Mumubl.com | Jenny Lind | Friends Activity https://mumubl.com/members/jennylind/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Jenny Lind's friends. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:12:14 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 b803523eb2b58d71bbe3f78176414f37 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.com/?p=13151 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:28:54 +0000 The underdog of guitar solos Reasonably recently I got the pleasure of watching Turin Brakes live for the first time in about 20 years since catching them a couple of times in […]

]]> 6ef85714ba26fd8be561d835ce4c8792 Dave Sparks changed their profile picture https://mumubl.com/activity/p/974/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:52:28 +0000 0 2d32e61a2f8e472e1832b0077ed1a586 Dave Sparks added a new article - The old songs, we love to hear https://mumubl.com/activity/p/946/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:57:10 +0000 0 3e8f9d5c6e5c00fd8cc89265ac94aa4d Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.com/?p=12810 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:57:10 +0000 The old songs, we love to hear Christmas is wedded to nostalgia, in the UK it’s often a nostalgia for a white Christmas. Which is weird when you look at the numbers and see there’s been […]

]]> 660de7bc97c4cfa557bbfabf2d17e669 Dave Sparks added a new article - Don't believe them the original isn't always the best https://mumubl.com/activity/p/932/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:50:52 +0000 0 2b272c71048532a49973d7b34a752247 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.com/?p=12757 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:50:52 +0000 Don't believe them the original isn't always the best Having flung myself headlong into Ben Folds Five in the late 90s / early 2000s the 2001 solo album “Rockin’ the suburbs” was for me considered in the same […]

]]> b2917a6cafe48d15f4f063f4bd70ff28 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.com/?p=12753 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:55:36 +0000 A gateway to hard jazz I remember first encountering Jamie Cullum but it took me a while to remember where and it turns out it was the 2003 V-festival in Staffordshire, the […]

]]> 4b812e95f17f48f2561c8e14bbdf4e54 Dave Sparks added a new article - The importance of MTV https://mumubl.com/activity/p/801/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:34:18 +0000 0 835f8f59ff59e4a2a27655064fc8cdb4 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.com/?p=12287 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:34:18 +0000 The importance of MTV The recent Foo Fighters album feels so familiar, in a good way. I’ll often find myself listening to it and being reminded of so many of the old Foo’s songs […]

]]> b5306d51c4412c6d1b83ea1aed4cc79a Dave Sparks added a new article - New Christmas songs work - with a hint of nostalgia https://mumubl.com/activity/p/627/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:57:22 +0000


New Christmas songs work – with a hint of nostalgia

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]]> 0 8fb95bae70b68babad8c229c983e551e Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.com/?p=10493 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:57:21 +0000 I read somewhere that new Christmas songs don’t work. I didn’t get into the article but I fundamentally disagree, I’ve discovered some great Christmas songs in recent years, yes it’s a time when we rely on old […]

]]> a9044322051619659e9808dfb3011b5f Dave Sparks added a new article - Drifting in and out https://mumubl.com/activity/p/568/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:44:36 +0000


Drifting in and out

I think I’ve written this before but Gomez…

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]]> 0 0b1bb475ad9321d53391fbd5f4175298 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.com/?p=11669 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:44:36 +0000 I think I’ve written this before but Gomez were the first band I ever saw live – or at least that’s what I tell people. I did see Steps or possibly S-Club 7, at least someone of that ilk, at a local kids disco […]

]]> c48aeac7f8a11d11829b4516c1b85f5f Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.com/?p=10962 Sun, 08 May 2022 12:45:00 +0000 The Stereophonics dropped a new album recently, I hadn’t heard much pre-release, I just noticed it in my Spotify feed and thought “I’ll give that a spin”. It’s not bad, but I was mostly struck by the sweet […]

]]> d178d082298e4c117d37df856069796a Dave Sparks added a new article - It only takes one track https://mumubl.com/activity/p/397/ Tue, 03 May 2022 21:14:41 +0000


It only takes one track

The Stereophonics dropped a new album…

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]]> 0 e7ba33fd9ad560f47a38e3e8a57ab0b8 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.wpengine.com/?p=10866 Sat, 26 Mar 2022 20:11:25 +0000 I’m at a point in my life where I’ve seen plenty of musical figures pass away, artists I’ve grown up with. In the last few years some colossal figures have died, but for some reason the death of Taylor Hawki […]

]]> d33da9071a625c17eb211dbbe892e5a3 Dave Sparks added a new article - Oh, dig it https://mumubl.com/activity/p/179/ Sat, 12 Jun 2021 21:37:36 +0000 0 03f923f3889214ec5f8e6fff07903a80 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://mumubl.wpengine.com/?p=3789 Sat, 12 Jun 2021 21:37:36 +0000 I recently had a guitar repaired* and when I got it back the first thing I did was blast out the opening to this song. I don’t know why but at some point it became my go to riff. I guess I got comfortable playing […]

]]> 44b59e21e0caa099c8fac80bcd1caab6 Dave Sparks added a new article - A vocal reimagining https://mumubl.com/activity/p/164/ Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:33:06 +0000 0 4266e3907704b538a0597a2dd1f8dc4b Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://18.168.139.207/?p=5151 Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:33:03 +0000 There’s a long historic tradition of purely vocal music, beat boxing, choirs, the recent resurgence of sea shanty’s, babershop -  after all beside maybe percussion the voice is the one instrument we’ve always […]

]]> e7ea625e085c86a85c89b68ae21fdb3b Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://18.168.139.207/?p=3795 Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:42:36 +0000 There’s a great relatability in a working class person singing songs about their hometown. Especially one with a way with words who can create a captivating story in a three minute song. Think early Oasis or the […]

]]> 2507236874668456ea66574b263cb954 Dave Sparks added a new article - The curse of the successful working class raconteur https://mumubl.com/activity/p/112/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:42:36 +0000


The curse of the successful working class raconteur

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]]> 0 5f6306c3a6cfe280a2529a4da45b29a8 Dave Sparks's profile was updated https://mumubl.com/activity/p/110/ Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:43:56 +0000 0 90a5c5d7069bdac0e74edc8d8e159275 Dave Sparks added a new article - Morning https://mumubl.com/activity/p/65/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:43:01 +0000 0 91b7a633eff2fc034f01945c8c7148a4 Dave Sparks changed their profile picture https://mumubl.com/activity/p/56/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:35:22 +0000 0 00bbc6b3c21f2c97648560f0d30bece0 Dave Sparks's profile was updated https://mumubl.com/activity/p/47/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:22:17 +0000 0 2a359a74cd7ca48de8660bfef692ffbf Dave Sparks became a registered member https://mumubl.com/activity/p/5/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:58:25 +0000 0 a5e077e75abba7efd0d475befe368ec4 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3832 Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:21:25 +0000 I remember over the years many people who have commented about listening to downbeat music, asking why you’d want to. Which I guess I understand, I mean it’s a valid question, why would you want to listen to […]

]]> 87fd58e0c50821014ee77fc6b118d391 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3831 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:39:15 +0000 In the not too distant past Radio 2 compiled a list of the top 100 guitar riffs. It’s a list that’s topped by Led Zepplin’s Whole lotta love and generally full of the tracks you’d expect. The inclusion of the […]

]]> 755907a8a9df828b2a6fe2a5c46ec769 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3830 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:30:07 +0000 I have a long love affair with Ben Fold’s music but Way to normal may just have been the album where that started to show strains. Not that it isn’t a good album or that I don’t like it, just that it doesn’t live […]

]]> d448b7ddb20f4a88b03c9d87c14f8177 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3829 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:16:54 +0000 I’m sure I’ve said before on here but the power of music to conjure up thoughts of different times and places is sometimes phenomenal. For this track in particular it’s time I spent living […]

]]> 894abad09f104eb3e7861746d0b6acde Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3828 Tue, 06 May 2014 13:08:59 +0000 There are many firsts through your life that you can probably remember, first gig is definitely one of them. Mine was the Royal Court in Liverpool in ’99. Off the back of their Mercury music prize win the year […]

]]> f1f3698b3e8c65371ce0dc6b38c9b18f Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3827 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:00:34 +0000 I think my first introduction to this song was via the Greenday cover version, possibly done for a Pepsi advert or at least used on one. It’s a song we used to play with my band in […]

]]> 98880b5b427303b511d9318f73277e92 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3826 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:09:24 +0000 I’m pretty sure as a result of this song there’s a generation of people who can only count past five in Spanish by saying cinco, twice. It’s a straightforward story of a guy trying to be […]

]]> 2f9c6986e66ef14dd46d492251a1217b Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3825 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:41:26 +0000 When somebody uses the phrase “one hit wonder” I imagine everyone has a certain track that springs to mind, there must be a different tune for every generation. For me it’s Chesney Hawkes with the “The One and […]

]]> b7ef3b479d56ebdfeb30e68db11ab9e9 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3824 Tue, 28 May 2013 16:39:04 +0000 Apparently listening to albums is a dying thing, people don’t do it so much anymore. It’s all about the quick gratification of a top single, something to do with people having no […]

]]> e60a5f8cec041db6ac5a137505c8400a Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3823 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:23:52 +0000 For many years Lenny Kravitz was similar to so many other acts, I was aware of him, heard a few tracks but never had a big interest. Then I picked up his greatest hits a couple of years after my interest had been […]

]]> e09753d61ddb82d753e4516680a3154d Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3822 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:32:42 +0000 Back in the long gone days of 2001 I kept up regularly with the music press, I’d had a subscription to NME at the newsagents which meant every week I’d pop across and collect a copy that […]

]]> 8713209a326f99fdaff0f66067952a69 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3821 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:01:22 +0000 Ah Monty Python, a comedy education of which it should be compulsory to study. The series may not quite hold as well today although there are still great sketches hidden amongst them, the films though are still o […]

]]> 20d1dc050ed02c4a35a642e16dad23da Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3820 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:54:31 +0000 I didn’t grow up listening to rap, in fact I don’t generally listen to it now. However select rap songs find their way into my listening habits. As a youngster growing up in the north west of England I wasn’t […]

]]> c4b371b14a269292b9ddfc16ed408708 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3819 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:39:17 +0000 I remember “getting” the album this track was on, and I guess I should say “Thanks Napster” or LimeWire or whatever was being used back in 2001. I remember it was a time when I made an effort with acquired […]

]]> 8ff1dc8e71d3d0867cd3692c2892093c Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3818 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:53:02 +0000 Many many years ago people used to buy music singles, nowadays they just download the track they want – B-Sides are a thing of the past, in fact I’d imagine the term B-side will mean little to a lot of younger […]

]]> b70461632edf5f9819e9fa5b003a07c7 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3817 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:36:52 +0000 Everyone knows the story of Tommy and Gina don’t they? This must be one of those tracks that surely everyone has danced to? Weddings, Birthdays, in fact any party event this track […]

]]> a2460f8bbfdaad47d589279c28a36711 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3816 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:44:52 +0000 I remember learning to play guitar, after getting some basic stuff from beginner books I started buying Total Guitar magazine and as I went through my early teens learning to p […]

]]> d3f5c5df72e6712d2a3b56da60234f0f Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3815 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:23:21 +0000 Having just got back from holiday I enjoyed more than a fair bit of time lying back on a sun lounger enjoying some music. Having spent ages loading up my iPhone and carefully fitting as much music as […]

]]> a877691a920abf197ac60d8991d154e5 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3814 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:11:06 +0000 It’s Bond time again and it seems to be more popular than ever, as we lead up to the 23rd film the new theme “Skyfall” has been released – sounding very much like a homage to the […]

]]> e288030f06859b7e8a3bd2eaba8d38cf Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3813 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:12:58 +0000 I never quite got original punk music, I got all the rebellion and stuff, but maybe the sound was a thing of it’s time that just never appealed to me. I can listen to a handful of tracks by The Ramones or the Sex […]

]]> 9fa96b6685b47c523d170405fde63134 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3812 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:01:27 +0000 Many moons ago I was in a band, we started sometime around ’98 – ’99 in school and played throughout our college lives. Mostly in Widnes but also made our way to the city lights of Liverpool and Manchester. Sadly […]

]]> a9025bc6eec771e8b641d754d8de7c5b Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3811 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:13:17 +0000 I’ve always enjoyed this track, in no small part that’s due to the simple catchy riff which was probably one I picked up early on when playing the guitar and it’s pretty easy to remember.But what also strikes me […]

]]> e513f9bb52da2cdfc5d5e710507c5047 Dave Sparks wrote a new post https://dev2.mumubl.com/?p=3810 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:17:51 +0000 I imagine there’s few artists that have had a film that had as much impact on recognition of their music as “Walk the Line” did for Johnny Cash. It pretty much introduced a new generation to the music of […]

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