The Silver Hedgehog Flapjack Recipe
The Silver Hedgehog Editor (JJ) posted a pic of some Flapjacks on Instagram and had some great comments so we thought it would be nice to post the recipe on the blog…
Muslim Friday Afternoon Prayer – Jumah
One of the benefits of working for a multinational organisation is working with people of all backgrounds, cultures and religious beliefs. In the spirit of inclusivity, my Muslim colleagues invited me to a company them to Friday afternoon prayer, Jumah, as it is officially called.
Cinema Paradiso (Disc Rental Service)
In this blog I am discussing cinema Paradiso, no not Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 movie, but the DVD/Blu Ray rental service that launched in 2003 by die hard movie fans. Its main focus is that of a disc based rental service for Movies and TV Shows.
TIDAL
I have reached blog number 20 with this blog!!! 🙂
In the last in my series of Music Streaming Services reviews, I am reviewing a service that is very much geared towards delivering a quality listening experience, but does it deliver? Here is my TIDAL review……
Apple Music
Apple basically invented the online music business with iTunes back in 2001. Just over a decade later in 2015 Apple created Apple Music, a music and video streaming service to compliment iTunes. Today, Apple Music has around 60 million subscribers and coincidentally around 60 million tracks across all major and independent studios……….
Amazon Music
Eager to promote its emerging entertainment strategy, Amazon launched ‘Amazon Music’ in 2007. Like other Amazon companies the music service started off small, with a catalogue of 2 million songs. It has now grown to host around 60 million songs, and has spawned sponsorship deals, concerts for Prime Video, and supported upcoming artists. The service is reported to have 55 Million Listeners…….
Spotify
First up is Spotify. This is probably the best known of the music services being discussed in this blog. The service was launched in April 2006, has 286 million users and can be found pretty much on any connected electronic device, be it games console, TV, phone, tablet, connected speaker system and has about 50 million songs………
Music Streaming Service Review
ver the last 6 months I have been testing out several music streaming services as I am interested to see how easy they are to use and what the sound quality is like. I am looking to see if a service can be affordable, great to use and bring awesome sound quality – only then will it be worthy of 5 stars from the Silver Hedgehog…
Rocketman
In its essence, Rocketman is a Biopic showing the transformation of a child named Reginald Dwight through to the pop icon that is Elton John. The movie charts his troubled formative childhood years that shows us glimpses of his genius, through to teenage years and young adult angst. It shines a window on key life events such as his coming out, drug and substance addiction and introduces us to the brilliant Bernie Taupin. All this is framed around Elton’s epic songs. It is reported that Dexter and Elton talked extensively about his younger years and this shows. Biopics can be staid, boring and procedural, this however has been injected with a massive jolt of Elton’s flamboyant personality and you get the sense you are watching a very personal history unfold on screen………
125 years of Cinema
t’s amazing to think that we have been fascinated by the moving image for centuries. It’s conceivable to think that every era of human civilisation has a record of moving pictures. Whether it is the primitive arts of Shadowgraphy (the art of performing a story by making hand shadows) to the latest 8k images we see today.