This is my 40th birthday present from Bobbie. Apparently I’m quite hard to buy for. Personally, I don’t see it. But nobody wants to buy me records because they somehow think that because I have a lot of them, I won’t appreciate them as a gift. In fact, the opposite is true. I have a [...]
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Don’t meet your heroes. Best case scenario, you’re just going to come across as a grinning idiot. Of all places, I went down to Swindon yesterday, and spoke at a music industry symposium that had been put on by the Borough Council. I couldn’t for the life of me figure how I fit into the [...]
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You know what I never noticed about Oxford when Jake and I went by ourselves? It’s full of clothing stores and shoe shops. Shopper’s paradise I had a meeting organised with Joff Winks this weekend to talk about music and strategies for online promotion. He’s based in Oxford, and it’s such a lovely place to [...]
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Every now and then, we open up our home to strangers. But it’s all right — we meet them on the internet first. Anton, surfer of couches, and the couch on which he surfed I’m a member of CouchSurfing.com — a global community of people who offer and request a place to sleep while travelling. [...]
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I’m on the other side of the world. Allow me a moment of national identity. Rhys Darby. Making robot noises, as it happens. The real highlight of the New York trip? Well, it wasn’t the panel session I was part of, though the people I spoke with were interesting and the discussion fascinating. And it [...]
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I was taken out to lunch by one of jazz’s most accomplished pianists — D.D. Jackson. He reads my other blog, New Music Strategies and wanted to interview me for his podcast. One of the people who helped me get to the US to attend the CMJ Music Marathon was jazz pianist and Downbeat Magazine [...]
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I’d seen New York in movies, of course. But for some reason, I hadn’t expected to see the movies in New York. I went shopping in Midtown on my one afternoon off while in New York. I wandered streets that looked really familiar, though of course I’d never been there. Then I saw a face [...]
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I bought some whisky at JFK airport — and I nearly lost it. So glad I didn’t. While this isn’t exactly an experience from my time in New York, it was something that I purchased there, and then had to go to great lengths to ensure that I was able to hang onto it when [...]
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Having abandoned the idea of a chronological account of my visit to New York, I thought I’d just drop a few vignettes — short stories of little things that happened while I was there. Cute Mike (right) with NZ music management legend Rhys ‘Murray’ Darby So I’m at a pub across the road from the [...]
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What began as a week of work, music, networking and fun in New York ended up being an adventure and an ordeal at the hands of a budget airline. View from the cab ride to JFK. This is where it started. I had planned to write more at length about the CMJ Music Marathon, the [...]
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