Podcasts by Brierly Hill 90210
Previously an occasional podcast of new, good and/or interesting music. But, starting in 2020, a change of format and frequency. Weekly (mostly) new episodes telling the story of a different year through music and "found sounds".
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2021 from 2021-12-29T14:45:25
As 2021 begins, continuing the saga from last year, our house is still on the market, but there's more interest and it looks we'll be making a decision soon; should we stay or should we go?
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1975 from 2021-12-07T01:48:13
I was 8-years old as the year began so was mostly interested in riding my bike, climbing on the backs of tractors as the summer harvest was brought in, waiting until prompted to yell “Crackerjack” ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1976 from 2021-10-30T23:01:51
For reasons that we'll get into in the next episode, the plan had been to start this series in 1977. But that was always a bit misleading as it started with events that happened at the end of the y...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2020 from 2021-09-24T00:08:33
We'd been living in our “dream house” for 12 years but, it having been built in the 19th century, there was always something failing, breaking or otherwise needing repair. It was beginning to take ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2020 *UPDATED* from 2021-09-24T00:08:33
We'd been living in our “dream house” for 12 years but, it having been built in the 19th century, there was always something failing, breaking or otherwise needing repair. It was beginning to take ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2019 from 2021-09-11T11:44:51
The year begins with the US Government shut down over a refusal to fund Trumps wall on the Mexico border.
Globally, many are starting to wake up to the potential impact of climate change, ...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2018 from 2021-08-31T00:24:44
I missed a mention of turning 50 a couple of episodes ago. Probably from being in denial.
I know the cliche about age just being a number. But there is something about reaching that partic...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2017 from 2021-08-22T13:18:57
I only recorded one new podcast episode in 2017. Looking back, I'm not sure if there's any one reason why the show slowly petered out, though there would be a couple more shows in 2018 before work ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2016 from 2021-08-09T12:43:57
I started recording this series in 2020 and it's 2021 as I record this episode. Depending on when you're listening to this of course (it could be 2030 and I'm coming to you from the implant behind ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2015 from 2021-07-29T10:54:13
In some previous episodes, I've spoken of a glut of good music for certain years. This time, more than any other I can remember, I have more news stories than usual. I think that's partly due to se...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2014 from 2021-07-18T12:34:33
I mentioned last time that I wasn't really enjoying my job. I felt too old to mix it up with the youngsters at a New York technology start-up. But after a few years of job hunting, I finally landed...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2013 from 2021-07-05T13:21:32
I wasn't really enjoying my job as a product manager for a software company in New York. I shouldn't have had anything to complain about; the work was challenging, I was getting good experience and...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2012 from 2021-06-28T14:14
The kids are growing up. One is 6 as the year begins and our youngest turns 4 in January. He's sick a lot and it'll be another 5 years before we find out why.
In America, the economy conti...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2011 from 2021-06-19T13:59:08
I had started a new job in 2010 after spending the best part of a year out of work. I was now a project manager and integration consultant working for a start-up company in New York. 2011 saw me wo...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2010 from 2021-06-06T11:59:18
The year started with me still not in full-time employment. But I was doing contract work for a major US health insurance company so was better off than most. But come February, one of my previous ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2009 from 2021-04-23T12:17:31
After living in our new house in Pennsylvania for a year, we corrected our mistake of not selling our old house first by finally off-loading it for far less than we'd planned. That was obviously no...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2008 from 2021-04-10T13:03:03
As a small child, I remember driving with my parents to Evesham to visit my grandparents and seeing a hill completely covered with trees except a small clearing in the middle and down one side. I r...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2007 from 2021-03-29T14:02:56
Being a first-time parent with a 1-year-old is thrilling, frightening, fun and exhausting. With a life that revolved around eating, feeding, sleeping, doctor's visits, social interaction with other...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2006 from 2021-03-22T11:48:45
Becoming a first time dad at 40 was exhausting. I felt too old for it yet knew I had been too immature to have done it earlier. Our son was NOT a good sleeper. My recollection of that time was sitt...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2005 from 2021-03-14T12:08:09
The year begins with George W Bush celebrating a second term as US president while the world mourns and prays for those effected by the massive Indian Ocean tsunami at the end of 2004.
On ...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2004 from 2021-02-25T13:10:38
Does any day, week, month or year feel like the end of something as it's happening? It's only in hindsight that, usually as the result of a new beginning, you see the previous end for what it was. ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2003 from 2021-01-15T00:42:21
I switched from Windows to Mac in 2003 and bought by first iPod. It was still the early days of online music and Apple had “New Music Tuesday” when they would give away a newly released track and w...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2002 from 2020-12-24T19:35:15
The year started with America still coming to terms with a new world after September 11th the year before. Everybody was getting used to new security restrictions, myself included as I continued wo...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2001 from 2020-11-18T12:48:34
I started my new job in January and began a new routine; 1 week in the office in California and the rest of each month working from home in New Jersey. That suited me, greatly reducing the amount o...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2000 from 2020-11-02T22:37:11
This new year heralded not just a new millennium but many new things on the personal front as well. We had been married 6 months and I broke out on my own to become a self-employed software develop...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1999 from 2020-10-18T15:13:49
In the second episode where music and the outside world were things that happened to other people, I got married in October of 1999. So a big chunk of the year was spent gearing up for that. The of...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1998 from 2020-09-30T23:41:33
This is the start of a period when I took my eye off the ball that is music and it smacked me square in the face... or it went sailing over my head or hit me in the groin, depending on how you look...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1997 *UPDATED* from 2020-09-13T14:48:48
Two personal highlights in 1997... I saw the Lollapalooza tour three times in Dallas, Columbus and Philadelphia. It's on record as not being one of the best but I loved it, getting to see The Prodi...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1996 *UPDATED* from 2020-09-06T19:34:53
I had just started a 3-year secondment to my company's office in the United States. My first assignment, continuing from the previous year, was just north of Los Angeles in California. The Brierly ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1995 *UPDATED* from 2020-08-30T20:42:30
It was an eventful year with a lot of traveling which is mirrored in an extended and varied soundtrack. There's a lot of music packed into this episode. You'll hear a beginning in the UK followed b...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1994 *UPDATED* from 2020-08-13T11:54:29
Early in 1994 I took a new job as a computer programmer for a company based out of Dudley in the West Midlands. At the age of 28, one would expect some maturity but, with incredible naivety, I went...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1993 *UPDATED* from 2020-08-01T23:49:38
I moved house at the beginning of 1993. It would turn out to be my last move within Cheltenham and I would only be there one more year. I was now living in the center of town in a one-bedroom flat ...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1992 *UPDATED* from 2020-07-24T02:04:58
In some ways, 1992 feels like the start of something. Looking at what's lined up in this episode, there are a lot of new beginnings. John Major has replaced Margaret Thatcher as leader of the Conse...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1991 *UPDATED* from 2020-07-12T13:59:22
1990 saw several stories left with cliff-hanger endings. Iraq has invaded Kuwait with the United Nations establishing international embargoes and resolutions that clear the way for a military inter...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1990 *UPDATED* from 2020-07-04T13:43
For those that missed the beginning, this series started in 1977 and the last episode saw the end of a decade with 1989. In 13 years, music went from The Ramones and The Sex Pistols to James and Th...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1989 *UPDATED* from 2020-06-27T01:06:34
In the last episode, I made the correlation between the lack of good music and an increased number of Australian actors in the charts in the late 80s. Don't get me wrong... I have nothing against A...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1988 *UPDATED* from 2020-06-20T14:42:38
For the previous episodes in this series, I've only used music from my existing record collection (or whatever the digital equivalent is called these days). For this episode, that bucket came up fr...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1987 *UPDATED* from 2020-06-14T01:38:57
In 1987, I moved from my parents in the sleepy Cotswold Hills into a rented three-bedroom house in the sprawling metropolis of Cheltenham Spa. I wasn't earning much money but I found enough for bee...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1986 *UPDATED* from 2020-06-07T03:25:24
I was 19 as 1986 began. Technically an adult, drinking in pubs and even had my own car; a 1968 Mini Clubman estate, blue with fake wood side panels. I still lived with my parents even though my YTS...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1985 *UPDATED* from 2020-05-31T03:33:48
Stephen King said that, if you want to be writer you must do two things; read a lot and write a lot. The same is true with music. Any budding musician must listen to a lot of music. I'd been playin...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1984 *UPDATED* from 2020-05-23T23:53:57
I had left school in the summer of 1983, a year early and to the disappointment of many, not going onto university. Instead, I became a “Computer Room Operator” for a replacement door and window ma...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1983 *UPDATED* from 2020-05-16T14:39:28
At the start of 1983, I was 16. Still too young-looking to get served in pubs and, to be honest, I wasn't that interested in it anyway. I'd stayed on at school with the intention of completing some...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1982 *UPDATED* from 2020-05-09T21:44:42
When someone asked John Peel what the best year for music was, he said “this one”. I've been recording a podcast focused on new music for 15 years so I understand and agree with that sentiment. But...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1981 *UPDATED* from 2020-05-02T22:47:54
In some ways, 1981 was the last year of my childhood. I started 5th form so it was the last year of school for some of my friends. They would be going out to the real world while, though I didn't k...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1980 *UPDATED* from 2020-04-25T11:10:59
As a teenager in the Gloucestershire countryside, financial opportunities were few and far between. The only way to indulge my fledgling love of music was to buy a handful of 7” singles a year with...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1979 *UPDATED* from 2020-04-18T12:21:08
I became a teenager in 1979 and my passage to manhood was marked by switching my weekly comic subscription from Beano to The Crunch while still deciding if the world was better served by Match or S...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1978 *UPDATED* from 2020-04-10T15:26:06
In 1978, James Callaghan was Prime Minister of Great Britain while leader of the opposition, Margaret Thatcher, hovered in the wings. The brutal Khmer Rouge regime led Cambodia under leader Pol Pot...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1977 *UPDATE2* from 2020-03-29T19:49:59
This series rediscovers a period of music and the news, TV and other sounds that formed a back-drop to it. Each new episode will continue the chronological series, building onto a story that is bot...
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1977 *UPDATE3* from 2020-03-29T19:49:59
In many ways 1977 is the real start of this story, both personally and globally. Anything that came before was, in hindsight, back-story, context and childhood.
1976 saw political change a...