Alex Markham

Joined January 2021

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Music, short fiction and travel, all with a touch of humour.

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5 Myths About Buenos Aires You Should Ignore
Throw away those Buenos Aires guidebooks and ignore the travel blogs — they’re all wrong and possibly even dangerous. I’ve come to the conclusion that Buenos Aires travel blogs are written by those who’ve never been there or those who stayed in the tourist areas and in tourist hotels only.
By Alex Markham3 months ago in Wander
The Tragic Story Of Badfinger
Badfinger was the first signing to The Beatles’ Apple label. They had a distinctly Beatle sound that became even more pronounced due to their connections with the band.
By Alex Markham3 months ago in Beat
The Day I Ate A Penis
I suppose I should have realised it was an odd-looking sausage. This was supposed to have been a day of truffle and organic honey tasting in the small agricultural town of Ossett in the Community of Valencia, Spain.
By Alex Markham3 months ago in Wander
A Little Ol’ Wine Drinking You and Me
“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food,” WC Fields. Right on WC although I’m not sure I’d have used the initials WC if it were me, especially at my time of life.
By Alex Markham5 months ago in Wander
McCartney’s Greatest Post Beatle Songs
Some people continue to claim Macca has done nothing significant since 1969. This opinion is not borne out by the facts. Maybe this view is due to the occasional piece of nonsense he puts out such as, Mary Had A Little Lamb and that damn Frog Song. A Lennon filter might have made him see sense before getting into the studio.
By Alex Markham5 months ago in Beat
Songs That Influenced Classic Pop Hits
An angry George Harrison was found guilty in court for having plagiarised He’s So Fine by the Chiffons for My Sweet Lord, albeit subconsciously. The reason he lost was, once My Sweet Lord is put into the same key as He’s So Fine, the musical structure is identical.
By Alex Markham5 months ago in Beat
The Rejected Bond Themes
“Oooooooooooooooooh. Flew in from Valencia Beach, budget airline, didn’t get much sleep last night,” (on account of the flight being at 7.40 in the morning).
By Alex Markham5 months ago in Wander
Weird Bruce Springsteen Stuff
Springsteen is not an American icon; he’s a global icon who just happens to have been born in the USA. See what I did there?
By Alex Markham5 months ago in Beat
What The Hell Do They Put In The New Jersey Water?
There's something strange going on in New Jersey and it's been going on for years. Throughout history, we’ve seen clusters of expertise develop suddenly in a geographical region. We saw the industrial revolution kick off in Britain and the technological revolution on the West Coast of the USA, for example.
By Alex Markham6 months ago in Beat
Thank God for Deus Ex Machina
I stared over the lip of the volcano. The venting gases and Earth tremors were not supposed to be happening. I knew the volcano was technically active, but it hadn’t erupted for over a century. There was no report of any predicted seismic activity. It was why I was there, taking the opportunity to say I’d been to an ‘active’ volcano and look cool on Instagram selfies.
By Alex Markham8 months ago in Fiction
The Festival of the Dead
It's the start of the Dark Half when the boundary to the Otherworld is at its weakest. The souls of the deceased, the Aos Sí, will move more easily into our world on this night; they will return to their former homes and loved ones for one night.
By Alex Markham8 months ago in Beat
This is Why The Beatles Were the Greatest Band Ever
The first moon landing, the Sept 11th attack, and the fall of the Berlin Wall; some historic moments stay with you forever and you remember exactly what you were doing when they happened.
By Alex Markham8 months ago in Beat