It only took fourteen years...
I began this blog on 6th January 2011. In that year I wrote 432 album reviews (maybe a live gig or two). This year I have made only 23 posts – most being my themed album cover ones – with only 7 album reviews.
In this genuinely potted history, I do want to balance that ‘decline’ detail in reviews with the announcement that my site has to date had one million page views! That’s 1,016,779 to be precise: a figure I only confirmed yesterday (having last checked and posted when it was just over 700,000).
I have always loved and listened to loads of music, and do so now as much as back in 2011. But back then, I wanted a place to write (love of writing and a need to write) and thus set up the music blog. I felt I had a lot to say about past and contemporary music.
Having
retired from teaching in 2010, I had more time to write, and did so intensely
on Some Diurnal Aural Awe (that 'daily' reference the impulse and
design). Long story short, my writing focus has shifted from music reviews to
poetry, but domestic commitments have changed over that period to significantly
lessen the time I have for album reviews. I listen to the music when writing
other things: as I wrote this, it was St. Vincent - Todos Nacen Gritando.
