The title of this post is borrowed from a song by The Veils and it’s kind of in response to all of the people I know who are having children right now. It’s pretty much an epidemic. Everyone seems either about to have a baby, to have recently had a baby, or just found out [...]
Categories: Family
Boat trip from Genoa to Camogli As expected, I had a great time in Italy. I was busy pretty much the whole time, but I did make sure that I got to see a bit of the city, hang out with some great people and do some interesting things. I was in Genoa with Stef [...]
Categories: Travel
The Aftershock musicians on a lunchbreak I wish there’d been time to blog what I’ve been doing over the past few days, but I’ve been so busy doing it that the opportunity just never presented itself. My friend Stef and I are working on a project in Italy called Aftershock. It’s a collaboration between musicians [...]
This man and this woman are remarkably kind & generous human beings My flight back from Holland to Birmingham today left at 10.15am. I was not on it. I stayed the night at Lykle’s place in Groningen last night, and we were up at 5am getting ready so I could make it to the 6am [...]
Categories: Travel
Krause celebrates her pre-release album promo I spent the day at the offices of New Music Labs in Groningen. The morning was spent catching up with emails and phone calls, but by lunchtime, there was a steady stream of visitors bearing problems, questions and gifts. Krause (above), who has a record deal with Sony, came [...]
Lykle, Marco and Niels in Leeuwarden Spent most of yesterday in the city of Leeuwarden, meeting with students and other interested parties at the Academie Voor Popcultuur, where Niels Aalberts, Marco Raaphorst and I talked as a group and with individuals throughout the afternoon. Niels is an independent A&R/Manager who represents Kyteman (amazingly popular trumpeter [...]
Ard & Lykle at the New Music Labs office. I’m spending this morning working in the office of New Music Labs, Lopend Vuur and De Ondernemers – three inter-related businesses in online music, design and promotion based in Groningen in the North of Holland. I’m over here to consult and speak at the Academy of [...]
Categories: Travel
In the past week or so, I’ve spent a good deal of time in the company of some devout Christians. It’s not something I ordinarily do – not because I go out of my way to avoid them, I just don’t tend to move in those circles. Of course, when you start out not realising [...]
Categories: Travel
I thought I’d lay off posting music videos here for a bit, but I thought since I shot this one myself, it was a good idea to put it up. I’m in Manchester at a music industry conference called Un-Convention. It’s one of those events where you know quite a few of the people involved, [...]
Tagged: Manchester, Music, Video
