Pepe Deluxe – Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1 – Shaun’s Review

Yes, I LOVED this album! Pepe Deluxé is a Finnish electronic music oriented band, formed in 1996 by DJ Slow (Vellu Maurola) JA-Jazz (Tomi Castrén, formerly Paajanen) and James Spectrum (Jari Salo) in Helsinki, Finland. How to describe this album? Well, you can tell there’s a lot of love and thought behind it, something like […]

Terrible Spells

Hallo dear reader! Or should I say ‘Hello’? Language is a hard master. Just when you think you’ve finally got a handle on it, you realise you’re almost a beginner. The word hello, probably one of the top 10 in the English Language, has become my latest bugbear. For some reason, don’t ask me why, […]

Cover reveal for Servant of the Lesser Good

Today, we reveal the cover for the upcoming release on Dec 2nd of Servant of the Lesser Good. The eBook is available for pre-order on Amazon HERE. The paperback and hardback will release at the same time — there is no pre-order available for those, so you’ll have to wait, but the print proofs look […]

Sword of Damocles

What with Covid, life has been relatively free of world-shaking events. However, I mentioned I was hoping to make it to a music festival over the summer, and I’m happy to report I succeeded—Latitude festival (Suffolk, here in the UK). It was disconcerting at first, to be crammed in with 40,000 people again, but it […]

Am I addicted to Outlander?

Spring has sprung and Covid is (still) on the wane in the UK, but not sure if we’ll get to any music festivals this summer, which is the thing I miss the most. I have everything crossed and bought some tickets for Latitude just in case, but we’ll see. We are spending a lot of […]