Where Fools Fear To Tread — A Snapshot of San Francisco

15/02/202315/02/2023 ~ Eric Brightwell ~ 8 Comments

A beautiful day in San Francisco In early January, Una and I headed north over to San Francisco to visit my sister, who was in town for a conference. I figured it might be a nice opportunity to share some thoughts about "the City." Since first visiting in 1998, I've been to San Francisco many … Continue reading Where Fools Fear To Tread — A Snapshot of San Francisco

Ride rolls into the Warfield — and their thirteen most massive tunes

15/04/201515/04/2015 ~ Eric Brightwell ~ Leave a comment

I'm currently down in San Francisco (well, Richmond actually) to see Ride play. Ride, for those keeping score, were the best of a crop of bands known way back in the early 1990s as shoegazers. Like most British bands that survived into those dark years of the mid-1990s, when a collective craze for slow motion guitar … Continue reading Ride rolls into the Warfield — and their thirteen most massive tunes