Photo by Toban Black I was sent a report by the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Institutes) last week about how the record business is so important and must be protected because – after all, who else is going to invest in new artists and new music? Here’s a PDF link if you’re interested. I’ve [...]
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My own record shop 0
I’ve always wanted to have a record shop. I don’t want to sell the music, necessarily – I just like the idea of being surrounded by all those records, talking to the people who come in about albums I like, listening to music, reading books during the quiet times – and maybe having bands do [...]
Categories: Business,Music,New Zealand
Tagged: Business, Music, New Zealand
Unpopular in Helsinki 6
River of ice outside the hotel I’ve spent the last few days in Helsinki at a music industry conference called Is This It. Since I’m not that great at mingling (or at least, slow to start), I brought my laptop down to the first networking breakfast session on Friday. Coffee and email, while people settled [...]
The last days of Jibbering 4
Click to play Today, I went to Jibbering Records in Moseley for probably the last time. They close in a week – but I’m off to NZ on Monday evening, and unless I get a chance to pop in during the day on Monday for one final cafetiere and a browse through the Funk bin, [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Music,Video
Tagged: Birmingham, Business, Music, Video
Twhisky and Twavel 2
After the relatively slow start to 2009, and the lovely, restful Christmas break, I’ve started organising things for the year, and as I start booking things in, it looks like a pretty busy one. In fact… the past week or so has meant a rapid takeoff in the amount of work and travel I’ve been [...]
Categories: Book,Business,Music,New Zealand,Whisky
Tagged: Book, Business, Internet, Music, New Zealand, Seminar, Whisky
Top 100 albums of 2008? No idea. 4
David McInerney, Tom Arnott, Adam Regan and me – after a spectacularly successful DJ gig at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath I often do top 10 or 20 lists (and sometimes even top 100 lists) of music from the year gone by. I generally spend quite a bit of time over this, and then [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Music,New Zealand,Travel,Whisky
Tagged: 2008, Birmingham, Business, Internet, Music, New Zealand, Personal, research, review, Seminar, Travel, University, web, Whisky
Granting wishes 1
We’ve been working so hard on getting I So Wish up and running, that we thought we’d have a bit of fun. Stef grabbed the camera, and we met in Birmingham to actually go grant a wish. I So Wish user Benjaminbrum wished that someone would bring him cake at his office on Monday morning [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business
Tagged: Birmingham, Business, cake, isowish, wish
Still looking for the perfect graduate 0
Looking for someone smart and motivated I’ve had quite a few enquiries about my graduate intern opportunity, and I’m going to be closing the doors on applications very soon. The first day I’m conducting interviews is Monday next week and I have some great candidates lined up. However, I seem to getting people mainly from [...]
Categories: Business
Tagged: Business, Employment, Interview, Marketing and Advertising, Public relations
The Graduate Intern 3
If you’ve ever had anything to do with me at all, you’ll know that I have a number of websites and projects in various stages of development. Some of those projects are taking up more of my attention because they’re more immediately successful, and others need more energy and attention than I have to spare. [...]
Categories: Business
Tagged: Business
How to make wishes 2
Phase two of the I So Wish website is now complete. I had the idea and Stef made the site in a day (as he explains here). Then I wrote an e-book in a day and we put it up for sale on the site. Writing the e-book was an interesting process. It’s the fastest [...]