As the Madam and I do the final whizz around cleaning in preparation for receiving visitors, and I turn my attention to preparing the buffet - I think some musical highlights from 2023 are in order, to get the juices flowing for a party!
And the "Song of the Year":
However, as my 60th year passes into the ether, let's have another outing for my song from my birthday post - this:
Happy New Year, dear reader!
It would appear that Ms Scarlet may be right - it certainly feels like that elusive "Indian Summer" is upon us. Yay!
Time, methinks, for a little round-up of the "newer" music that has caught my ear of late...
Let's open with the very welcome return of one of my favourite 80s synthpop bands, shall we? It's sublime:
Here's darling Jake and his latest (and very catchy) choon:
If "Dafydd" from Little Britain got a load of naff tattoos and started hanging around with a woman who wouldn't look out of place in one of the windows in the Red Light District of Amsterdam...
This is hilarious! Described by none other than Whigfield as "Like Borat, but with music", this piss-take of all things "90s Eurodance" is a work of genius:
Cute gay pop-muppet Troye Sivan is back with an earworm...
Now, here's a formidable team-up of talent! Two "house fave" ladies for the price of one...
With a complete change of tempo altogether, here's (a very short clip, unfortunately, of) something I heard recently on Radio 3 from the late, great Medievalist Belinda Sykes and her band :
But, finally, there is only one song for which the anticipation has been building - Our Princess Kylie's new one! It's brilliant:
As ever, dear reader, let me know your thoughts!