Every two years (give or take) the Radio Studies Network holds their international conference somewhere in the world. I went to my first one in Madison, Wisconsin in 2003 – and that’s where I met Prof. Tim Wall, who was the guy who arranged for me to come to Birmingham in the first place. We [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Travel,University
Tim, Dr Jazz and Jez in front of our grand hotel in Scarborough It’s not quite ‘New York, London, Paris, Munich’… but I did spend last week in that many cities – and we did talk about Pop Music. Liverpool I returned from Copenhagen on Sunday, washed my clothes, repacked my bags and set off [...]
Categories: Travel,University
My father is an author. That’s him, top left, with his older brother, younger sister and mother. Before retirement, his job title was Typesetter, and he spent his whole adult life working with words. Other people’s words – but words nonetheless. At the beginning of 2007, he started blogging. We already knew he was a [...]
Categories: Family,New Zealand
I’ve had my first taste of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, and so far, it’s pretty overwhelming. I’ve already missed several of the bands I’d planned to see – and have been in to see a few more that caught my ear as I wandered around the city. I’m taking a bit of break back at [...]
Just been through the jazz festival programme with Christian, one of the organisers of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Together, we’ve managed to whittle the baffling array of 900 bands across 100 venues down to just 40 concerts over the next few days. Some of them are happening simultaneously, so it remains to be seen exactly [...]
Steve, Amran, Abi, Stef & Caro in a church hall in Salford Outside The Box @ Un-Convention Salford 2009 by Un-Convention This is the audio recording of the panel session I chaired at Un-Convention in Manchester last month. It was about music that falls outside the indie rock band tradition you’d normally expect represented at [...]
Categories: Music
I’m now officially allowed to be your PhD supervisor. I did a three-day training course run by the university on Friday last week, Tuesday and Wednesday this week – and having come out the other side of that, we’re all systems go. What’s your theoretical framework? My first two doctoral students turn up in September, [...]
Categories: Birmingham,University
Tagged: University
