As the festival season is upon us, and specifically the Proms are about to start (a lot of meh, a few interesting things this year as far as I'm concerned - I'll get around to that later), here's an historical perspective, as first seen in Classical Music's recent festivals supplement.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Festival Fever 1759
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Commercial Break: Brahms
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Brahms and Liszt: The Russians are Coming (2)
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Brahms and Liszt: The Russians are Coming (1)
Friday, March 06, 2009
Look ma, I'm shameless
Crikey. If you're here, you're almost certainly here via the estimable Mr Campbell. Thanks for stopping by.
Sorry, it's a bit quiet here at the moment. Would it be terribly whoreish to point you in the direction of this, and also this?
Yup, thought so.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tales from the Back Desk: Brahms and Liszt at night
Speaking of things that go bump in the night (sort of)... the long-awaited new Back Desk is now online!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Brahms and Liszt again
New Back Desk online now.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Credit Crunching
Special Recession edition of the Back Desk up now.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Brahms and Liszt
New (slightly late) Tale from the Back Desk up now.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
The soloist

New Tale from the Back Desk online here.
Monday, September 22, 2008
The writing's on the wall
New Tale from the Back Desk online now.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Something fishy (2)

This week's Tale from the Back Desk is online.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
A hairy situation
Another Tale from the Back Desk is now available for your delectation.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
View from the back
The latest Tale from the Back Desk is online.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tales From the Back Desk
The latest episode is online.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Tales From the Back Desk
Just post-holiday's always a good time to summon up some vague enthusiasm for doing something new, so with that in mind I've started a new project: Tales from the Back Desk. It's a regular (weekly, if I can summon the time and energy) comic about music and musicians, that grows out of the three strips I drew for Classical Music earlier this year. I was hoping they might be enthused enough about those to have such a series in the magazine, but hey, their loss is the internet's gain.

