I have a book out from the library. It’s a little overdue. Actually, it’s about eight years overdue. I suspect they’ve cancelled my Auckland Public Library membership by now. The book is called ‘The Shoestring Pirates’ by Adrian Blackburn. It’s the true account (more or less) of four men who set sail to establish a [...]
Categories: Radio
Tagged: Auckland, Book, hauraki, New Zealand, Radio
If you like cats, or stories about cats – or if you just like stories – here’s a Christmas gift from me to you (and your kids, if you happen to have any). I made a ‘cartoon for radio’ about 15 years ago. It’s about cats – well, specifically about one cat, Ashley, who finds [...]
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About ten years ago – maybe a little more – I made some programmes for a Radio New Zealand series called Musical Chairs. Each programme focuses on a person who is very important in the world of New Zealand music. Usually it’s a musician, of course – but for me – one radio DJ had [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio
Tagged: documentary
Continuing along the thread of digitally archiving the radio programmes and jazz sessions I did in the 1990s, I’ve started digitising the series Ashley’s Worlds – a “cartoon for radio” that was syndicated on 26 stations around New Zealand on Sunday morning kids’ radio programmes. It’s been fun to hear them again. It was an [...]
Categories: Radio
Tagged: archive
Ruth Daniel and I were interviewed about Unconvention on Tom Robinson’s show on BBC 6Music. If you’re quick, you can listen to it on iPlayer from about 44mins in.
Tagged: London, unconvention
Photo by YlvaS I’ve been thinking a great deal about radio over the past few weeks. After having done the conference keynote in Auckland, a number of things have lined up to bring me back into that world, after a good five or so years being only peripherally involved at best. I’ve been asked to [...]
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I spent the last few weeks in Auckland. There was an international academic conference about radio, and I was the opening keynote speaker, which was a real honour. You can download the text of my speech here as a PDF if you’re interested, complete with the images that I used as slides. It was great [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio
Keynote speech at Like Minds, Exeter (photo by Harry Duns) I’ve been doing more and more public speaking over the last year or so, and it’s showing little sign of slowing down. I have a couple of upcoming keynote speeches that I’m really excited about over the next month – one music industry event, and [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio,Travel,University
Tagged: Auckland, brazil, Conference, Keynote, Speech
While I was in Helsinki, I was interviewed by Radio New Zealand National‘s Saturday Morning host Kim Hill. The pretext was that Finland had just been declared best country in the world to live in, and since I was a New Zealander who just happened to be there, I was on the radio for quarter [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Radio,Travel
I’ve decided to move my weekly ‘Sunday Jazz‘ Spotify playlist here to my personal blog. My life’s fragmented enough as it is, and I thought that one extra blog post a week wouldn’t clutter this already busy blog too much. If you haven’t come across this before, essentially the idea is that it’s like a [...]
