my favourite albums of 2024

My top albums of 2024, featuring a Spotify playlist sampling songs from 30 fantastic releases.

best of 2020

Welcome back to my blog for yet another year, and thank you for continuing to drop by :). For my first post of the ...

autumn rendez-vous

Heart-stopping glances. Stolen moments. Giddy highs and melancholic lows. Tender feelings, guilty pleasures. A love ...

best of 2019 (+ bonus: best of 2018!)

Welcome back to the blog for another year - and decade! I hope 2020 is finding you content and well. If not – well, ...

2017: further explorations

Sooo... this is a slightly insanely long playlist , especially coming off the back of five hours of listening in my ...

2017: a musical odyssey (part two)

8tracks tips | Spotify version | View image In  Part One , I shared songs from my most-loved albums ...

2017: a musical odyssey (part one)

8tracks tips  |  Spotify version | View image Okay, so it's nearly March, which probably makes ...

adieu, johnny

Photo: Mademoiselle Age Tendre , November 1969. Johnny Hallyday 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017 French pop has lost ...

françoise hardy's hit parade, 1966

While flipping through my collection of vintage French magazines the other day, I came across an interesting little ...