album ‘Lovely’ by Spot, so the first piece of music I will mention in these writings is a new recording by Edwin de Herder, who played the amazing guitar solo on ‘Lovely’. The new track by Mama Loo is ‘Ziggy(Bowie knows..)’
