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Nov 10 2021

Hello Again, Live Music: Elvis Costello & The Imposters @ Belk Theater CLT 10/20/21

Elvis and Charlie in CLT 10.20.21 

photo by Adrienne Meddock

 

The last time I saw live music in person was March 7, 2020. The promise of a masked and vaxxed audience in a well-ventilated venue lured me back to see …

Nov 2 2021

Review: Netflix's Inventing Davis Geffen

  David Geffen would have to be invented if he didn't already exist. First aired on PBS (American Masters), then on Netflix, this  view of Geffen, agent, record label owner, and movie producer, is mostly from his own words, …

Sep 12 2021

SHQ July Swelter: Wherein we all get a case of the Nixons

Friday July 2: “Insertion Issues”  Auspicious beginning! The Telecaster is out and ‘Give it to The Soft Boys’ starts us off, with some random video looping courtesy StageIt that lends an unintentional arty, cool effect. It’s a bit of artistic …

Sep 2 2021

The Hold Steady's New LP: Open Door Policy

It’s no secret that Adrienne and I were geeks. We met at a High School Model United Nations conference and I believe life has never been the same for either of us. Both history wonks, we knew that The Open …

Aug 7 2021

Questlove's Summer of Soul Provides Context and Cool

Questlove's directorial debut is a dazzling contemporary look at a summer series of concerts filmed in Harlem in 1969. The new documentary is based on over 40 hours of high quality video tape made by Hal Tulchin (read his…

Jul 31 2021

MUSIC IS OUR FRIEND: King Crimson at ATL's Fox Theater

This was it for me. My first rock show since the pandemic began. First since my transplant surgery and stroke. The tour: Music is Our Friend.  

And the band was the legendary King Crimson, the band that essentially invented ‘prog-rock,’…

Jul 26 2021

What Is It About Panel Shows and the Brits?

R: Feminist icon Germaine Greer, Alan Davies (QI), Richard Osman (Pointless), some bloke named Jermaine. F: David Mitchell, Rob Brydon, Lee Mack on an episode of Would I Lie to You.

Born  in America, but a uniquely British phenomenon,…

Jul 16 2021

June SHQ: Intercontinental Grooving

So June finds us well into the parallel arrangement with our Sweet Home being based not only in London (The Scottish Folds, Robyn, and sound reinforcement by Andy Washington) but in Oz, with Our Emma preparing for her Australian tour …

Jun 28 2021

May Flies: Sweet Home Quarantine with Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift

 

5-5-21 RH BY Request Robyn Hitchcock is sweaty with the new May heat. Declaring he’s in a “clammy paradise,”  because he took a couple of “Nixon pills”  and he's come up with some new compound from Tubby and Ringo rubbing …

Jun 15 2021

Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios

To acknowledge Judy Garland’s 99th birthday, Rufus Wainwright put together a spectacular streaming concert experience. Since 2006, when Rufus released his own version of “Judy Live at Carnegie Hall,” he has performed the double album in its entirety at a …

Jun 8 2021

April Sweet Home Quarantine with Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift

Who made that request?  4/7/21  Welcome welcome to April!  Tonight I scoot in a wee bit late; RH enters my screen adorned in a top hat and playing’ Erasing Your Life’ from the Tromso, Kaptein record, followed by what Robyn …

May 20 2021

Madness: The Get Up! Global Live Stream

 

Charlie Higson and Suggs at the London Palladium  The weekend of March 14, Madness, the stalwarts of the nutty, nutty, second-wave ska sound, hosted a bold streaming event. The ticket price ($24 in the US) was healthy and a real …
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