Caravan of Lawyers

In mid March I wrote a POSTING about Van Morrison’s new album Keep It Simple and included a couple of tracks as tasters. Van’s lawyers were not impressed by this and asked me to remove the tracks which I did. Yesterday a reader, Matt left a comment on the post with link to a youtube [...]

Van Morrison- Keep It Simple - Released Today

I got my sweaty palms on the new Van album today. Just what you’d expect from him i.e. the heroic struggle, the hurt, the disappointment with life, self obsession and gnawing self doubt. I love it. I notice that the drummer on the album is Liam Bradley who I saw in action with The Blue [...]

Van Morrison - Keep It Simple

 

Van releases his first album of completely new material in three years on Saint Patricks Day (March 17th) I must admit that some of Van’s output of recent times  has been patchy (although his country inspired “Pay the Devil” was good) but listening to Johnnie Walker on Radio 2 on the way home from Edinburgh last night he [...]

Van Morrison

I probably have more Van Morrison records in my collection than those by any other artist. I think as a songwriter, singer and multi -instrumentalist he has few equals. I have seen him live on maybe about ten ocassions and these have ranged from the stunningly brilliant to the frankly mediocre. Unfortunately the latter outnumber the former and I doubt [...]