Mark Roach, John Peel and me – photo by Paul Kennedy Back when I was still a radio lecturer in Auckland, we had news that John Peel was coming to town, and so I made efforts to try and get him to come in and give a guest lecture to my third-year class. To my [...]
Categories: Music
A place to sleep I’ve been travelling a good deal recently, and I’ve decided to do my best to avoid flying within Europe – partly for environmental reasons, but also because I like trains, and I love the journey itself. I’ve also been making a point of couchsurfing rather than staying in hotels – and [...]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: couchsurfing, ferry, train
I was asked today if I would be able to make up a playlist of songs that are around the tempo of Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da by the Beatles – as that was a great song to go walking to. Turns out that’s around 113 beats per minute. So armed with a bit of technology, I went [...]
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Over the past few days I’ve been in Salford (that’s right next door to Manchester) at an Un-Convention event. As usual, some amazing people talking about some really cool stuff – great music in the evenings (and through the day, actually) and good times with some of my favourite people. There were a few missing [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: salford, unconvention
