I reflected yesterday afternoon that I’ve now been a university lecturer for 10 years. I started toward the end of 1998, filling in for my friend Bryce for a few weeks at AUT while he went and did something in the radio industry. He never came back. It also occurred to me that the first [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Digital audio player, Internet, MP3, Music, University
Clutch came over this afternoon for a couple of whiskies and to play musical join the dots – a game in which I play a song from my collection, then he plays another from his that is connected in some way (the rules are a bit vague). Bobbie was upstairs with the laptop watching something [...]
Categories: Whisky
We finally managed to get Jake a drumkit. It’s in the garage, which we’ve sort of carpeted (up the walls as well as on the floor) and it’s all set up. It looks and sounds the business. So great to hear him practising at home again. That’s birthdays and Christmasses taken care of till he’s [...]
Categories: Music
I went into Jibbering Records today for a coffee with a friend of mine to talk about an online music project. As usual, Rich (aka DJ Cro) was there, and he had just taken receipt of the new 7″ single he’s releasing by an artist called Serocee on his label Crate Escape Records (though this [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music,New Zealand
Tagged: Birmingham, Disc jockey, Music, New Zealand
We had another couchsurfer come and stay with us. An American, this time. Steve from the Bronx. Nice man, who had previously been in Vienna, but had spent a long time in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya introducing the clergy there to the idea of gay Christians. A man who’s up for a challenge, then. He [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Travel
Tagged: Birmingham, Travel
I went to see 8 sixteen 32 at the Birmingham Rep Theatre with Bobbie and her mum, who is staying with us on her way back to New Zealand. It was an amazing performance – four Grime artists trying to make it to the big time. We were there because my friend and former business [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music,Photography
Tagged: Birmingham, Music, Performing Arts, Photography, Theatre
I went to Paris this week, from Saturday to Tuesday. It was my first time there (at least, it was my first time there on purpose) and I was lucky enough to go by rail. I far prefer trains to planes. I’d been brought over by a music internet entrepreneur by the name of Antoine [...]
Tagged: Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Foie gras, France, Internet, Louvre, Music, Paris, Travel
