Cult of Ffynche

An R.E.M best of, obvs. I first heard of R.E.M in secondary school (see previous playlist) where I had a couple of friends who were...

From the late 50’s, through the 60’s and onwards, electric organs (and keyboards) gave talented youngsters, who learned piano at an early...

So its not always about music on its own, sometimes it can be accompanied by things like moving images. I remember when MTV played music...

Acoustic beauties The Clap A simply sensational solo guitar piece from Steve Howe. The Yes Album (1971) was my go to LP for many moons...

So after a mild obsession with Extreme came Incubus, from funk metal to nu-funk metal if you will. Stanley Franc Redefine Incubus -...

Well, I’m not gonna go into a long diatribe about politics. I’m not qualified. There are people within the Cult’s inner circle with far...

I was first properly exposed to African music in 1975 after an archeological field trip to the Kenyan Rift Valley was cut short and...

Funky, up beat Hip Hop works for me, the sampled Boom Bap drums, interesting lead / hook samples - clever word play - fast rhymes, this...

Uncle John’s Band - Grateful Dead Acoustic studio version from Workingman’s Dead. A song that I just love to bits. This is the favourite...

New York….please insert here your own cliches about New York… Music. That’s all it means to me. Its a sound. There have been many great...

A few songs that just show what good ol' electric guitars can do and when two get together - synergy happens. Here are some great...

So following on from another guitar type playlist, I thought the theme could do with some further exploration - we’re not out of ideas,...

So I thought I would kick off my playlists linked to my earlier memories of songs that I played a lot when I was first getting into music...

I started listening to Sublime when I was around 17 - I have the distinct memory of a friend driving me in his beat-up Nissan Micra (I...

The fact that all these songs are from a different era is telling. Who cares about guitar solos anymore? Not me. In fact I’ve always...

Scientists would have it that music stimulates pathways in the brain that control our emotions- and that the extent to which music moves...

Hosts, Rod and Marian Stokes invited amateur musicians to join in with Tuesday night musical sessions in the public bar and also put on...

Inclusivity, not just for the in crowd. Here are a small selection of songs that should be well known within the Zimmerman Institute's...

The greatest and most influential single songwriter of his generation, but most of all with Bob it’s the voice - as Joan Baez once said...

The Zimmermann Institute's first dip into the inexhaustible recorded treasury of Bob Dylan the performing artist. IT'S ALRIGHT MA (I’M...