Now ten years old and counting, my regular series of Tuesday posts takes in new music and sometimes rather random categories.
I go to a lot of gigs. I started going to gigs in 1995, and my records (incomplete before 2003) tell me that I’ve been to over 850 gigs/festivals, and have recorded that I’ve seen approximately 2,500 sets. Bearing in mind I saw quite a bit at Uni in London, I suspect the number is […]
Last week my wife Daisy and I celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary, and twenty-one years together (we got married on our eleventh anniversary), and to mark the occasion we went on an adventure – the longest holiday since our honeymoon. The trip was something we’d wanted to do for ages: going by train across Europe. […]
It is the 98th Academy Awards this coming weekend, and so it’s time to dust off another suggestion thread that I’ve had ready to use for a while (the original thread was in October 2020), and look at songs about actors (and the odd director). Become a member! /amodelofcontrol.com now has a Patreon page, at […]
A baker’s dozen of new tracks this month. Release announcements for 2026 are now in full swing, which means it can be tough to keep up…
Last week was filth, this week goes a different way: but still with a fair bit of swearing and occasional filth, as it happens.
Sometimes, I give myself more work to do than is strictly necessary when writing these posts, and this week is no exception. In the run-up to Valentine’s Day, I asked my friends for suggestions for “filthy” songs, and nearly got buried in an avalanche of over 300 suggestions. But that many suggestions needed more than […]
Sometimes, I give myself more work to do than is strictly necessary when writing these posts, and this week is no exception. In the run-up to Valentine’s Day, I asked my friends for suggestions for “filthy” songs, and nearly got buried in an avalanche of over 300 suggestions. But that many suggestions needed more than […]
Twenty-five years ago this week, I began working in what became my career. At the time still recovering from a broken ankle (and I was certainly still on crutches at this point), I started what I thought was going to be a temporary role with BT Cellnet on the edge of Leeds (for those who […]
Finally, the eternal month of January is over, and now we’re into February, it’s time for the best tracks of the first month of the year.
Perhaps ironically, given the subject, this post has taken three or four attempts to complete. I’ve looked at the suggestions before without success since the suggestion thread was posted back in 2020, finding little inspiration to actually complete the post.
The first couple of weeks of January are usually a drag. There’s little going on, most people are saving their money for more interesting times later in the year, and the weather, at least in the northern hemisphere, is usually pretty grim.
David Bowie died ten years ago this week (on 10-Jan 2016). He’s been one of those artists whom I’ve been listening to his music probably as long as I was able to appreciate music. My dad, naturally, was/is a fan, and it was probably Let’s Dance I heard first (I was nearly five when that […]
2026 is an important year for me: it marks thirty years since I began writing about music (the actual anniversary comes at the end of September). But it is also going to be the year where I start to wind down my writing, and this website.
Yes, it’s the last days of November, yes, it’s one month until Christmas today, and yes, this is the last /Tuesday Ten of 2025.
By a quirk of fate, I wrote a /Tuesday Ten on positivity eleven years ago today, and a late change of plan over the weekend as to what subject I was going to write about meant that I settled on pessimism, without realising the significance of it.
Regret is a funny human condition, isn’t it? The concept that you can obsess over past mistakes, when you can do little or nothing other than acknowledge what happened, apologise and move on.
The last /Tracks of the Month of the year has come around quickly – from the beginning of December, of course, I’ll be posting /Countdown /2025 over four weeks as I look at the best music of the year.
Denial can take many forms. It can be public denials, it can be denials to friends and lovers, it can be denial to yourself.
After last week’s filth and dirt, let us wipe the slate and this week, clean things up.
In the latest instalment of “why didn’t I consider this subject before?”, this week and next cover twin subjects that I’m genuinely surprised that it took this long to think about.
