Ard & Lykle at the New Music Labs office. I’m spending this morning working in the office of New Music Labs, Lopend Vuur and De Ondernemers – three inter-related businesses in online music, design and promotion based in Groningen in the North of Holland. I’m over here to consult and speak at the Academy of [...]
Categories: Travel
In the past week or so, I’ve spent a good deal of time in the company of some devout Christians. It’s not something I ordinarily do – not because I go out of my way to avoid them, I just don’t tend to move in those circles. Of course, when you start out not realising [...]
Categories: Travel
Monday was a bank holiday, and I’ve taken this rest of this week off work. Teaching came to an end last week, and I felt I was overdue a bit of a break. Besides, Jake has his GCSE exams on at the moment, but he gets this week as a study break, so I thought [...]
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On Saturday, I went around to visit Clutch, who has just become a father in the past week. I got to meet Donnie for the first time and do a bit of a catch-up with his dad. Seems like they’re doing really well – sleeping and eating’s all happening as it should. Well, it is [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music,Video
Tagged: Birmingham, Music, Personal, Video
Our friend Brendan has returned from his travels and many adventures, and is staying with us at the moment. Really cool to see him again. He arrived on Friday – and in the evening, we all went to the go-kart track for Juliet’s birthday celebration. It’s also Jake and Hannah’s first anniversary as a couple, [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Birmingham, Personal
I’ve had a bit of a cold over the weekend, and so of course everyone is claiming that I have swine flu. It’s possible, I guess – but it’s far more likely to be man flu. Swine flu, of course, has already claimed as many victims as Bird flu, the Millennium Bug and the Titanic [...]
Categories: Book
Tagged: Book, Personal, University
I know I’ve been travelling a fair bit recently – and I haven’t even said anything about Copenhagen here yet, which is where I was earlier in the week – but for reasons of procrastination, I needed to get out of the house today, and I remembered to get out my Flip camera this time. [...]
Categories: Travel
Categories: Birmingham,Video
Tagged: Birmingham, Personal, snow, Video
The x-ray reveals no broken jaw Jake was beaten up at school today. Over four and a half years, he’s been able to talk his way out of pretty much every scrape going – but this time, the whole thing was premeditated in a ‘Let’s get him!’ kind of way. He and his friends Omer [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Birmingham, Personal
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
