Having been asked to review a few albums now, I decided to set up a separate blog dedicated to such a task. I’m calling it IMHO, based on the text speak of the youth, and of course the fact that the reviews will be my honest opinion. People are welcome to send their albums for review, (I will also throw in some radio play) at their own risk as I intend to be totally free from bias and pressure to be nice. Of course I’ll say positive things, but I won’t be afraid to say it like it is either. Aside from request reviews I will be doing album (and EP) reviews off my own back with the declaration that once I have posted a review, it will not be removed or retracted. Also, and simply because I can, I will pick albums from my own collection to write retrospective reviews on. The retrospective reviews will fill the hole left by my decision to end the Steve’s LP Box podcast series.

There are two albums already on there; Embers to Empires by Our Last Confession, and 2Sides by Eddie & The Hot Rods. I have Steve McGill’s latest album to do (another request), and an idea of the first retrospective review. However, these will be based on that most erratic system of mine, the I’ll-do-it-when-I-have-time system, so don’t expect to be able to set your calendar to this new blog.

With so much going on at the moment, I wasn’t sure if I should even bother at all with this particular project but decided to plod along with it for a number of reasons. The main reason being that I can write with freedom. Also, with so little money set aside for freelancers these days, I can’t wait around to be asked anymore. There lies the beauty of the internet, you can just get on with it and cross your fingers that you might one day be asked to do it for money. The PayPal button will be placed at the top just as it is with this blog, so that I can put the money raised into funding other projects that will be made available free of charge. This is certainly a more painless method than the crowd funding campaign to make the film about The Sunday Alternative, which has hardly left the starting blocks. I’m going to bide my time before going all out with an aggressive bit of promotion towards the end of the campaign’s time limit. The PayPal button is going to come into use pretty soon in fact, because I have two possible projects (that might of course end up never happening, que sera sera); an online comedy sketch series and a cookery related web series. Both look inexpensive on paper, but unfortunately they are not being filmed on paper. That would make them cartoons.

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