The thing I love most about watching Liam live (at least four times now, for me) is that you get a sense that it’s on the brink of completely falling apart at any moment. And yet it works. Incidentally, he’s not the only one with a famous dad. That’s Jimmy‘s daughter EJ Barnes on backing [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand
Tagged: Music, New Zealand
I had a bit of a celebratory weekend. To kick off, it was Clutch’s stag party, which pretty much involved a bunch of really great people – many of whom I hadn’t met before – drinking a fair bit, joking around and talking nonsense. Today it was Stef Lewandowski’s 30th birthday, and that was celebrated [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Birmingham, Business, mentor, Personal, streaming, Video
John Kieffer coping with the bitter cold outside Euston station I met with John Kieffer today. As of today, he’s my mentor. John’s a well-respected figure in the creative sector. He used to be the Director of Performing Arts for the British Council, and has an astonishing CV of accomplishments. I particularly like the fact [...]
Tagged: advice, arts, Business, culture, gilles peterson, heritage, Internet, jazz, life, mentor, Music, online, Personal, Travel
The Dawsons and Jake stroll the bitterly cold streets of Hall Green My sister Kerryn, her husband Haydn and their two boys Shay and Zac came to visit from London. We just kind of hung out – a stroll to the shops, a play on the Wii (Haydn brought theirs and has left it with [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Birmingham, Personal
I’ve spent the past couple of days showing Saskia and Piet from Veronica Holdings around Birmingham, and introducing them to some of the more interesting music industry people around town. We’re going to be doing a project together, which involves music, students, mixing, DJs, gadgets and a trans-European party. My job, while they were here, [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Travel
Tagged: Birmingham, culture, Music, tourism, Travel, University
I’m in Leeds at the International Jazz Conference, hosted by the Leeds College of Music. I presented a paper with Tim Wall about how jazz music fans interact online. We think it’s interesting stuff. But the best thing about this place is the sheer overwhelming talent of the students, who seem to burst into song [...]
It turns out that self-improvement comes at a heavy cost. I’ve been trying to lose a bit of weight over the past few months. Although I maintain that I’m willing to carry a few extra pounds in the interest of good living, I think I’ve probably been ‘good living’ enough for three people throughout my [...]
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Tagged: Personal
Apparently I won the prize for best postgraduate research for 2008 at AUT‘s School of Communication Studies. They have a prizegiving ceremony tonight their time (Wednesday 12th), and Matt and Rosser from the university have both been in touch, asking me to do a video that they can play at the awards. Video is really [...]
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Tagged: University
Sadly, that’s me in car 17 Yesterday morning, my friend Clutch and I went out to the indoor go-karting track where Bobbie works. Clutch is getting married in several weeks time, and he was considering it as an event for his stag-do. Naturally, he and a friend (that would be me, then) were offered a [...]
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Tagged: Personal
Image by Photog Phillip The website, as you may notice, is not looking its usual self. I’ve been talking about a site overhaul for months now, and it’s time I got to work on it. So this weekend, I’m going to give it a go. I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, I have [...]
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Tagged: Internet
