Music Mate
Your monthly music column with Franki August
I think it’s fair to say that these uncertain times impact us all in different ways. Some of us get...
‘Google it’ is so entrenched in our everyday vernacular, most have probably forgotten how we used to ‘Ask Jeeves’ to settle pop culture trivia or reveal the capital city of some obscure former Soviet state. But well before we had our own virtual valets there was Archie – before most even had computers in our households, let alone an internet connection.
Though it’s somewhat subjective, a good case can be made for music being the most evocative, immediate, and downright powerful art form. It’s also one of the of the oldest and most mysterious.
“If you made soup with Ed Sheeran tunes and Taylor Swift tunes you’d get some tasty Franki August singer-songwriter soup!”
Yao’s impressive heritage stretches more than 2,000 years, all the way back to the Qin dynasty. Equally impressive is the length of the women’s hair.
