Music DVD Reviews | MTTM - More Than The Music

Feb 4, 2012

Anyone Can Play Guitar

Even as a relative newcomer to the Oxford music scene, I’m all too aware of the highs, and lows, which come with the music industry, but nowhere is this better conveyed that in Anyone Can Play Guitar. Tracking the history of a small town, from the heyday of Radiohead and Ride, to the lows of Dustball, The Candyskins and countless others who almost, but never quite made it, the...

Karine Polwart – Here’s Where Tomorrow...

‘People have this idea that folk singers are like, out in the sticks with sheep and cows and wearing wool sweaters, and I’m a bit of a stereotype. I can’t help it.’ It’s no wonder then that Karine Polwart’s latest DVD (Here’s Where Tomorrow Starts) is filmed in a variety of locations including the studio in the Borders where many of her recordings and rehearsals...

Cyndi Lauper – To Memphis With Love

‘In 1988 Fats Waller came back to me in a dream. He was sitting at a piano and said he he really liked what I did with Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On. He told me I should do the old songs and reinterpret them in my own way, like Joplin did in hers. It wasn’t until some 20 odd years later when Allen Toussaint played that descending line into Shattered...