Now ten years old and counting, my regular series of Tuesday posts takes in new music and sometimes rather random categories.
It is Holy Week in the Christian calendar (the week prior to Easter), but as well it’s also – unusually – Orthodox Easter on the same Sunday as Catholic Easter, Passover began on Sunday just past, and Eid Al Fitr fell at the turn of March into April. So, this week I’m looking at religion […]
I’m continuing my current policy of using up as many older suggestion threads as possible: I’ve asked for songs on lots of subjects over the years (over 200 suggestion threads, in fact), and still have quite a number to use up.
Eighteen years of /Tuesday Tens. My posts could legally drink if they wanted to. The very first one was on 27-Mar 2007, and the world was a very different place back then. Indeed Tony Blair was still Prime Minister, and it should be added that as I write this, we are on the seventh PM […]
After what has felt like a long, wet and cold winter down here on the coast, Spring has finally begun fighting it’s way in, and as I write this, it’s a sunny and mild morning, and another sure sign Spring is here is that my hayfever has returned with a vengeance.
Tomorrow, my wife and I reach a significant milestone: our twentieth anniversary of being together, and our ninth wedding anniversary. We’ve lived together in Sheffield, London and now Hythe, Kent, we’ve been through ups and downs, we’ve travelled across much of Europe and America, and had a lot of fun along the way.
As is traditional, January felt like it took all year, February felt like a couple of days.
Things are a bit fucking crazy in the world right now, as the repercussions from the political events in the US begin to ripple across the world.
We are edging towards the end of what has felt like much colder winter than the past few years. Not that we see snow on the Kent coast – our winters here are wet and windy, almost constantly. But I grew up further north, on the fringes of the Pennines, where winters hit hard.
Around Valentine’s Day, I’ve occasionally looked at vaguely relevant (or downright inappropriate!) themes for /Tuesday Tens in the eighteen years since the series began, and this year is no different.
What with work being busy, and my trip for the final 242 shows last week, most writing plans for January got tossed out of the window or deferred.
2025 sees /amodelofcontrol.com enter 21 years active, and this coming summer, I will mark thirty years since the first gig that I attended. Life has been busy of late, and a slightly longer Christmas break from writing was much-needed.
The final /Tuesday Ten of 2024 is a subject that turned out to have a lot of legs. Insults.
The last /Tracks of the Month of 2024 brings various new songs and a bit of a catch-up from the past couple of months, to ensure I’ve covered as much as possible before /Countdown begins the end of year roundup in December.
A scream has a great many potential meanings. It could be an exclamation of triumph, of joy, of ecstasy, of pain, of fear, of shock. It is, however, usually loud and is frequently used or described in music.
Everything has changed in recent years. Many of us have moved from where we were (particularly those of us in London), our outlook on life might have changed, friends have got married, others having children, others still making other drastic changes to their lives.
It was back in July that I wrote /Tuesday Ten /562, intended as a pair of posts that were the opposite of each other.
First of the month, /Tracks of the Month time.
I turned forty-six last month, so I’m likely now in the right place for a midlife crisis.
Back on the normal, first Tuesday of the month schedule for /Tracks of the Month.
It’s the impending Bank Holiday Weekend, which means only one thing for us: it’s Infest this weekend in Bradford. /amodelofcontrol.com will be reporting back, of course, with the usual full coverage and photos after the event. If you’re there, come say hi.
