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Tag Archives: Pink Floyd
London and an Oral Saga
Image: Colin Galbraith Oral Hell I’ve been unable to write for around a week now. Things were good up to last Sunday night when I returned from London, then I visited the dental hospital in Edinburgh to have two wisdom … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Photography, Poetry, Travel, UK, Writing
Tagged Buckingham Palace, Camden Market, Camden Town, chapbook, David Gilmour, dental, dental hospital, Docklands, Dublin Castle, Embankment, extraction, FA Cup Final, London, London Eye, Nick Mason, O2, O2 Arena, oral surgery, Photography, Pink Floyd, poems, Poetry, Roger Waters. The Wall, sightseeing, St. Paul's Cathedral, teeth, Tower Hill, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, Whitehall, wisdom tooth, Writing
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London Bound
Well, that’s me off to London for a few days where I’ll be writing, sightseeing, and of course, taking in the Roger Waters gig at the O2. While I’m gone, here’s something for you to enjoy. See you all on the … Continue reading
Gigs Galore
Image: Place Connect I had a fantastic start to yesterday with another couple of gigs lined up to my expanding superlist: The Charlatans in October in Edinburgh and then Roger Waters performing The Wall at the O2 in London next … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Australian Pink Floyd, concerts, e-zine, Fiction, GDR's, gigs, lit-mag, London, magazine, Music, O2, Pink Floyd, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Roger Waters, The Charlatans, The Wall, Writing
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Echoes
Image: Pink Sherbet Photography I dug out some of my old Pink Floyd albums and brushed them down last night. It had been a while. I tend to go through waves of listening to a certain genre—3 months on ska, … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Fiction, Music, Politics, Writing
Tagged 1969, Alan Bissett, America, Baccara Burning, Cape Canaveral, Dave Gilmour, Echoes, Fiction, glasses, moon landing, Moonhead, Music, NASA, novella, Obama, Pink Floyd, space exploration, spectacles, The Guardian, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Wee Brown Doggy
Image: 42 (www.blipfoto.com/42) Man am I tired! It’s not like I’ve been overdoing the hours at the day job again or not giving myself time to unwind before getting down to work on my manuscripts in the evening, but for … Continue reading →