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 [...]
