I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Tag: music

I love music. Making music, listening, talking about it and anything else too.

Neville Staples at Under The Bridge

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I wasn’t sure what to expect with this gig, but it was actually immensely good fun. I knew a lot more of the songs than I thought I would do and the atmosphere was fantastic, as was the venue.

Vermeer and Music

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A friend recommended this to me so as I was in London a couple of weeks ago I decided to make the effort to go and see it, especially as it was due to finish in a couple of days (it is finished now by the way).

Well, I’m glad that I did make the effort. It was very good indeed and was in fact quite thought provoking, especially in the area of how music had a very specific social and cultural dimension to it. It made me think about how we use music socially (which of course in itself means something different) and culturally now, which is quite an interesting topic to ponder on.

I’m not sure I have any answers or even conclusions, but the Vermeer and Music was worth seeing.

Edinburgh Festival: The Bridge by Benjamin Scheuer

Posted by on in Edinburgh Fringe, Festivals, Music

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To say that this was a moving performance would be a huge understatement. It was incredibly emotional and Benjamin poured his heart and soul into it. I love the songs and the craftsmanship that they showed. In fact, so much so that I bought the album on vinyl. It’s well worth it.

His material is also available for free on SoundCloud too.

Annual trip to the environmental fair

Posted by on in Events, Festivals

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I go to this every year, or at least I do my best to, and it never fails to please on so many levels. Firstly there’s the music, which is probably my main reason for going. There’s three stages, a main stage, a cafe stage and a performing arts marquee. The main stage is ok, I did see one thing that I liked on it this year, which was a band using repurposed tech like guitar hero controllers to make some fairly enjoyable lofi music.

The music cafe had mainly a mix of folk and blue which was really nice, and great to see a hurdy-gurdy on stage in one of the bands. In fact there were quite a lot of acts on here that I enjoyed listening to. Nothing that I’d probably go out of my way to seek out, but very pleasant listening nonetheless.

Lastly there was the performing arts stage. There were a few things on this that I really liked and a couple that I intend to seek out when I have some time.

So, overall in terms of music it was a really useful, enjoyable, and left me with one or two things to follow up on. But that wasn’t the end of the day.

But I’ll save that for another post.