To Fight the Unbeatable Foe

Honda have just started airing one of my favourite adverts of all time again.  The Impossible Dream, is a 2 minute panoramic journey through Honda’s motoring history, to the backing song of The Impossible Dream by Andy Williams.

You can also check out the making of this video here.

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There Before the Grace of You Go I

It’s very unusual for a cover to outstrip an original works.  People usually fall in love with an original, then consider the cover or re-work to be a black mark on what they love.  It’s even more rare that someone should cover Simon & Garfunkel and, in the eyes of some, improve a song.  Eva [...]

Like a Cannon in the Rain

There are some songs that sound good forever. In 1988 The Waterboys released “Fishermans Blues”, a 13 track album without so much as a murmur from pop gurus everywhere.  Overlooked by most the title track made it to number 32 in the UK charts, and when re-released in the early nineties it scrapped to number [...]