Ian’s blog 9th March 2025

Here is a second version of my Ricardian song called The Minstrels Did Play which has been released on Aldora Britain Records. I am singing with Pippa West on this recording. Here is the link to the song:- https://thealdorabritainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-minstrels-did-play

Ian’s blog 2nd March 2025

Here is a bit of a coincidence: John Wesley died on 2nd March 1791 and Horace Walpole died on 2nd March 1797. Both of them wrote about Richard III. John Wesley was a widely respected cleric, theologian and evangelist of the 18th century. He wrote a concise history of England in four volumes. In Volume 2, pages 27 to 65 cover the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Edward V. Pages 66 to 152 are devoted to Richard III. However he used the text from Horace Walpole’s book about Richard III. On Wikipedia it mentions this:- In spite of the proliferation of his literary output, Wesley was challenged for plagiarism, for borrowing heavily from an essay by Samuel Johnson, published in March 1775. Initially denying the charge, Wesley later apologised officially. In this section of his book Horace Walpole defended the much maligned King in great detail and states that Richard was innocent of the many crimes that he had been accused of. In short, that Henry’s character, as we have received it from his own apologists, is so much worse and hateful than Richard’s, that we may well believe Henry invented and propagated by far the greater slander against Richard : that Henry, not Richard, put to death the true duke of York, as he did the earl of Warwick : and that we are not certain whether Edward the Fifth was murdered; nor, if he was, by whose order he was murdered.

Ian’s Blog 23rd February 2025

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Ian’s Blog 16th February 2025

At about 38 minutes into Neil Vessey’s folk pilot radio show of the 5th February 2025 you can hear my song called The Philatelist. Here is the link to the radio show:- https://www.aspenwaiteradio.com/watch-again/94316

Ian’s Blog 9th February 2025

I am featured in the latest e-zine issue number 286 of Aldora Britain Records. https://bit.ly/aldorabritainrecords-magazine-286

Ian’s Blog 2nd February 2025

Here is the link to a review of my album called The Further Adventures of which is on the FATEA website written by Mike Davies https://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/reviews/LegendaryTenSeconds/

Ian’s Blog 26th January 2025

I had a really good recording session with Jay Brown on Tuesday afternoon. He played some lovely bass on four of my new songs. Two of these are astronomy themed songs and the other two are about Torquay in the 1920s. Meanwhile there is some information about my latest album on this webpage https://www.theprsd.co.uk/2025/01/14/the-further-adventures-of-the-legendary-ten-seconds/ Also here is a link to a game about the battle of Quebec which has been sent to me by Columbia games and it looks really interesting https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/columbiagames/quebec-1759?ref=3afkbc Finally I have enjoyed listening to a new album recorded by my friend Phil Swann. It is an album of instrumentals with the spoken narrative introductions of Steve Oram. One of the tunes is a reworking of an instrumental called Country Fayre which is on one of my albums that I recorded with Phil Swann who composed this music. I’d like to think that Phil's new album has been influenced by some of my stuff. Here is a link to the album which is called Existence Instrumentals https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQyjT9Si38qC4Lqq9EtTYP_utmeKF9R0g