December 2023

Three Poems and 20 songs. Including a manifesto for compulsory rock’n’roll retirement Here Come the Old Drugs: A Prescription for 2024 Listen to the whole thing, with all the music and me reading the verse, on Mixcloud here: https://www.mixcloud.com/tom-morton2/a-prescription-for-2024-three-poems-and-20-songs/ Bruce Springsteen — State Trooper Rolling Stones — Tumbling Dice Disaster, tragedy, folly, distress Joy, disappointment,…

It’ll be lonely this Christmas…or will it? An extended soundtrack and story for a snowbound Yule… Once upon a time… Phoebe Bridgers — If We Make It through December Lucy Dacus — Last Christmas Pretenders — Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas John Mellencamp — I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus Dave Edmunds and Plum…

And long, long ago – how on earth did we even find out what music we were supposed to like? As usual, you can read this and dig out the tunes mentioned yourself (they’re on a Spotify Playlist you can find at the end, with the exception of Pete Atkin’s National Steel – it’s on…

Are you ready to sell your soul? And your hot water bottles? Is vinyl really ‘a zombie format’? As Christmas looms, it’s music and mammon time The following tracks illustrate what is a chunky piece of text (3000+ words). You can listen to me reading the essay, with the tracks in full, on Mixcloud here:…