Author Archives: Lee Barnes

One Christmas while doing the nights at work I spent one of my days off downloading a few albums. I was using a hire van to deliver a few parcels at the end of the shift that had this state of the art tech that you could hook your 7th Gen Nano to by Bluetooth.Continue reading “#bullyshits”

Not as regular as I’d like, but who needs to keep to schedules? Nerds and squares, that’s who – and I think it’s pretty obvious that ain’t me, son. 🤓

I’m not gonna lie and pretend I’m the biggest Oasis fan in the world. I grew up through the 90s they were around and better than a lot of what I was exposed to, but I can’t say I ever fell deeply in love. There were no posters on the wall. I’ve seen them live,Continue reading “#oasishits”

Martha are an indie/punkish type band from up t’north, possibly Durham. Even though it’s very much of the standard guitar-bass-drums-harmonies formula there’s a variety of influences you can hear come out in a number of songs. And I like a band that embraces that there was music before them. I first came across them thanksContinue reading “#marthashits”

Oh, hello again! Long time no see, October 2021 was the last one of these and as usual I got bored and my attention/focus shifted. But I’m back, whether you like it or not. So sit back and enjoy half hour or so of the music that’s been entering my ears recently.

It’s late, I get it. These are the #hits from October.

The Maccabees, English indie band. This their second album hits all of my spots. Sure they used to get played back in the day but loosely related to my return to cricket this summer has seen me revisit and rethink just how much of a great album, from head to toe, this is.