I’ve been teaching music radio programming for a good few years now. All right, maybe it’s a decade. Or more. At any rate, it’s something that I really love doing and it’s something that I think there’s a real opportunity to have fun with, particularly given the technology available now. That said, it’s not as [...]
Tagged: Radio
My book Music in the Digital Age is a work in progress. It’s already available, but it’s being published as I write it over the course of this year. As of today, it’s being published in multiple languages as well. I’m trying to get it translated into as many languages as possible, and I have [...]
Categories: Book
Tagged: translation
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been encouraging Jake to update his website. He’s been so busy in India that he hasn’t really had time to blog, but he has his own domain (jakedubber.com) and web space, so we had a chat about what would be a useful thing to put there. What he’s ended [...]
Categories: Family,The Internet
Stumbling through YouTube on a Waitangi Day inspired trip down NZ music memory lane dug up this little gem. I had almost completely forgotten – but not long after this was filmed, I became the live sound engineer for The Warners and went on tour with them. If I recall correctly, it was the Satellite [...]
Categories: Music
As you’ll no doubt already know, it’s traditional to give generous gifts to New Zealanders on Waitangi Day*. New Zealander Taika Waititi is trying to get his film BOY screened in the United States. February 6th is Waitangi Day. I’ve just put those two things together and made a connection. BOY is a fantastic film, [...]
Categories: culture,New Zealand
Tagged: films
That’s a photo I just took of the Moon – and beneath it, Jupiter. Jupiter! I can see Jupiter with my eyes?! That’s incredible. Apparently our orbits are close at the moment. Even so, if we are at the closest it’s possible for the Earth and Jupiter to be to each other, it’s still 630 [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Space
Stephen Helebert and Stanley Hems from Johnstans Butchers, Kings Heath I popped into my local butcher shop this morning to pick up some lovely dry-cured bacon, and they were celebrating their big win: a Gold award for ‘Best Customer Service’ and Silver for ‘Best Window Display’ in the Kings Heath Business Association awards. Stanley Hems [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: kings heath
I thought I’d try out the brand new Soundcloud HTML-5 widget on one of Jake’s new tunes. Soundcloud is a tool that’s been invaluable to him as an independent electronic musician just starting out, and he’s had to upgrade a couple of levels (from Free to Lite to Solo) to accommodate his fairly prolific output. [...]
As you may have worked out by now, I’ve been working on a book that’s available for purchase as it’s being written. I’ve already had some lovely feedback about Music in the Digital Age (and some people have already pre-ordered the audiobook). So I started to think about whether there was anything else that would [...]
Categories: Book
Tagged: e-book, languages, translation
People are often surprised that I have an empty email inbox most of the time. Actually, it’s really not difficult. Of course, until I found out about the secret of having an empty inbox, I was completely overwhelmed all the time, and always had thousands of messages in various states of read, unread, filed or [...]
Categories: The Internet
Tagged: Productivity
