Record Store Day, and the fetishisation of vinyl

Husband's guitar, my Gene Vincent LP

It’s Record Store Day today. “What’s Record Store Day” asked Husband when I mentioned it.

My first answer was “Where have you been for the last ten years?” My second answer was: “It used to be about people who liked music but now it’s about people who like money.”

The Reunion: Women of Punk

I don’t listen to Radio 4 that often because I’m not that posh, but I was quite excited to find out about a programme called Women of Punk last week. It was part of a series called The Reunion which “reunites a group of people intimately involved in a moment of modern history”.

Social media, real life and giving up Facebook for Lent

It’s nearly Easter and soon I will be able to go back on Facebook. I’m not sure if I’ll bother.