So, here’s a big crossword for you to get your teeth into over the festive break. I’ve put together a fun and (hopefully) challenging puzzle that will test your knowledge of the year in music and of the channel. All the answers will be in my videos somewhere, and you’ll probably be able to guessContinue reading “#37 – Fancy Winning a Year’s Membership of my YouTube Channel?”
Category Archives: Reaction Channel
#27 – W/C 22nd April 2024 on Adventures In Music
It’s been a great week of music on the channel, with two full albums from Pain Of Salvation and Alice in Chains, a Theme Songs feature focusing on monkeys, a single song reaction to a brand new Finnish prog metal band Katoaja and the routine upload of some more of my own original music. TheContinue reading “#27 – W/C 22nd April 2024 on Adventures In Music”
#25 – The Tool Page
Here I am collecting together all of the full album play-through/reactions of Tool’s that I’ve done on my channel. I will also start doing the same with some of the other multi-album reactions. I also spoke on the latest video about a new book I’ve got called Tool On Track: Every Album,Every Song. It isContinue reading “#25 – The Tool Page”
#19 – People Say The Nicest Things (1)
There are many reasons why making the videos I do on YouTube give me pleasure, but right at the top is the community, and the feedback I receive. It still blows me away that the silly little videos I make have such a positive effect on my audience. In case you missed them in theContinue reading “#19 – People Say The Nicest Things (1)”
#14 – Haken (rhymes with bacon!)
There’s something slightly ubiquitous about progressive music and beards. No one exemplifies that more than London based Haken. Whilst the photo above might look like the mug shots for a diamond heist gang from the East End, it is in fact a picture of prog metal supremos Haken. I first heard these guys in 2018,Continue reading “#14 – Haken (rhymes with bacon!)”
#08 – Jim: The Accidental YouTuber
The empty chair, and the wall of records behind me. Its a bit like the proverbial blank piece of paper for the writer…. where do I start? What am I listening to? How NOT to procrastinate! I was going to call this post “How Do You Make A Reaction Video?” but to answer that, I’dContinue reading “#08 – Jim: The Accidental YouTuber”
#07 – Music That Sounds Like Geography!
When Craig suggested Sólstafir’s album Ótta for me to play on the channel, he knew how much I’d LOVE this record! I’ll admit, before the record arrived courtesy of my generous benefactor, I’d never heard of them. Worse still, once arrived, I didn’t listen to the record! There was just so much other music toContinue reading “#07 – Music That Sounds Like Geography!”
#01 – So, I started a YouTube reaction channel
Back in 2018, I started making fun, silly YouTube reaction videos. I was bored, missing my fiends, missing sharing music and crucially missing the conversation around music. Of course I’d come across the phenomenon of reaction videos on YouTube first hand and had personally discovered a wealth of new music as a result of them.Continue reading “#01 – So, I started a YouTube reaction channel”
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