Bagging Area

AW62 was a month ago, a weekend long celebration of the life and music of Andrew Weatherall at The Golden Lion in Todmorden. The line up thi...

Eliza's recent three week trip to Bali coincided with the 2000 film The Beach being shown on TV last weekend (she said they screened it ...

There's some thing about the sound and feel of thirty year old, American alt- rock which is doing it for me at the moment. Apropos of no...

One of the highlights of our recent trip to Marrakech was the evening we spent in the desert- we were driven to the edge of the Sahara and w...

Sunny War is a thirty four year old singer/ songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee who plays folk- punk blues. She learned finger picking guit...

Traffic's song Feelin' Alright? is one I think I first heard as a cover by Paul Weller way back in 1992 when he was kickstarting his...

It's funny how some songs can transport you to a specific time and place. This song, all glorious thirteen minutes and fifty three secon...

Some long form mixes for Sunday, enough to keep you occupied for a few hours if you need some soundtracks for your weekend. First up is Davi...

When packing for Marrakech recently I thought about re- reading The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles' 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky. Bowles m...

Friday in late April. How did that happen? In my head it feels like we're only a few weeks into 2025 and yet next week it's going to...

Record Store/ Shop Day passed me by a bit this year- I didn't see anything in the pre- RSD lists that caught my eye, cash was tight, and...

The Moonlandingz are Lias Soudi, Adrian Flanagan and Dean Honer. All three have a rich history of music in other projects including Decius a...

We went to the desert twice during our trip to Morocco. On each occasion it was a mind blowing and profound experience. The first excursion ...

A day late for an Easter Sunday resurrection but bank holiday Monday feels more appropriate- you might remember that in January 2024 I wrote...

Bagging Area's adventures in Morocco part two. Day two in Marrakech saw us up early for a trip to the Atlas Mountains, the ridge of snow...

Marrakech was amazing, an unforgettable experience and unlike anywhere I've been before. Apologies if Bagging Area becomes a bit of a tr...

No Sunday mix today and no more posts until next weekend either; we're off to Marrakesh, Morocco for a few days, a holiday to celebrate ...

Soundtrack Saturday took a two week detour into TV cop show theme tunes with a pair of 80s classics- the Balearic beauty of Mike Post's ...

Last year I did a series of posts called Bagging Area Book Club and never got around to writing about any of David Keenan's books, sever...

Escape- Ism is Ian Svenonius and Sandy Denton. They have an album called Charge Of The Love Brigade, a title I wish I'd thought of. Ian ...