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
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. [...]
December by Jake Dubber Jake has just released the fourth of his series of albums from 2011. That’s it there. Have a listen. It’s a bit of a landmark, because it marks the end of a major project for him. The idea was that he would just collect together everything that he’d finished at the [...]
Tagged: Jake
There’s a tradition in our family. Whoever leaves home or moves to a new house gets ‘the tacky box’. The tacky box is just what it sounds like – a box full of stuff nobody really wants, but is actually kind of useful when you’re moving into a new place – especially if you’re just [...]
Categories: Family
Just thought I’d say a quick Merry Christmas before the yuletide activities kick off here in the Dubber house. A quiet one this time: friends over for dinner tonight, and then since Jake’s away in India and we Skyped today (he’ll have no internet for the next day or so), we’re probably going to eat [...]
Tagged: Christmas
This is a photo of my Grandmother, Ellen (Nellie) Dubber (née Dempsey), on the occasion of her 95th birthday, 1st January 2011. Behind her, left to right, are my father Chick, his sister Ann and brother Fred. She was born in Glasgow where she lived until she moved with her family to Auckland in the [...]
Categories: Family
I’ve been having conversations over the past 24 hours about the ‘value’ of social media. The social transparency and personal profile that this kind of medium affords is one of those things that crops up from time to time in articles such as this one in Techcrunch and this one in Music Think Tank – [...]
Categories: culture,Family,Music,Technology
Day 01 by Jake Dubber My son Jake is doing the AQA Baccalaureate at his college. It involves the usual A-levels (he’s doing Philosophy, Music Tech and English Language), an extra AS-level class in Critical Thinking, 100 hours of extra-curricular activities, and an extended project. The extended project can either be a 5000 word essay [...]
Tagged: AQA Baccalaureate, dubstep, Electronic, Jake
Relaxing is a serious business for Craig & Clutch Clutch and I decided it would be a good idea to host a whisky tasting in St Andrews during the Golf Open. Turns out it wasn’t, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have a good time. Not quite the generator of extra pocketmoney we were hoping [...]
Categories: Family,Travel,Whisky
Tagged: Clutch Daisy, Craig Hamilton, golf, Jake
